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Come Inside... => The Snug => Topic started by: Berek on July 04, 2008, 02:58:24 PM
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in a couple of weeks I am taking delivery of a couple of hens. Do you think the dog will kill them ?? also what do I feed them ??
I plan to eat them in a couple of months
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I thought most people keep them for the eggs rather than to eat. rubschin:
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i'm going to have eggs for a couple of months then i'm going to eat them.. this decision is final
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Beware of the fox!
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do bats eat chickens ?? we have one in our attic ! scared2:
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Not the belfrey then? ;)
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Strange as this may sound Berek but Chickens eat CORN + anything they can grub up in your garden (Slugs, worms etc are particular favourites). Boiled potato peelings and other stuff mixed with "chicken mash" helps and they need grit (to form the egg shells) Speak to whoever you are getting them from about feeding. They also drink a lot of water.
OR at least ours did when we kept them and I doubt that chickens have changed their habits much over the 55 years since I use to feed them.
AND yes your dog will probably chase and kill them given the chance.
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Strange as this may sound Berek but Chickens eat CORN + anything they can grub up in your garden (Slugs, worms etc are particular favourites). Boiled potato peelings and other stuff mixed with "chicken mash" helps and they need grit (to form the egg shells) Speak to whoever you are getting them from about feeding. They also drink a lot of water.
OR at least ours did when we kept them and I doubt that chickens have changed their habits much over the 55 years since I use to feed them.
AND yes your dog will probably chase and kill them given the chance.
I have nothing to add.
Except, there will be foxes even where you are, and they are very persistent.
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Except, there will be foxes even where you are, and they are very persistent.
Exactly. (see above)
They wreaked havoc with my sister's Buff Orpingtons and eventually killed the lot in spite of the wire.
When she first told me she was going to see the Buff Orpingtons I assumed it was yet another chapter in her hectic social whirl involving drinks and finger food redface:
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Have you considered a crocodile?
The foxes wouldn't bother it
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http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080704/tod-switzerland-animals-offbeat-7f81b96.html (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080704/tod-switzerland-animals-offbeat-7f81b96.html)
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I have a niece who lives in Switzerland. She tells me that they are very strict about obeying local byelaws and have no hesitation in "reporting" infringements, even by their firends and relatives.
There are, of course, byelaws about how close to housing one may keep chickens in the UK too ~ I wonder if Berek has thought this through rubschin:
Apart from foxes they also tend to attract rats, who will scavenge any food the hens do not consume ...... expect trouble from the neighbours Berek.
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http://www.gardenpoultry.cwc.net/ftpk1.htm (http://www.gardenpoultry.cwc.net/ftpk1.htm)
A friend of mine was arrested in Switezarland for some piffling traffic offence. I think it was something to do with his windscreen wipers rubschin:
He was subjected to an array of psychometric tests and a machine was produced which tested his hand eye co-ordination.
His licence was confiscated. noooo:
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Yes ~ The niece tells me that hanging out washing on a Sunday will get you a visit from the neighbourhood policeman and a fine, as will any number of other very minor infringements of what seem to be extraordinarily complicated byelaws.
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I recall something about lawnmower restrictions too..........
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All that said she steadfastly refuses to return to live in the UK but I suppose after almost twenty years she is used to their way of life. When she does visit she finds the UK a "filthy place". She delights me by speaking a sort of fractured English whilst retaining her Dorset accent. There must be a lot of Dorset sounding Swiss as she has spent much of her time there teaching English to pre-school children.
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Buy some Geese too - they can be the chickens minders.
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He could get a donkey too cloud9: .And some goats.
ON second thoughts, praps not
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He can borrow my shotgun?
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scared2:
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I intend to call my chickens Marks and Spencer.. speaking of which hurry over to my M&S thread in the restaurant
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But they are boys' names rubschin:
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But they are boys' names rubschin:
doesnt matter to me, they wont know that like
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doh:
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Kosher Hens? whistle:
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Kosher Hens? whistle:
I'll need to get an Imam to bless them whistle:
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Kosher Hens? whistle:
I'll need to get an Imam to bless them whistle:
That's Halal Banghead
For Kosher you need a Rabbi but the original Mr Marks and Mr Spencer were Jewish which was why I asked. censored:
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I was joking, with reference to this years Apprentice, in which the candidates asked a muslim to bless a chicken whistle:
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There are only three of us here. Nick doesn't have a TV and I never watch one. evil:
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He could get a donkey too cloud9: .And some goats.
ON second thoughts, praps not
George Melly on goats:
"There is something very un-English about goats. It's not only that there aren't many of them, it's their pagan eyes, either milky-blue or honey-yellow, with their elongated pupils, and their extraordinary smell, and the way their skeletons are so functional, so in evidence, with the flesh draped on the bones like heavy material."
Curiously ~ I had just read that when I read your post.
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http://www.theonion.com/content/video/genetic_scientists_develop_sheep (http://www.theonion.com/content/video/genetic_scientists_develop_sheep)
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I may have to rethink this one. I just discovered that Kay Burley also keeps chickens.
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Well? What about these chickens then?
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Well? What about these chickens then?
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Berek Jr, in the kitchen, with the baseball bat?
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Berek Jr, in the kitchen, with the baseball bat?
Berek... in the garden... axe....
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Wonder what he did with the giblets rubschin:
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I bet that Berek O'Bummer in the States is kind to chickens as well.
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Wonder what he did with the giblets rubschin:
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