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Subject: [OM] Re: OT "feral", was #100
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 12:35:25 +0100
AndrewF

When you are ready, please send me instructions (off-List would  
probably be best).

I do look them in the eye sometimes and I know what you mean ;-)

Cheers

Chris

~~ >-)-
C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
+44 (0)7092 251126
www.threeshoes.co.uk
homepage.mac.com/zuiko


On 27 May 2006, at 11:23, Andrew Fildes wrote:

> A red fox is native in the UK and exotic here. Foxes have been
> domesticated - after a few generations of careful selection for
> 'tame' characteristics they make good pets, apparently. They even
> take on the characteristics of domestic dogs in that they come into
> season twice per year instead of once. If you want to keep one, you'd
> need to have a careful eye on it and no sense of smell - the odour of
> a dog fox in season is quite overpowering.
> Your chickens suspect that you are a fox - simple. Do you have red
> hair,  smell bad and, er...how often are you in season? Seriously,
> most chooks do not like being picked up unless they are very
> accustomed to it and their feet and wings are well held. If you wish,
> I'll provide full instructions on how to hypnotise the blighters. A
> truly feral chicken would look more like a large bantam and would lay
> around 30 eggs per year rather than 270 or so.
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> (look into the eye of the chook - see the dinosaur!)


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