Donna Wildwood
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I had an old jam making pan catching water from a slow leak in my water line.... The leak is gone but i have to fill up the pan everyday still cos the goldfinches all came round for a drink all lined up round the edge! I hope to build something better for em soon cos I want me jam pan back lol!
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Oh dear gods i'm snivelling now! My Dad used to sing all this to me as a nipper!
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Stuff like this probably doesn't help the 'feed the foxes brigade' either http://flashmanfoxes.webs.com/ourfoxes.htm
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:cray: My hero 'So if you get to heaven, you can bet your dollar note.... that the angel with the whiskers on is Paddy McGinty's goat' RIP Val my childhood would not have been the same without you xx
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I never worry about percentages, especially with good quality raw food. If the dog looks thin, feed it more, if it looks fat, feed it less Season does affect mine, so I change times around. Normally Pi eats at the end of the day incase he's needed on the farm to work. In the heat though he has most of his food in the early morning and a snack at night. Then he finds a shady spot and naps through the heat of the day, and is ready to go again in the evening. If I feed him late in the heat, he doesn't settle and then gets skinny or puke it up :/
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Add a teaspoon of tartaric acid (cream of tartar) per litre and it will keep till the end of days too
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Should We Be Allowed To Smack Our Children ?
Donna Wildwood replied to Blackbriar's topic in General Talk
A slap on the arse to prevent a scald or lekky shock etc I can understand, but other than that i think is overkill... Having said that, I don't remember me Dad ever laying hand on me, but if he said 'if you do that again you'll get a smack' I damn well knew I'd get one! -
Sorry didn't see the replies on page 2! LOL!
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The old books used to advise against pork as it could carry the trichinosis parasite. Since it was eradicated from this country in the 80's (I believe;)) it is safe to feed british pork. I have no idea about imported meat though. Pi likes it, and a good pigs foot is excellent gum/tooth massage. I wouldn't feed the bacon or ham bits that sometimes come in the bags I get from the butcher though.
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If you ask nicely I MAY let you join my tribe lol!
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My 2 gills are Ron and Ginny (Weasley) because i have a very sad sense of humour. I just call out ''Veeeeeeezzzllllleys'' and they come back so works for me
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Never give up your day dream
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I made elderflower and strawberry cordial and elderflower and orange cordial. Delicious! Fab made with hot water for a cold too 12 bottles made of each and 6 bottles of pear and ginger. Got the cherries on for some syrup now, got me herbs hanging to dry. Just found some wild valerian so going to get the roots to make my sleeping syrup Chamomile, feverfew, yarrow, agrimony, hyssop, comfrey, motherwort and wood betony all stored away. Rose petal wine bubbling away, off out tomorrow to get more elderflowers for wine. Been a busy few days!
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Bring it on! I love the sun :D:D:D:D
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Went to B&Q for some plumbing stuff and spotted these in the carpark. Asked the nice man at the till and he told me to help meself! Bonus! Wine and jam here I come
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Check out the cages most farmed rabbits are kept in. They take a social communual burrowing animal force it to live on a wire floor in solitary confinement. Do feel guilty about eating supermarket rabbit! It's kept worse than battery hens ;( If you have a shed and an area to make a secure pen, 2 does and one buck will give you all the meat you want. I have 2 enclosures. the 1st is where the main colony is kept, bucks, does, kits all together. Then after the birth of the young I move the buck out, along with the older kits for company into the 2nd pen. The mothers tend to nest together an
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Goats are fab, but believe me they are far more intelligent than you would think lol! My rabbits don't tend to carry too much fat, but then they are never shut in hutches so get plenty of exercise. Dealing with flies is easy, muck out every day! I get more flies on the elderflowers than I do my animals
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I like both but there are bugger all wildies round here! Feeding them this way gives them a slight gamey flavour but not too strong. I don't like to feed too much commercial feed to any of my animals, I don;t think they were designed to eat it. I get slower growth rates but tastier results and meat that i know is chemical free
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Don't spend the summer just feeding and cleaning them out, handle them everyday so they stay friendly when the season rolls round again
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Yup on the herbivore side of things I have rabbits, an AN goat for milk and a Boer doe to produce meat kids plus a small flock of shetland sheep.
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i'm holding one doe back for breeding and have promised a kit to my neice. But yep, the rest and any future ones are for the pot! I'm experimenting with different colours as well so I can tan the skins and make stuff with them. I'm really liking the chinchilla colour in the middle of the 2nd pic, the buck is that colour so should get a few more. i cull any runts for the ferrets, and the rest I will keep to 10 -12 weeks
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Some of my french lop babbers at a month old! Not bad for colony reared on wild greens and a few pellets eh?
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I used to live 3 fields up from the villagers gate. Went a couple of times but the hypocrisy (sp?) got me in the end. I gave my ticket away this year. I shant go again. My truck was painted green, does that count as graffiti? There are Gypsies, there are new age travellers and there are about a million different people in between. Does it matter what colour your home is? If you like rainbow, paint it rainbow! My Roma mate loves her mirrored doors and crome, I can't stand them so I don't have them! She hates my 50's curtains and sheepskins, i love em! Enough people are against
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Lol! fab idea! I could use the one I use for ahem 'watching' the wildlife at night eh? Should be bright enough
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I don't drive, I walk or cycle. Cross country when possible. However I do have one major complaint.... At night drivers that don't dip their lights for people walking/cycling. where there are no paths I have no choice but to use the road, I wear high viz so you can see me, but I kind of need my retinas intact if I am to be able to get out of your way!
