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Sandy

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Chicken killed by crab!!
« on: September 16, 2010, 10:02:43 pm »
My partner has some crab apples and he was happily throwing them into the chicken bit of the garden and then came to me saying " I think I just killed one by throwing an apple" I qestioned him about it and went to inspect and saw the chicken rock solid floating in the pond!!! why did you throw them without looking? never mind, shes gone now...we dispatched the chicken after fishing her out and then took the dogs for a walk but durring the walk I had to confess that I had thrown several bits of bread into the pond first thing in the morning and one chicken must have been so tempted and fell in...so my fault!! sorry Steve..but don't throw apples just in case!!!!

faith0504

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Re: Chicken killed by crab!!
« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2010, 10:05:49 pm »
double whoops

doganjo

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Re: Chicken killed by crab!!
« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2010, 10:48:57 pm »
My partner has some crab apples and he was happily throwing them into the chicken bit of the garden and then came to me saying " I think I just killed one by throwing an apple" I qestioned him about it and went to inspect and saw the chicken rock solid floating in the pond!!! why did you throw them without looking? never mind, shes gone now...we dispatched the chicken after fishing her out and then took the dogs for a walk but durring the walk I had to confess that I had thrown several bits of bread into the pond first thing in the morning and one chicken must have been so tempted and fell in...so my fault!! sorry Steve..but don't throw apples just in case!!!!
And I hope you confessed to poor Steve in person as well as on here???????
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Sandy

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Re: Chicken killed by crab!!
« Reply #3 on: September 17, 2010, 09:00:26 am »
of course, even he thought the chicken was a bit stiff ::)

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Re: Chicken killed by crab!!
« Reply #4 on: September 17, 2010, 06:29:20 pm »
 ;D  that has made me smile! poor Steve!  I've been known to bung food inc apples etc up into the chicken run and I always wince that it might hit one!! its like that scene in 'about a boy' where the lad hits a duck with a lump of bread and kills it!
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Rosemary

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Re: Chicken killed by crab!!
« Reply #5 on: September 17, 2010, 07:04:45 pm »
A bloke I used to work beside did a bit of shooting. He had a number of dead game birds hung outside the house. He looked out and saw a ferret dragging one away. He opened the door and through his boot (the nearest thing to hand) and it and killed it stone dead. He said he couldn't have done it if he tried.

Sandy

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Re: Chicken killed by crab!!
« Reply #6 on: September 17, 2010, 09:39:25 pm »
 ;D ;D Yuo only get stuff when you are mad and don't aim!!

Bright Raven

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Re: Chicken killed by crab!!
« Reply #7 on: September 18, 2010, 07:18:15 am »
My father in law took out a baby rabbit with a pair of garden shears thrown from over nine metres and around a large ornamental bird bath. Up to this point we had all pulled his leg for being a notoriously lousy shot.
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Sandy

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Re: Chicken killed by crab!!
« Reply #8 on: September 18, 2010, 10:33:37 am »
 ;D ;D ;D

BAKEWELL11

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Re: Chicken killed by crab!!
« Reply #9 on: September 18, 2010, 05:08:22 pm »
oh my!!! :( poor chicken! :( Poor Steve!! :( :( :(  I wouldn't have admitted it about the bread  ;)

Sandy

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Re: Chicken killed by crab!!
« Reply #10 on: September 18, 2010, 05:39:45 pm »
In the back of my mind I think it may have been the  :&>!!!!!!! THe feathers on her back were parted odly so I think she may have gone down to the pool for a drink and Charlie  :&> saw the oppertunity and took her for a swim ;)

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Re: Chicken killed by crab!!
« Reply #11 on: September 18, 2010, 06:22:59 pm »
In the back of my mind I think it may have been the  :&>!!!!!!! THe feathers on her back were parted odly so I think she may have gone down to the pool for a drink and Charlie  :&> saw the oppertunity and took her for a swim ;)
I think that's the likely explanation too.  How's sick chick?  I think I have one too.
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Sandy

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Re: Chicken killed by crab!!
« Reply #12 on: September 18, 2010, 06:23:54 pm »
:chook:

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Re: Chicken killed by crab!!
« Reply #13 on: September 18, 2010, 06:24:59 pm »
Always have been, always will be, a WYSIWYG - black is black, white is white - no grey in my life! But I'm mellowing in my old age

 

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