From: Ace on
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 06:14:43 -0700 (PDT), "TOG(a)Toil"
<totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>On 20 Apr, 13:21, Malc <malwh...(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

>> And then there's the chicken and the first snow of winter situation.
>> They wander down the ramp from their hutch, put one foot in the snow
>> then stop, lift up the foot and stare at it in amazement.
>>
>Heh. Our cats did that.

Ours love to play in it. Snowballs are great to chase, and there's
always somewhere to hide.

From: Wicked Uncle Nigel on
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Veggie Dave
<Veggie~Dave(a)127.0.0.1> typed
>Wicked Uncle Nigel <wun(a)wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> wrote the following
>literary masterpiece:
>>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.
>
>So, they're not *that* stupid then...

Oh no. She wouldn't want to get her feet all cold. Not when there's a
doting owner to fetch and carry.

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

I've always been a man who's open to persuasion
From: ginge on
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:49:39 +0100, Wicked Uncle Nigel
<wun(a)wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> wrote:

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

You could name them even if you were to eat them:
Colonel, Fillet, Zinger and Nugget.
From: Hog on
J�r�my <a(a)b.com> wrote:
> "Hog" <sm911SPAM(a)CHIPShotmail.co.uk> wrote in news:hqk7j7$3a0$1
> @news.eternal-september.org:
>
>>> 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.
>
> My gf has been collecting names for hens for years, in the hope that
> one day I'll consent to having some hens to attach them to.

Have you tried collecting names for multiple girlfriends?

--
Hog


From: Champ on
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:54:57 +0100, "Hog"
<sm911SPAM(a)CHIPShotmail.co.uk> wrote:

>>> Good Ged they give them names too.
>>
>> My gf has been collecting names for hens for years, in the hope that
>> one day I'll consent to having some hens to attach them to.

>Have you tried collecting names for multiple girlfriends?

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