So my mate Carl had recently moved out into the country, and was extolling the virtues of rural living.
"For instance," says Carl, "we get our breakfast eggs from the woman across the road."
"How interesting," says I. "We get ours from chickens."
(True story. Ask Carl.)
Chris
Made me smile, and almost laugh out loud (lol for the kids amongst us)
Most eggcellent :D
Get my eggs from the chicken shed.....If the dogs don't thieve them first ! >:(
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 18 May 2015, 03:04:08 PM
Get my eggs from the chicken shed.....If the dogs don't thieve them first ! >:(
Cheers - Phil
crows, gulls and otters try to nick mine... I now send the kids in early to beat them all to it :)
One of our hens has taken to egg eating. Swear she must sit right behind the layers and grab 'em on the way out as I just can't get out early enough to catch her half the time!
Quote from: toxicpixie on 18 May 2015, 03:18:58 PM
One of our hens has taken to egg eating. Swear she must sit right behind the layers and grab 'em on the way out as I just can't get out early enough to catch her half the time!
Time to put her in the pot
She only just came through a nasty chest infection, so no :P
We're not at the industrial level of egg production with only three girls left :D
Quote from: toxicpixie on 19 May 2015, 08:06:56 AM
She only just came through a nasty chest infection, so no :P
Thats very caring of you - the cat has only got to sneeze and i am offering to give her a lead suppository with the 12 bore! :-q
That's one way to save on vets bills!
Quote from: toxicpixie on 19 May 2015, 08:06:56 AM
She only just came through a nasty chest infection, so no :P
Pixie...
Have you ever had to make one of your chickens 'throw up' because of 'sour crop' ?
YUK !! :-& :-&
Cheers - Phil
I've never had that pleasure, fortunately! But others of my acquaintance have, and I have had to feed pills to them on occasion. That's an interesting few days.
Worse than dosing a reluctant cat?
It certainly felt that way... fortunately the largest of the pills looked a bit like a beetle to her (I think) so went down quite well...
Quote from: FierceKitty on 20 May 2015, 08:51:21 AM
Worse than dosing a reluctant cat?
Nightmare of the first order...even with the moggie bundled up in a towel!
Don't I know it!
As long as the pills weren't too enormous..... We used to con our cats into gulping them down by either wrapping them in 'softish' cheese, a piece of cooked chicken, or a prawn.
Worked 9 times out of 10. :)
There's also a plastic 'wossname' that we got from the vets, that pushes the pill to the back of the cat's throat and releases said pill, without having to put your fingers in the sod's mouth.
You'd probably still need to wrap the cat in a towel, though. ;) ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
I always get the job of holding her or giving her the medicine and fortunately our cat is a bit wary of me ( I don't know why :-\ :d)
So she just lets me get on with it
You should, (or shouldn't!), hear the goings on when trying to clip a geet big, hairy, Alsatian dogs' talons. The fight between 'Tommy Brock and Mr. Todd' has nowt on it. Crashings and bangings, snarls and growls...and that is mainly ME! :'(
THAT sounds fun, HH. X_X
Have you tried getting a 'trank' from your vets, and slipping it in his/her food ?
Might work, and make life a bit easier. :-\
Have to admit, clipping claws is not one of my favourite tasks.
It's not that the labs go too silly.....It's because I worry about going too far back on the claw and hitting 'the quick'
Fortunately, it tends to be just their dew claws that need sorting out from time to time...not the whole 'set'.
Cheers - Phil
My Ex wife used to need her talons sorting - Not that I would try :D