[bucketman]

Hi all well its going good here the chuck have gone native on us and started laying out side so egg hunt each day. They have 32 acres to wonder about on ( not all ours). But what do they do go round the front to the loch across the road. We looked out the window and there they where then they started walking away me and Les went to round them up Les was feet away but a 4x4 was faster the guy didnt stop after it it was the chucks fault. But in away we where glad we seen it so we could sort it. Before more cars went over the body
still it was sad
rob

[SallyintNorth]

 

[Mammyshaz]

So sad

[jaykay]

Oh, I'm sorry.

I had better not write on here what I really think about the idiots who drive faster than their brains work  I too have lost chickens and young cats to them 

[in the hills]

   Sorry

[ppd]

Sorry to hear that Rob 
Hope all else is well with you
Pauline

[plumseverywhere]

Really sorry, horrible when this happens. My children watched our lovely cat hit and killed earlier this year - I get cross if people don't at least stop and move what they've hit 

[Bionic]

Ah, thats very sad. 
Its good to know that not everyone is like that b******* though.  Mum hen went walkabout with her 4 chicks and I found them wandering up the road.  Its a very quiet single track road, nonetheless a man had stopped and he waited patiently while I herded them back in the right direction and off the road. 
Sally

[Rosemary]

 

[bucketman]

Thanks for the replies. Ppd every thing is going good Les has started doing some meals. But the place next door closes soon for 5 mths so there will be just me and Les here
rob

[Lesley Silvester]

 

[Sylvia]

I'm sorry for your hurt   but animals are perverse. Until her death, I cared for a lady who lived the other side of Exeter to me and I had to make a nightly journey along the A38 through forestry land. Every night there were deer grazing on the verges and that with thousands of acres of forest and farmland either side! There must have been a reason, I'm sure they didn't do it just to worry me   Lots get killed there

[Lesley Silvester]

My experience of living near deer is that they like to step into the road just to see you slam on the brakes.  Nobody would want to hit a red deer.  I've heard of a landrover being written off on one.

[plumseverywhere]

My experience of living near deer is that they like to step into the road just to see you slam on the brakes.  Nobody would want to hit a red deer.  I've heard of a landrover being written off on one.

That's put me off of nightdriving MG0M!!  I had to collect mum from A&E at 2am once when they decided they had no beds and she was well enough to come home (with bilateral pneumonia, ahem) and I saw sooooo many deer, foxes, badgers between Evesham and Redditch (about 30 min drive) it was unbelievable that I never hit anything!

[Lesley Silvester]

What sort of deer are they near you, Plums?  The Scottish red deer are huge.  I did hit one once - just clipped it and knocked it over but damaged my front wing (just bought the car as well).  My then OH was just upset that I hadn't brought the stag home to go in the freezer.      It just got up and wandered off.
 
I also heard of someone who had a van load of eggs and was driving to his shop when a stag landed on the roof of the van.  Scrambled egg for tea for the whole village.      Think it might have been scrambled van as well.