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Title: Getting evil eyes from Alphie again
Post by: New shoot on March 20, 2015, 17:30

Oh boy I am in his bad books again   :lol:

He only has one spur as the one on his other leg never grew and very proud of it he is too, but it was curling back towards his leg, so he had to suffer the indignity of me catching him up to clip it.

Then I noticed how mucky his bum was where he has been getting in the nest box with one of his girlies at night, so he got a dunk in a bucket of warm water and a clean up on top.

To say the small white rooster is not amused just goes nowhere near describing the current mood he is in  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

Title: Re: Getting evil eyes from Alphie again
Post by: snowdrops on March 20, 2015, 17:58

I hope you didn't embarrass him in front of his hareem :)

Title: Re: Getting evil eyes from Alphie again
Post by: mumofstig on March 20, 2015, 18:47

Well, you certainly ruffled his feathers, so what can you expect  :lol: :lol:

Title: Re: Getting evil eyes from Alphie again
Post by: sunshineband on March 21, 2015, 09:10

He will come around once you produce the meal worms  :lol: :lol:

Title: Re: Getting evil eyes from Alphie again
Post by: nerdle on March 22, 2015, 08:33

 :D :D :D :D :D

Title: Re: Getting evil eyes from Alphie again
Post by: New shoot on March 22, 2015, 15:32

I've blown it with the pair of them now  :lol:

Foggy had a bit more of a John Wayne swagger than normal and on investigation, one of his spurs was curling sideways and catching on the other one as he walked.  He managed to snap one completely off last year, so I trimmed the really long one to match the regrown one.

He's not one for sulking, but I got a good telling off when I put him back down.  After having a good shout at me, he stalked off and glared at me from the other side of the run  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

Title: Re: Getting evil eyes from Alphie again
Post by: mumofstig on March 22, 2015, 16:13

You know how to make yourself popular, don't you  :lol:

Title: Re: Getting evil eyes from Alphie again
Post by: tosca100 on March 22, 2015, 16:20

 :lol: :lol: :lol:

Title: Re: Getting evil eyes from Alphie again
Post by: snowdrops on March 22, 2015, 20:53

Oh dear poor boys. Are Spurs just claws,so nail like ?

Title: Re: Getting evil eyes from Alphie again
Post by: New shoot on March 22, 2015, 21:16

They are solid nail Snowdrops and a devil to clip through, but no nerves or blood so it doesn't hurt them.  Well apart from their pride of course  ;)

Seramas are full of attitude and even though the pair of them are knee high to a grasshopper, they have the egos of a male ostrich  :lol:

Title: Re: Getting evil eyes from Alphie again
Post by: snowdrops on March 22, 2015, 22:00

Thanks for the explanation, I've only had chickens in the past

Title: Re: Getting evil eyes from Alphie again
Post by: joyfull on March 24, 2015, 07:42

snowdrops even hens can grow spurs, one of mine Emily has a pair that any cockerel would be proud of  :)

Title: Re: Getting evil eyes from Alphie again
Post by: snowdrops on March 24, 2015, 07:50

Oh I didn't realise that, I only had 2 + 2 for a short while & then we moved to a garden that isn't really suitable. We are moving again & I would like some more, maybe at the plot if I retire & stay close enough for it not to be a pain, but I did like them in the garden. Such characters :D

Title: Re: Getting evil eyes from Alphie again
Post by: tosca100 on March 24, 2015, 09:45

Dave had a proper telling off from Sevi yesterday too, he had left the gate open and a few chooks took the opportunity to make a run for the garden....all easily rounded up except Sevi who was so puffed up he couldn't remember where the gate was. So was grabbed and did he swear! For half an hour! :lol:

Title: Re: Getting evil eyes from Alphie again
Post by: surbie100 on March 25, 2015, 16:51

How many mealworms did it take to win them around?

Title: Re: Getting evil eyes from Alphie again
Post by: New shoot on March 26, 2015, 06:36

Quote from: surbie100 on March 25, 2015, 16:51

How many mealworms did it take to win them around?

Quite a few   ::)  Alphie has now taken to standing on his wood log and staring me out, while holding his wings away from his body so he looks bigger.  Being the size of a wood pigeon that has a limited effect of course, but its a 'you dare come near me look' for sure  :lol:

Title: Re: Getting evil eyes from Alphie again
Post by: snowdrops on March 26, 2015, 06:59

 :lol: :lol: I just love hearing all these chicken stories

Title: Re: Getting evil eyes from Alphie again
Post by: New shoot on March 26, 2015, 13:07

Quote from: snowdrops on March 26, 2015, 06:59

:lol: :lol: I just love hearing all these chicken stories

The simmering fury of the small white one is now recorded for posterity in his diary  :lol:

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