tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706340262644788705.post3010500575939527178..comments2024-02-16T13:53:50.017+00:00Comments on Tattie Weasle: Operation StuffingTattieweaslehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10723634612274763884noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706340262644788705.post-538432853732490842010-03-08T10:06:01.593+00:002010-03-08T10:06:01.593+00:00Diney - That's why I use a broom handle. I mus...Diney - That's why I use a broom handle. I must add though I am always highly suspect when they seem to jump about after I have killed them; it creeps me out!<br />SmitoniusAndSonata - ooh no! You've found me out!<br />Mountainear - I've never figured that one out either. Wish they were like Crocdiles and it was all done on how hot the eggs got!<br />Molly Golver - My randy cockerles did that too. Actually one does feel for them so much competition so little time! However they are yummy...<br />Tiggywinkle - I adore your stories! Poor Tigger but I'm sat here giggling: we are a blood thirsty lot!<br />Pam - Oh your poor husband: enough to put you off chicken for life!<br />veryanniemary - Hi! I've found myself doing that lecture to my cats too. They politley listened to my tirade and went and did it agin: now they have bells on their collars...<br />Pondside - I have six roosters in total as some are rare breeds like Iggy the Indian Game and Sir Galahad my Silver Grey Dorking; they are kept in large cages with a harem; I do feel slightly sorry for their girls! I also have a roster who's very in tune with his feminine side, Fandango a Favourelle, but he's french....I haven't the heart to eat him!<br />Mud - you carnivore you!!!!Tattieweaslehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10723634612274763884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706340262644788705.post-43232746485691748772010-03-08T03:31:33.501+00:002010-03-08T03:31:33.501+00:00Oh - I'm now craving roast chicken! Mind you, ...Oh - I'm now craving roast chicken! Mind you, I'm hard hearted. When I spy sweet little piglets snuffling around I always think of bacon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706340262644788705.post-20205014994661604922010-03-07T16:26:11.254+00:002010-03-07T16:26:11.254+00:00Mountainear asked my question 'Why are there a...Mountainear asked my question 'Why are there always so many cockerels in a clutch of hatchlings?'<br />I like to keep one rooster around the hen house, but I still feel sorry for the girls, taken unawares, as they are.<br />We eat ours with no regret, no squeamishness. They're delicious.Pondsidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02407539138546412482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706340262644788705.post-64929369205032641652010-03-07T14:26:20.715+00:002010-03-07T14:26:20.715+00:00I say eat the rapists! I have seen people take a ...I say eat the rapists! I have seen people take a bird by the head and swing the body around to snap the neck. Sounds gruesome but it was quick and efficient! Not that I could do it - I couldn't kill a dying finch that my cats brought in - I just slobbered tears all over it and lectured the cats about their hunting technique...very useful...veryanniemaryhttp://veryanniemary.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706340262644788705.post-84064547493810919202010-03-06T23:40:12.656+00:002010-03-06T23:40:12.656+00:00So a broomstick is the answer. When we had fowls h...So a broomstick is the answer. When we had fowls husband, the new high school teacher in a country town, tried to dispatch a sick one by whacking it with a shovel. When he tried to bury it, it woke up and peered at him with an accusing gaze. Was all too much for him, us being city-bred and all, so we embarrassed ourselves having to get the high school kid next door to finish the job. Maybe a broomstick would have saved the indignity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706340262644788705.post-50646193838534141632010-03-06T22:50:02.138+00:002010-03-06T22:50:02.138+00:00This post made me laugh Tattie. Reminds me of the ...This post made me laugh Tattie. Reminds me of the time, when we lived in the country, and having expressed an interest in some boiling fowl to a neighbour,to have 6 half dead pulsating red hens arrive in a plastic sack.Tigger ran to bed. I recruited half of the village, and a bottle of Vodka later they were plucked and drawn.Got a lovely recipe for boiling fowl which Tigger enjoyed, before I told him it was one of the red hens.He nearly threw up.TIGGYWINKLEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10797704211597578471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706340262644788705.post-526823921573019962010-03-06T18:19:04.693+00:002010-03-06T18:19:04.693+00:00I used to keep hens. The male boggers would catch ...I used to keep hens. The male boggers would catch them just as they popped out through the pop hole. Good for you Tattie - that 'll cool their ardour.<br />Here's to Coq au Vin!Mollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08604864977387798470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706340262644788705.post-66539145206171669422010-03-06T17:06:45.267+00:002010-03-06T17:06:45.267+00:00Why when you hatch a clutch of eggs are there alwa...Why when you hatch a clutch of eggs are there always more cockerels than hens? <br /><br />I agree with you - 1 is fine, quite enough thank you. Get 'em scoffed.mountainearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15977393968796316843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706340262644788705.post-37654354758699379052010-03-05T22:49:28.482+00:002010-03-05T22:49:28.482+00:00I'm not sure why the fact hat you use a brooms...I'm not sure why the fact hat you use a broomstick is supposed to reassure us . It conjures up a picture of you despatching cockerels in a long black pointy hat .... and I don't mean a Welsh one .<br />But I envy you your ready supply of both eggs and tasty chicken !SmitoniusAndSonatahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11210817141287881808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706340262644788705.post-27769790313029142532010-03-05T21:42:05.485+00:002010-03-05T21:42:05.485+00:00When we used to keep chickens my brother decided h...When we used to keep chickens my brother decided he was manly enough to wring the neck of one of them (he was 18) which Mum had in mind for some soup but no matter how much he wrung the neck it just kept stretching and the poor thing didn't die - eventually she was running around in circles with a 2 foot long neck and brother became a vegetarian! Perhaps a broom would have been good....dineyhttp://oldermumsarefun.blotspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706340262644788705.post-38437125812148201002010-03-05T19:56:29.256+00:002010-03-05T19:56:29.256+00:00Iota - WOW that it fantatstic! No me winning not t...Iota - WOW that it fantatstic! No me winning not the being strong comment. It's because I am a wuss that I use the broomstick; real chicken keeper's do it with their bare hands (some of the strange ones I've met here in Suffolk I swear do it with their teeth...)Tattieweaslehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10723634612274763884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706340262644788705.post-50683396477539801012010-03-05T19:54:36.661+00:002010-03-05T19:54:36.661+00:00I am super impressed. I would love to have chicke...I am super impressed. I would love to have chickens and eat them too but i think I would be sending the Mr out to do the deed.Not From Laplandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17165208811776097332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706340262644788705.post-75598395151210818302010-03-05T18:56:24.364+00:002010-03-05T18:56:24.364+00:00You use a broomstick...? You are made of strong st...You use a broomstick...? You are made of strong stuff, Tattie.Iota https://www.blogger.com/profile/08507184283437057648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706340262644788705.post-6159214497726122192010-03-05T17:46:49.048+00:002010-03-05T17:46:49.048+00:00You won my competition! Come on over and tell me w...You won my competition! Come on over and tell me what you'd like me to post about next.Iota https://www.blogger.com/profile/08507184283437057648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706340262644788705.post-58719450537055983032010-03-05T17:11:26.260+00:002010-03-05T17:11:26.260+00:00Expat Mum - I use a broomstick....Expat Mum - I use a broomstick....Tattieweaslehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10723634612274763884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706340262644788705.post-21378350741972671652010-03-05T17:03:53.602+00:002010-03-05T17:03:53.602+00:00You killed them with your bare hands? I don't ...You killed them with your bare hands? I don't know whether to be terrified or very impressed.Expat mumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17798190669591053390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706340262644788705.post-5040541061495064252010-03-05T16:49:39.864+00:002010-03-05T16:49:39.864+00:00CJ - I know I am shockingly contradictory but in m...CJ - I know I am shockingly contradictory but in my defence I was being nice to the hens, I had their welfare at heart and it was nothing to do with the fact that I really fancied some coq au vin honest....Tattieweaslehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10723634612274763884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706340262644788705.post-12411404481222904702010-03-05T15:23:43.015+00:002010-03-05T15:23:43.015+00:00You ate your cock! And your previous post was cal...You ate your cock! And your previous post was called Being Nice!<br /><br />CJ xxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706340262644788705.post-73572536520532169182010-03-05T12:50:11.618+00:002010-03-05T12:50:11.618+00:00Preseli Mags - 12 eggs this morning! I think that&...Preseli Mags - 12 eggs this morning! I think that's appreciation.<br />Glowstars - just as long as I don't tell the boys....Tattieweaslehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10723634612274763884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706340262644788705.post-86627587037818895322010-03-05T11:58:59.776+00:002010-03-05T11:58:59.776+00:00Well at least you know where the poultry on your p...Well at least you know where the poultry on your plate has come from!Glowstarshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16103658857065729108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706340262644788705.post-62416966323030702002010-03-05T11:54:20.868+00:002010-03-05T11:54:20.868+00:00Of course that's the reason the sensible Frenc...Of course that's the reason the sensible French invented Coq au Vin! Poor hens. I hope they show their gratitude to you by laying lots of lovely eggs.Maggie Christiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16047691937064748860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706340262644788705.post-79878075595716836652010-03-05T11:32:36.246+00:002010-03-05T11:32:36.246+00:00Trish - you should see my hens I am NOT kidding po...Trish - you should see my hens I am NOT kidding poor things they are knackered but there again to be in that position!!!!Tattieweaslehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10723634612274763884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7706340262644788705.post-23069102485298299862010-03-05T11:22:47.580+00:002010-03-05T11:22:47.580+00:00Quite jealous of all that male attention! Wouldn&#...Quite jealous of all that male attention! Wouldn't it be marvellous to be fighting them off?Trishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00119443727504215312noreply@blogger.com