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Poultry and Pets => The Hen House => Topic started by: slowef on August 22, 2007, 09:29

Title: Horrid People!!!
Post by: slowef on August 22, 2007, 09:29
I am now the owner of another 3 ducks 2 Saxony and another Aylesbury.  I took them on after the guy at market refused to let the buyer have them because he overheard a conversation and he was going to use them to train lurchers to kill???  I guess that means let the dogs rip them to pieces.  How can people be so cruel?

He apparently bought some rabbits for the same purpose.  I cannot understand this mentality.
Title: Horrid People!!!
Post by: muntjac on August 22, 2007, 10:23
strange that one slowf .... my son got conned into buying 10 runt mongrel pol chucks ,the bloke said if he didnt sell em he was gonna neck em n bin em before he went home ....... they was £2 each .kie got em fer £10  :lol:
Title: Horrid People!!!
Post by: mercury on August 22, 2007, 10:26
Pure ignorance slowef, you don't need live animals to learn them to kill, anyway, i'm glad you got them, lucky ducks :)  :)
Title: Horrid People!!!
Post by: slowef on August 22, 2007, 10:40
No money changed hands, I was asked if I could home them by the market guy who knows me.  He would have taken them but had no carrier to take them on the bus!!! :?
Title: Horrid People!!!
Post by: muntjac on August 22, 2007, 10:42
BLOOOMIN ECK can i go wif ya next time ,,,, you did a great one there .goods on ya for the adopting  :) now withthem you can breed a few for yourself next spring and if you want sell them for meat birds .£15 on the hoof here .
Title: Horrid People!!!
Post by: slowef on August 22, 2007, 10:44
think prob not as they are drakes  :oops: but I think I am now known as a soft touch, just call me adopter :roll:

Behave with the eating you know I am a looking and egg only person tut tut

xx
Title: Horrid People!!!
Post by: lizatros on August 22, 2007, 13:21
My local vet was taking 2 goat kids (billies) to melton market and stopped off at my local while I was there. Half an hour later I was the nervous owner of both. Husband was not impressed. We used to take them for a walk with our dogs :roll:
Title: Horrid People!!!
Post by: Aunt Sally on August 25, 2007, 20:07
Have you got some pictures of the duckies to show us yes slowef.  Are the setteling in OK  :lol:
Title: Horrid People!!!
Post by: slowef on August 25, 2007, 20:46
They are still a bit nervous but I will get some soon, they go into hiding when I arrive but I hope to have them eating out of my hands soon like the others.  There is still a bit of argy bargy  but I am sure it will right itself in a week or so.  The Aylesbury is looking the worst, he needs a good swim to clean him up (I have got him a cheap poundland paddling pool just for him to use) but  he is eating ok.
Title: Horrid People!!!
Post by: purplebat on August 26, 2007, 13:56
Quote from: "lizatros"
My local vet was taking 2 goat kids (billies) to melton market and stopped off at my local while I was there. Half an hour later I was the nervous owner of both. Husband was not impressed. We used to take them for a walk with our dogs :roll:


you sound just like me!!! be careful though I got a reputation for doing things like that and ended up with 70 rabbits, 2 chipmunks (which then had 4 babies) 3 ferrets, 10 guinea pigs, 2 dogs 6 cats, an avery full of birds, 3 mice (rescued from a lab), 5 rats,9 hamsters (started of as one "boy" who had 8 babies a week later), 3 gerbils, and 3 terrapins, needless to say, my ex was not impressed at all, although we both became experts at knocking up a cage or hutch in a very short space of time  :lol: nearly took a pot-bellied pig but decided I was already married to one!  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:
Title: Horrid People!!!
Post by: WG. on August 26, 2007, 14:04
Quote from: "purplebat"
 nearly took a pot-bellied pig but decided I was already married to one!  
 :lol:  :lol:  :lol: