From: Wicked Uncle Nigel on
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ
<news(a)champ.org.uk> typed
>On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:10:50 +0100, Wicked Uncle Nigel
><wun(a)wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> wrote:
>
>>Our chickens are much more for amusement than food, to be fair.
>>They make me laugh, and that's all that really matters.
>
>Chickens serve the same purpose as UKRM, eh?

In so many ways.

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From: TOG on
On 20 Apr, 12:19, Wicked Uncle Nigel <w...(a)wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk>
wrote:
> Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ
> <n...(a)champ.org.uk> typed
>
> >On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:10:50 +0100, Wicked Uncle Nigel
> ><w...(a)wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> wrote:
>
> >>Our chickens are much more for amusement than food, to be fair.
> >>They make me laugh, and that's all that really matters.
>
> >Chickens serve the same purpose as UKRM, eh?
>
> In so many ways.
>
Have to say, this is one of the more entertaining threads I've seen
this year. We should have copied in the Sheddi early on: I bet loads
of the Sheddi keep chickens.
From: Krusty on
TOG(a)Toil wrote:

> On 20 Apr, 12:19, Wicked Uncle Nigel <w...(a)wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk>
> wrote:
> > Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ
> > <n...(a)champ.org.uk> typed
> >
> > > On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:10:50 +0100, Wicked Uncle Nigel
> > ><w...(a)wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > > Our chickens are much more for amusement than food, to be fair.
> > > > They make me laugh, and that's all that really matters.
> >
> > > Chickens serve the same purpose as UKRM, eh?
> >
> > In so many ways.
> >
> Have to say, this is one of the more entertaining threads I've seen
> this year. We should have copied in the Sheddi early on: I bet loads
> of the Sheddi keep chickens.

It wouldn't be entertaining if the Sheddi were involved, it'd be
killfiled!

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Krusty
From: ogden on
Krusty wrote:
> TOG(a)Toil wrote:
>
> > Have to say, this is one of the more entertaining threads I've seen
> > this year. We should have copied in the Sheddi early on: I bet loads
> > of the Sheddi keep chickens.
>
> It wouldn't be entertaining if the Sheddi were involved, it'd be
> killfiled!

Too right.

If I wanted to read uk.rec.sheds, I would. But I don't, so I don't.
Dullard central.

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From: Wicked Uncle Nigel on
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Hog
<sm911SPAM(a)CHIPShotmail.co.uk> typed
>Wicked Uncle Nigel <wun(a)wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> wrote:
>>
>> One of ours, name of Delia, stands at the entrance to the run and
>> squawks loudly until someone picks her up and carries her to any
>> sheltered piece of uncovered ground where she scratches around quite
>> happily until the others return to the run. She then squawks loudly
>> until someone picks her up and carries her back.
>
>Good Ged they give them names too.

But of course. Since we are not going to eat them, they have names:
Delia, Honey, Heather, Pearl and Prudence.


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Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

I've always been a man who's open to persuasion