He felt like chicken tonight

[Sausagedog 7,381]

More importantly....what was supper?

Edited November 11, 2020 by Sausagedog

[Stavross 18,336]

exciting stuff, spring into action like the 4th emergency service, you will have more eggs than you know what to do with

[shovel leaner 7,650]

2 minutes ago, Sausagedog said:

More importantly....what was supper?

Cottage pie , with carrots and peas . Followed by a Magnum choc ice . I know how to live

[Squirrel_Basher 17,102]

I get told the following night lol.

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

33 minutes ago, foxdropper said:

I get told the following night lol.

I get told the following week

[shovel leaner 7,650]

Last night after I’d shot  the two foxes at the chicken farm and they’d posed with the chicken for that photo. I chucked the chicken over the fence back into the run . I popped in this morning and it was gone . I asked the farmer if he had moved it and he hadn’t. I guess I will be back out tonight.

[Sausagedog 7,381]

15 minutes ago, shovel leaner said:

Last night after I’d shot  the two foxes at the chicken farm and they’d posed with the chicken for that photo. I chucked the chicken over the fence back into the run . I popped in this morning and it was gone . I asked the farmer if he had moved it and he hadn’t. I guess I will be back out tonight.

You wise old coot you....

[shovel leaner 7,650]

Well I had my supper tonight ( pork chops , mash and some frozen runner beans , if you are interested sausage ) and made my way over to the farm to have a look to see if what took that dead chicken was about . The farmer met me at the gate with his torch, he’d just been to lock up the birds and told me he saw one in with the cattle earlier but nothing in the run . 
            I got the rifle and my sticks out and had a scan with the thermal and sure enough the run was clear . So I thought I’d check the field at the back with the cattle in . I was walking along the track to check the bank and almost bumped into Charlie sat no more than 20 meters on the track . I turned the digisight on and took aim off hand but I was all over the shop , so I deployed the legs on the Harris bi pod and got prone ,  I lined up the dot on its bib and click , “shit” I hadn’t cycled the bolt to load it , the wind was in my favour and Charlie seemed unfazed as I noisily worked the Tikka’s  bolt , no click this time and thud into the bib went the 50 grain Vmax , the foxes head turned to the side and it stiffened up and toppled over like a felled tree . And it was another vixen .
        With a bit of luck it’s the one that took last night’s Chicken, but I know it won’t be long before I get another call . 

[Stavross 18,336]

There should be a nice little Christmas box coming your way

[Squirrel_Basher 17,102]

If I know farmers it will be empty mate .My chicken farmer makes Scrooge look like the Salvation Army .

I asked for 6 chickens while back and bearing in mind he has 19 sheds ,4 1/2 thousand in each he said ,no we are low on eggs this months .Arsehole .

 

[Baldcoot 2,352]

Spent 4 years selling to farmer,s  always started a conversation with "sharpen your pencil young man."

Generous to a fault some others that tight make the pips squeak. 

[Meece 1,958]

On 11/11/2020 at 09:26, Alsone said:

It's all good for you and Charlie's clever but I'm still surprised they haven't managed to stop him with electric fencing. There's obviously some gap in how their fencing it, earth leakage or the energisers aren't strong enough. I'm only protecting a pond but nothing gets past that VOSS energiser I've got set up and that includes me - I'm terrified of it. I have to turn it off to hang the washing out!

Yep, the flash from these is pretty frightening I've seen them cracking across onto long strands of grass.   The difference between the pond and a fence is that charlie can run and scale the fence, ( very easily) whereas for Charlie to get past the fence round your pond he has to jump into the pond.

