Daydream thread continues.....

choille

Did he have a shock? I came back one day & noticed mine & couldn't work it out - why...but he slowly got better. His eye was closed for over a week - I think.

My big Lavender Orp Cockerel Dame Edna, always sounded chesty, bu they are prone to heart defects & he did conk out, but I think it was about the badger rampage time & think he'd got a shock as the house was all scratched as if it'd tried the house & poor beautiful Dame edna was as dead as a door post when I went to let them out in the morning. But I think he was an accident waiting to happen genetically - somedays he looked more purple about the wattles & he had the rattling, breathing thing going on.

alfie_1

ah ! you may have cracked it, i had a buzzard circling yesterday when i went out and he was like it when i got back ??
ive never had a buzz take anything tho, they seem to be a tad put off by my big "F off" eagle owl in his enclosure !!:D
mind you i couldnt find one hen tonite and shes prone to wandering up the track shes always turned up next morning tho as i know she roosts in the roof of my garage... NOTHING else can get in there !:D so hopefully she will turn up tomorow

choille

Oh, I do hope she does come back. We have buzzards & eagles sometimes quartering the croft & I've never lost a hen to one either but the warning noise the cockerels make when they spy owt big in the sky is amazing ....especially when the helicopter goes over......

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Didnt Gino De-Campo, catch/cook/eat rat on I;m a celeb a few years back? and get done for animal cruelty?

I think...as we have an abuntance sp? of food around use, we choose what we get, and say we would not eat this or that etc.....BUT... in reality i think our answers would be different if we were in a position, of proper starvation etc...Surely our instincts would kick in... and then would eat anything to survive..

Its all about mind over matter.... which has been proved with hubby in the butchers...

The butcher had some samples on the counter, so hubby took a piece, and he said it was lovely.... when hubby asked what it was....and the butcher told him it was tongue, hubby gagged and nearly threw up..... but yet a minute previously he was quite happy to munch away on it..

Its like years ago.... Rabbits were not pets, they were caught/raised for food, and they were a common place on the food table, but now....very few people eat them, and only think of them as pets, me included, i bought a rabbit from the butchers a few years back, to try and use diff ingrediants, but i just could not face cooking/eating it:o

Its is similar to batt hens now.............. years ago, when batt hens factories, re-stocked every 18 months, the lorry would come in the night, they would clear out the shed, and the chickens then used to go to the slaughter house, and the meat used to ne 'pie' grade etc..but now..... our 'pies' fastfood, ready meal, cooked formed chicken is imported mainly from thailand, which by all accounts has a very low standard of animal welfare etc...flip they will be doing ex dairy cows next...I can see the charitable website now..

Have you got room to re-home daisy the ex-dairy cow? to save her from being slaughtered for meat:eek:..she will be a great asset for you garden, and wouldnt cost that much more than a large dog to keep:rotfl:

right a think a cuppa is in order, before i totally lose the plot ( think that happened years ago)

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

right a think a cuppa is in order, before i totally lose the plot ( think that happened years ago)

I think you're very far from losing the plot and I agree with most of the above.

On the subject of rabbit, I had a very soppy, sentimental girlfriend at college, who liked all things fluffy.....

Soooo.... one weekend, I cooked her a 'chicken stew,' which she thought truly delicious . Of course, it was bunny wabbit.

Says a lot for said girlfriend that she still writes every Christmas. :A

lostinrates

Rabbit is good. Ctc, i suggest buying some jointed and having another go. Fwiw i have also eaten horse.

I have NO opposition to certain species beoing eaten, its just a matter of rearing, husbandry, transport and slaughter for me. I have also eaten donkey and turtle. I love beef, and adore cows. i have allsorts of things i would not want to eat again in a sort of diplomatic situation, where one just has to eat and smile and swallow retches.

What i won't eat by choice is down to squeamishesness and ethis pf husbandry, not a belief somethings are meat and some aren't. Tbh, my belief system / 'religion' is such that were it legal and safe which it is not!,i would rather be eaten by my nearest and dearest than buried in the ground at expence, or burned at ecological expence. Its a bit of a joke, one of my nicknames sounds a bit like a particular pork dim sum, and we joke thats what i will be when i croak.

Well dreamers, you would not believe it but when i put mush done for the birds this morning all these little faces, ex batt and own flock, looked at me with intense disappointment, then bang bang the cream legbarr...once my star clicker trained bird, kicked the yogurt pot from yesterday. I told them they might get more tomorrow if the ex batts need it, but they looked like they reqlly wanted it now. They were all up before i got there, and so met me at the door, as if they had been waiting overnight for their yoghurt breakfast!

COOLTRIKERCHICK

LIR... and would you like to acompanied by, mint sauce, horseradish oe apple sauce, maybe with a bit of side salad, or would you like to eat with a boiled veg and gravy?:D

Do you ever look back and realise how much money you have squandered on stupid silly things? especially when you wish you had more money in the bank now for things?

I look back now and keep on thinking if only i didnt buy that, or waste my money on this etc......I might not be running round making my self sick trying to get some pennies in:o maybe i should have started by not having kids... flip i would def be rich now:rotfl:( only joking, but they do drain the money, and all you get back is grief, cheek and worry...lol.....)

lostinrates

The hollies are finally in! Davesnave, i wonder if any of your red poppy seeds are still available?

I am hoping to find enough money in my bank acc at the end of the month to buy a quince tree....

Itismehonest

When I was young my Grandma still had the rabbit hutches behind her house from keeping & breeding them to eat during the war.
We could live on rabbit 365 as it's like ruddy Watership Down here. We'd probably never have to buy meat again :rotfl:
Unfortunately, it's one meat I really struggle with & have done since school. My father used to love it & I can still remember the smell of it cooking - wild rabbit is quite strong in both flavour & aroma.

LIR, the boyds are gonna have to learn they don't need their medicine everyday or your feed & bedding bill will go through the roof

How's the old boy today, alfie? As Choille said, some can recover from a stroke. Just like humans, I guess, it depends on the severity.

Sunshine here today I'm debating whether it's warm enough to start fishing around in ponds (I do it from the outside it's poor DH who has to don the waders) to tidy the various plants. It's always amaziing how bloomin' cold the running spring water can be - brrrrrr
I love the sight & sound of running water but have to admit I'm not so keen on the feel after an hour or so of having your arms in it. Hands & arms come out all shrivelled up :rotfl:

RAS

lostinrates wrote: »

I have NO opposition to certain species beoing eaten, its just a matter of rearing, husbandry, transport and slaughter for me. I have also eaten donkey and turtle. I love beef, and adore cows. i have allsorts of things i would not want to eat again in a sort of diplomatic situation, where one just has to eat and smile and swallow retches.

There are a number of Chinese dishes that I would find a bit of a problem.

I was on a little island in the far north of Norway one winter when I was given the same brunch as the workers who had come to mend the harbour wall.

It was very nice - a bit like pyttpanna but I did not recognise the meat. When I asked what it was my host's excellent English suddenly became rather poor.

I realised later that it was probably whale or some such?? I would not choose to eat it but it was nice whatever it was.