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    What is your favorite quote?

    "life is what happens when your busy making other plans" - John Lennon
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    What is your favorite quote?

    red sky at night shepherds delight, red sky in the morning shepherds warning. cornish version. red sky at night, barns on fire...............red sky in the morning, its still burnin.
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    What is your favorite quote?

    if your dog thinks your the best person in the world dont ask for a second opinion. every man has to believe in something.
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    Soft Shelled Egg Questions

    not an expert but have had a couple of hens lay thier first two or three eggs with soft shells, they started laying hard eggs after a couple of days. as for eating them, i did and i am still here.
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    Seriously thinking of Homeschooling my Daughter

    Quote: nails, heads and the hitting of come to mind.
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    Seriously thinking of Homeschooling my Daughter

    now home schooling is something i know a little about. (showy offy bit) my son is 12 has been home schooled since he was 9. done the following gcse's (taken by 16 year olds if in school) history-c maths-b english-b physics-a geography-d and has just finished the first year of a maths degree...
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    She's Ugly But Sweet..

    shes not ugly. if you want to see ugly i can send you a picture of me.
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    Please help, what could have done this??? **GRAPHIC PICS**

    Quote: not an expert but some hawks eat crows according to my book. old cd's hanging from string are what all the gamekeepers use to discourage hawks anything shiny and moving causing them to glint in the sun, i had a problem in my pheasant pen last year and used some of those little plastic...
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    mystery of the missing chickens.

    Quote: now have an electric fence arround the pen as well, lets hope they cant work out how to unclip the battery leads.
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    mystery of the missing chickens.

    many thanks for all your replies. i think i have identified the problem. yesterday i put a nice heavy duty 1 inch mesh net over the pen and then went and hid in the top of the barn (well armed just in case) about an hour later a large goshawk landed in a tree next to the chicken pen. so...
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    mystery of the missing chickens.

    nzpouter...........LOL. congrats on hosting the world cup. in 95 mins you should have beaten tonga.
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    mystery of the missing chickens.

    would a decent heavy nylon mesh as a roof solve a cat problem?
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    mystery of the missing chickens.

    thanks for all the replies. if its a buzzard then i guess keeping them in the run and whacking a roof on it is the only solution. as for rustlers then do you think a .223 will solve the problem or would a shotgun be a better bet? (for those without a sense of humour this last bit is a joke)
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    mystery of the missing chickens.

    cant be a cat as all 4 dogs are very anti cat.
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