the daydream fund challenge thread

choille

Temps plummeted again & massive hail stones - weird up & down weather fronts.

Just threw a pan of (cold) peelings over the babies - young Orpingtons. They are running around chasing each other trying to grab a peeling when there's loads on the ground. The things you do when you live in a caravn to entertain yourself!
Didn't mean to do it....honestly.

lostinrates

choille wrote: »

Once got a skin back that had a hole in - like a bullet hole? Weird.............

careless/poorly timed plucking? I tear skin a bit when plucking sometimes.

lostinrates

alfie...that's sucha nice post. I can only reply I too feel such friendship from this thread, and total delight in having you as a ''real life'' chum too.

Merry Christmas everybody

Rummer

Hello Everyone!

Hope you all have a lovely festive season and that your animals give you a reasonable day of rest :rotfl:

choille

careless/poorly timed plucking? I tear skin a bit when plucking sometimes.

I meant a lamb carcass back from the slaughter house.

We kill/pluck our own poultry & I often do tear the skin too.

No, one lamb skin had a hole in it that I got back a few years ago. It was a Shetland's & I couldn't work out why it had a hole in it.

lostinrates

weather report:

so mild I didn't bother to take the chill of the bed with elecytric blanket last night and lay without the swaddling of two duvets on top, but instead relaxed under the bedding not tucked in all round. today its still milkd, but still grim grey and the windchill is pulling temps down a lot.
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the hunt are coming past next week, and this weather makes it very difficult, not only are our animals going to churn everything up, but two horses are in their lightest rugs, so I can't swap them down a level for the day so they risk sweating and shilling uder rugs, or, instead what I'll do is leave them naked: so I'll have muddy horses to brush off late wednesday night. the old girls both have lighter rugs to wear, thank goodness.

lostinrates

choille wrote: »

careless/poorly timed plucking? I tear skin a bit when plucking sometimes.

I meant a lamb carcass back from the slaughter house.

We kill/pluck our own poultry & I often do tear the skin too.

No, one lamb skin had a hole in it that I got back a few years ago. It was a Shetland's & I couldn't work out why it had a hole in it.

as was clear if I had been reading properly my computer is on the blink and I'm reading breakneck speed before it crashes again

Itismehonest

Wet, miserable & doesn't seem to have got light all day ...... in fact, pretty normal weather for round here

In case I don't get another chance before the day, I'd like to wish all daydreamers a very happy Christmas & a healthy & prosperous 2012.
:beer::santa2:

Davesnave

We finally found a guinea fowl in Barnstaple (where it was also lashing down) along with a few jars of home-made stuff and 2lbs of laver. We took the van because it needed a run, but the only place we're allowed to park that is half a mile from the shops. :mad:

Arrived home to find a brace of pheasants tied to the door handle. I expect we shall find out from whence they came in due course. Wherever it was, they're not long dead.

lostinrates

I've been trying to think of new things to do with pheasant, and might try a sort of stirfry in the NY. We saw some neighbours shooting earlier and I said to dh..''make sure we close the curtains and shutters EARLY today''. for one thing the freezer the size of a small country is groaningly full....some thing I have to start working on soon. I never thought we'd fill it, now I guess some stuff at the bottom has freezer burn...