Dealing with rodents in the orchard

[peds]

Watching chickens chase mice is terrifying. Imagine if dinosaurs hadn't shrunk and grown feathers... 

 

Frogs, too. But mine don't seem to like frog meat, they only do it for the thrill of the hunt.

[CTTree]

2 hours ago, peds said:

Watching chickens chase mice is terrifying. Imagine if dinosaurs hadn't shrunk and grown feathers... 

 

Frogs, too. But mine don't seem to like frog meat, they only do it for the thrill of the hunt.

 

I unfortunately saw a chicken get partially run over by a very slow moving tractor once, before I could get to the chicken to put it out of its misery a handful of other chickens pounced on it and were redistributing its innards to the 4 corners of the world. Absolutely ruthless, thank god they're not 6 feet high, let alone 60. 

[peds]

Scary beasts!

[Stere]

[peds]

5 minutes ago, Stere said:

 

I was doing a chicken show at a nearby school this morning (I bring a load of the girls and their babies, everyone gets to hold a chick, stroke a rooster, that sort of thing), and one little lad asked the age old question of which came first, the chicken or the egg? He suggested that maybe the first two chickens just sort of appeared out of thin air... maybe God?

But then we explored the idea that chickens are just the last of the surviving tiny dinosaurs with 65 million years of experience under their belts, so it was eggs that came first... because dinosaurs have been using eggs for much, much longer. And just imagine the fluffy little rooster with his 3-inch spurs, but instead he's mostly naked and 7 feet tall with his spurs scaled up the same... and you've got something pretty similar to the velociraptor... I think I might have given some of them a slight fear of chickens instead. Whoops!