[MiriMaran]

We went to a friend's for trick or treat and the boys had to hunt through bowls of duck entrails looking for sweets!!!  They loved it!  BTW the sweets were wrapped up!!







Harry has kept the head for his bone collection!  He says he's going to bury it for 4 months - I bet he won't wait that long!

Happy Halloween!

[MiriMaran]

I hasten to add that the ducks were shot on a shoot and not specifically to entertain the boys on Halloween!!

[doganjo]

Well, as a gundog handler I kinda guessed that but it's just as well you mentioned it I think!   The ones I get are sued for retrieve training fro months afterwards - they live in the freezer!

[Fluffywelshsheep]

ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo lol

Good idea for Halloween !!

[MiriMaran]

Karen is brilliant.  A couple of years ago she put blood coloured water in a coldrun with roe deer skulls and gof balls decorated as eyeballs - the boys had to stir it and find coins in it.

Today, she made the boys blindfold themselves and then produced a box that they had to put their hands in to find sweets.  Unbenown to the boys it was supposed to have a frog in it, but the frog had escaped, so we quickly put in duck feathers and a wet cloth which freaked Harry out.  We then found the frog, gently added it to the box, but didn't think that frogs and feathers don't mix well.  So, about 2 mins later a feathered ball hopped across Karen's yard and into the night!!

[doganjo]

Oh dear, poor Kermit!  Hope he headed for the duck pond quick

[dixie]

I hasten to add that the ducks were shot on a shoot and not specifically to entertain the boys on Halloween!!

Thank goodness for that!

[little blue]

 

[northfifeduckling]

OMG, this brakes my heart - I'll have to turn vegetarian!! I know you warned us and I had watched one of my birds being killed, but I'm such a softie 

[MiriMaran]

It was a wild duck that had hopefully lived a lovely happy free life and will now give my friend a good meal.  The head is buried in the garden so that Harry can keep it for his bone collection.  You never know he may grow up to be a vet, forensic scientist or axe murderer!  Who knows, but the duck hasn't died in vain!

[sandy]

One milllion years ago, I changed the whole house, I blacked out our office, brought a tree in and hung jelly worms,spiders etc on it and told a story with a torch comming out of a coldrum, with the help of dust made from talc etc...I then had another room for faery folk, with big toadstools made from papper mache, a wishing well and some faery games...I loved it and so did my children. Back to the Halloween stuff, children need to see nature, dead things, how we get to the meat product etc...I wish I could have children again..love them and love ebing with them!

[northfifeduckling]

I took mine along when our drake was killed. I thought it was important for them. As important as for me watching the procedure, it taught me that keeping animals for meat is not for me (I'm probably always going to be a softie  ).