On 11/11/2020 at 19:49, shovel leaner said:

Just about to eat my supper and the phone goes , it’s the chicken farmer . “ can you get here “ , “ why , what’s up “? “ I’ve just been to lock the birds up and I’ve seen a pair of eyes in the run “. “ I  will be straight over “ . I told the Mrs to keep the supper warm , I wouldn’t be long , she said something along the lines of , “I’ve heard that one before “. 
        A quick dash around getting the rifle and all my kit and I was in the truck in a couple of minutes. I turned the thermal on as I approached the farm and was scanning as I drove up the track . And sure enough I spotted a fox through the hedge and in the run . I stopped the truck and pulled down the tailgate and stood on it to shoot off the roof , but there was not one fox but two . I shot the nearest and reloaded, I scanned around with the thermal and the other fox had run to the other side of the run , I squeaked with my hand and it stopped, I carried on squeaking and it slowly closed in . When I’d got it to a decent position I dropped that one too . I went to pick them up and found a half eaten chicken next to the first fox , a vixen  . I picked up the second fox and it was a dog  . A quick text to the farmer to tell him job done  ,I was hardly out for 15 minutes , supper still warmish , a quick blast in the microwave . Jobs a good un .

Is that a small cherry tomato by the front leg of Charlie.???

1 hour ago, shovel leaner said:

Well I had my supper tonight ( pork chops , mash and some frozen runner beans , if you are interested sausage ) and made my way over to the farm to have a look to see if what took that dead chicken was about . The farmer met me at the gate with his torch, he’d just been to lock up the birds and told me he saw one in with the cattle earlier but nothing in the run . 
            I got the rifle and my sticks out and had a scan with the thermal and sure enough the run was clear . So I thought I’d check the field at the back with the cattle in . I was walking along the track to check the bank and almost bumped into Charlie sat no more than 20 meters on the track . I turned the digisight on and took aim off hand but I was all over the shop , so I deployed the legs on the Harris bi pod and got prone ,  I lined up the dot on its bib and click , “shit” I hadn’t cycled the bolt to load it , the wind was in my favour and Charlie seemed unfazed as I noisily worked the Tikka’s  bolt , no click this time and thud into the bib went the 50 grain Vmax , the foxes head turned to the side and it stiffened up and toppled over like a felled tree . And it was another vixen .
        With a bit of luck it’s the one that took last night’s Chicken, but I know it won’t be long before I get another call . 

great write ups but I can never understand how farmers lay out tens of thousands on the crops (chicken) in this case and then rely on someone else to protect them as a fun hobby for nothing. .?  I know we enjoy it. I would turn out now...... But, logically would you go and wash and polish the cars of a local cab firm for nothing and provide the wash and wax materials for nothing as a HOBBY.? And then have a load of restrictions put on it.?  Like you had to call them to arrange it and you could only do it at certain times.?  We're all a bit blown in the head.  Surely.  But we love it.  Why is it that hardly any farmers shoot and protect their own situations.?

Edited November 12, 2020 by Meece

[Squirrel_Basher 17,102]

Too tight to buy bullets mate 

[shovel leaner 7,650]

9 minutes ago, Meece said:

Yep, the flash from these is pretty frightening I've seen them cracking across onto long strands of grass.   The difference between the pond and a fence is that charlie can run and scale the fence, ( very easily) whereas for Charlie to get past the fence round your pond he has to jump into the pond.

Is that a small cherry tomato by the front leg of Charlie.???

great write ups but I can never understand how farmers lay out tens of thousands on the crops (chicken) in this case and then rely on someone else to protect them as a fun hobby for nothing. .?  I know we enjoy it. I would turn out now...... But, logically would you go and wash and polish the cars of a local cab firm for nothing and provide the wash and wax materials for nothing as a HOBBY.? And then have a load of restrictions put on it.?  Like you had to call them to arrange it and you could only do it at certain times.?  We're all a bit blown in the head.  Surely.  But we love it.  Why is it that hardly any farmers shoot and protect their own situations.?

Not a cherry tomatoe , but an undeveloped egg from the inside of the chook .

[shovel leaner 7,650]

1 minute ago, foxdropper said:

Too tight to buy bullets mate 

This farmer is soooooo tight . His clothes and boots are falling off him , I’ve seen better gear on a tramp . But I can’t fault his animal and bird husbandry . The place is spotless and he is always working. He’s basically a nice guy , he can’t help the way he is , we are all different. 
        He did used to try shooting the foxes himself but just ended up educating them . I basically told him to leave them to me , as him keeping on missing them just makes it more difficult.   I do if because I enjoy the challenge of foxing.