post 1259 who's joz?

post 1260 :^O

post 1259 yeah but what about my hawk/snake story? X-(

post 1261 I like jozziee!

Children are often spoilt because no-one will spank Grandma

Would have been wonderful to see the hawke catch the snake clair !!


umm, I'm guessing you need to whack yourself with the feather duster.

and stop spoiling the grandies.....buy stuff for me instead 😄

soul I love seeing things like that 😄

I don't know whether the snake was dead on the road or he picked it up from the grass on the side? But I saw something brown on the road - I thought it was a fox then when I came over the rise a hawk flew off with a snake in his claws 😄

I hope I get to see the resident kookas doing that !

I saw a snake go under the capping around the pool....the birds often sit on the pool fence, so there is a good chance.

We have 3 kookas here now, haven't had any mice or rats in the walls lately and only saw the one snake. Weeeellll....there was another snake that scared the carp out of the guy ripping off an old part of the roof LOL

LOL!

Yesterday some neighbours went down for a fish on our dam, then not long after they returned and the wife saw a snake! She said she couldn't stay there after that :^O

I love the kookaburras.

What sort of snakes do you get up there? We get mainly brown & copper head and an occasional red belly black. Not sure about tiger snakes? Not this area, over the other side of Melb yes

Wow never saw this, we have one chook that lays soft shell eggs. We were told she's lacking calcium and to feed her shell grit. But she won't eat it. So we mix pollard, shell grit & canola seeds with water to try and entice her to eat the shell grit. It's pointless really as she comes good for like a day then reverts to soft shelled eggs again. She needs her head chopped off but I don't have the heart to do it. Also with wing clipping, I never bothered as the area they are in has a 6 1/2 foot high fence.

I don't know about shell grit etc but I tried to get my chookies to eat pellets by turning them into warm mash with homemade vege stock. They ate a little bit, but it was winter and maybe the warm food was what they tried. My chookies won't pellets.

Any way, I finally let my girls out of their cage to roam around a newly secure part of the yard.
THey love it, the cats don't seem to bother them, and they seem to be eating more food.
I have a little suspicion that they excess food might be feeding the small birds that can now get to the feeder, ?:|

I haven't clipped their wings and, so far, they haven't tried to fly yet.

THey come running when I come into "their yard" becuase sometimes I bring them a handful of worms out of the garden. 🙂

It is with great sadness that I note the passing of Kevin, the Rooster ...

Sadly, Kevin was required to put his life on the line for his girls and he seems to have done that .. the fox got Kevin, but all the girls are fine

Damn thing commando crawled through 3 metres of wire mesh (2 layers), then pushed through the side of the wooden laying box, and into the coop where he pushed the door (chocked with a couple of bricks) open and get out, taking Kevin with him .

All we have left is feathers

RIP Kevin

ordering a fox trap, it's time I stopped being lethargic and take the darn things down.