What I do, which I learned here on BYC, is cut my watermelon in half scoop out the what I want with an ice-cream scooper, and fill the watermelon with crushed ice. They love it.
You really do not have to tie anything. Just catch the chicken, grab the hatchet: skin it, gut it, and put it on ice. The faster and cleaner the better.
That is the way it went and still goes for me. When they were small the chicks whooped the poults a good one - dragged them around by that bump on their beaks. Wait until those poults grow a couple of months, and the tide will settle and turn some.
I would try to keep that little enemy close. Give him a job and pay him well. He sounds deranged, but I would rather have him on my side than against me. Kids like this are smart, manipulative, and vindictive. They love to challange and to be challanged, and call bluffs. Six year olds are...
You absolutely can not trust a pitbull, all the attacked owners say "They have always been so sweet and loving. I have never had a problem with them ever." That is what they all say right after they take half the scalp off a young child, or attack the owners themselves. Ramming into the...
If you are growing your own cucumbers let them grow oversized, split them open and they/he will first pick out the seeds then move onto the rest. Grasshoppers!!!