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In the decade after the war many locals still kept a few layers, chicken meat was still expensive compared with pork but occasionally one of the old hens would be eaten. The bones were much tougher than from modern shop bought chicken. My nan would not allow the bones to be fed to the dog, an ancient mongrel called Dumbo, because she said they would splinter and stick in his gut. We have continued to refrain from letting the dogs have the chicken carcass but I do strip it thoroughly for them.

Soles? Rubber.

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Nice, I'm always on the lookout for nice hollow bits. I cut out and kept some rot pockets on the last few ash and sycamore I removed, I intend to turn them into bee, bird, and bat houses. Tempted to try hollowing out a big piece with some hot embers and a leaf blower.

have they got rubber or irons

My brown hound has learned how to crunch them down just fine, as have generations of my folks' border collies. On the other hand, my wife's girlhood springer had surgery to remove a cooked chicken bone. So it's a tricky one, really. I appreciate that it's a potential risk, but I also refuse to waste such a valuable quantity of protein. Oscar has only had raw and dried so far (big bags of dried chicken feet, nice cheap treat), but when the time comes for him to have a femur from the stock pot, I'll be holding on to one end of it, just as when he was learning to eat raw chicken legs.

Thank you All for your input, will definitely follow up the suggestions 👍. And report back 😀

Do you have any photos that you could share? Bit hard to try to diagnose the problem without being able to see the issue. Is there any obvious damage to that one bough, physical or physiological? Maybe Canker or some other infection.

Nothing gets past some people does it?! So, to address this, the burning question of the day; they're neither work boots nor going out shoes. They're a pair of clogs I wear for kicking around in the workshop and garden sometimes. They're fairly new so probably were fresh out of the box in that first picture. I'm not one of these weird blokes that has to have shiny shoes! Second picture was in the kitchen @Doug TaitD. (Probably with slippers on in case you were wondering!)

Peds, Glad to see someone else prepared to feed dogs chicken carcass/bones.

I'm not a fan. I generally like and buy from Rob and co wherever I can as their website and range is second to none. Those bars however are not up to task and unfortunately they've stopped stocking the stihl bars. For the 2511 you can buy a stihl 10" bar, and the 57 (make sure the drive link count is correct as the more popular 56dl won't fit) over the counter at most stihl dealers

Are they not going out shoes in the kitchen? Fruit and veg. There's no comparison at all. I got amongst other things some spring onions from someone, fantastic, sandwiches at work were lovely. When they were done I got more at the supermarket and you wouldn't have known you were eating them, tasteless. I look after a mate's chooks occasionally too and their eggs are a different beast from bought ones, ironically they're ex battery birds! What I did like was when we took a tree down at a high school in a local town. The tree was over an allotment with greenhouses which was done entirely by 1 teacher, a couple of parents and a group of committed volunteer students. They sold everything through their own shop which was a garden shed. You tell them what you want, wait 5mins while the kids dig it up then pay by donation. That was tasty veg. They were talking to a local drinks producer about getting their own brand of juice made from their fruit. Found it all quite encouraging.

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Hi Georgia, Small world ! Nice to see you here #Northernrootsnextparkranger (pray wink emoji) See you soon, Dawn

Got to agree with that. They know their stuff and asked nicely can often get special orders in. I know I am being anal about this..... but how shiny are your work boots in the top pic!! (assume in the workshop you have your boots on)

They are both sitting on it. Roast chicken carcass for dinner last night.

Quite a lot of supermarket fruit and veg is disappointing compared to what you can grow in the garden. It's grown more for their convenience, (shipping, storing, consistency of size/shape etc.) Consumer taste is not that high a priority. Even stuff from a proper old fashioned green grocer is way better normally. These were Bramleys. Apparently. The were real Bramleys, from the greengrocer.

I have a very mature apple tree with 3 main trunks / boughs. It is usually regularly pruned but was not done last year. All the branches on 2 of the main boughs have leafed and blossomed as usual, but those on the third have just begun to blossom and then stopped, as if the tree is low on energy. Should I trim the branches on this part back a third to try and conserve energy and encourage growth on the rest of the poorly part, or is it a lost cause?

Is the old brown one on the right curling one down on that log ?🙂

I've got one on my small Makita battery saw and that's lasted a few chains, but it runs fairly loose and never as much power as the 2511. Stihl bar is supposed to be the one to use, with 57 link chain that fits a MSA161. Have bought one, not tried yet.

Defer to the expert here, isn't forced rhubarb grown outside for a year or so and then moved into the forcing sheds to produce the crop? Supermarket rhubarb always looks a bit disappointing to what I can get out the garden.

Haha, nothing would surprise me about those cunning Yorkshire men.