Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

lostinrates

fc123 wrote: »

Generally, their only predator round here is the car. One of the babies is bound get run over at some point.

Peacocks must grow so quickly as they are huge when adult.

Dumb question...if they hatch from an incubated egg (so don't have a mother to feed them) do you have to do all the feeding from day 1? How do you do it?

They take a long time to grow. My neighbours' are a year old and immature....they are the right size now, but don't have the colours or tails yet.

I'm hoping a chicken hen will adopt them if I slide them under her on hatching. Its a bit of a gamble, so it might all go tits up and leave me with nothing.

Its not that they need feeding like garden brds, but they need to learn by watching from a mamma bird, about all things in life.

lostinrates

fc123 wrote: »

I always feel sooo surburban confessing my fondeness for the foxes we have.?

don't. Its a misconception that country people, even hunting people all hate foxes. some do. Most like them. Its a question of balance and numbers though usually. And health and damage. we have a fox here, but only seen it twice. If we have losses to it I will have to shoot (or allow hunt through, but shooting would be preferable). If we had as many as you have we would be running closer to that time where our animals being in trouble was more likely

michaels

FC - don't know if you do children's clothes but if you did and my three could model them for you I think it would make the best day out for them (and their mum) ever. (I hope this isn't where I find out that you do Ann Summers type clothes and cue much embarrassment all round)

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

FC - don't know if you do children's clothes but if you did and my three could model them for you I think it would make the best day out for them (and their mum) ever. (I hope this isn't where I find out that you do Ann Summers type clothes and cue much embarrassment all round)

Suppose their mummy did the modelling?

lostinrates

re hating things, I should be hating these bats, but we're stting here watching them swooping against the sky, chasing each other, doing arial acrobatics, and who can complain. You'd pay a fortune to see people do this in planes, and it wouldn't be half as magical.

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

don't. Its a misconception that country people, even hunting people all hate foxes. some do. Most like them. Its a question of balance and numbers though usually. And health and damage. we have a fox here, but only seen it twice. If we have losses to it I will have to shoot (or allow hunt through, but shooting would be preferable). If we had as many as you have we would be running closer to that time where our animals being in trouble was more likely

Interesting that 6 foxes here don't feel like a lot but surburban foxes would pick off chickens/rabbits too.....don't think anyone round here owns chickens though. We are in woodland so they don't feel so surburban.
I am sure our local council don't allow anyone to kill them (poison/traps etc) but not 100% on that. A lot of people don't like them though.

michaels wrote: »

FC - don't know if you do children's clothes but if you did and my three could model them for you I think it would make the best day out for them (and their mum) ever. (I hope this isn't where I find out that you do Ann Summers type clothes and cue much embarrassment all round)

Ann summers.....I wouldn't say that but they are very....um...adult.
It does depend on how the wearer styles herself (heels or flats, loadsa slap or not and so on) as to how they come over.
I don't intend my work to be seen as slutty at all but it could be seen as being on the line sometimes.

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

They take a long time to grow. My neighbours' are a year old and immature....they are the right size now, but don't have the colours or tails yet.

I'm hoping a chicken hen will adopt them if I slide them under her on hatching. Its a bit of a gamble, so it might all go tits up and leave me with nothing.

Its not that they need feeding like garden brds, but they need to learn by watching from a mamma bird, about all things in life.

So if the chicken doesn't take to them and show them how to peck and so on, they won't survive?
Our baby blue tits are useless...they just sit on the branch and tweet and moan until the mother puts something in their mouth.
Ms Fox was showing baby fox how to jump up to the plum tree to shake the early fruit down but baby just ignored her and set about sniffing out cat biccies (that just happened to be in the grass )

lostinrates wrote: »

re hating things, I should be hating these bats, but we're stting here watching them swooping against the sky, chasing each other, doing arial acrobatics, and who can complain. You'd pay a fortune to see people do this in planes, and it wouldn't be half as magical.

I like watching our bats.... they are so fast.
They live in a folly just behind our house.

lostinrates

fc123 wrote: »

So if the chicken doesn't take to them and show them how to peck and so on, they won't survive?

No, if she doesn't take them I enter a summer of drudgery do it myself

edit: my biggest fear is I ''foul ip'' the swap over and she panicks and kills them. That's not so unheard of putting chickens under a hen, and these will feel different to her eggs, being so much bigger.

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

No, if she doesn't take them I enter a summer of drudgery do it myself

how do you do it? A pippet?

I just did the colour hue test and scored 46 which isn't good considering my day job.:o

lostinrates

fc123 wrote: »

how do you do it? A pippet?

no, just sprinkling and sprinkling, picking them up dipping their beaks in. they are physically capable but need to be shown how. Its the same with hen chicks, but a bigger responsibility with these as they are more dependant for longer AIUI. chickens pick it up in minutes, I'm told these guys take weeks. We'll see!

Anyway, I'll still be squealingly exciting if they hatch. I'm not sure they will.