Posted on 07/06/2022 8:40:18 AM PDT by devane617
The man spent a month in jail for animal cruelty but says he never should have been arrested.
My poor neighbors get to listen to my Macaws. Bloodcurdling screaming until they get their peanut butter sandwiches.
“Next thing you know, he calls the Chicken Police on me...”
There’s a sentence you don’t hear every day.
“reimburse the neighbor for his roaster”
Hey, if he roasted that chicken, then he really didn’t suffer any loss!
my grandfather had one of those things...
the screeching was deafening when my grandfather left its sight...
i used to tell it “i have a turkey roaster with your name written all over it”...
I’ve long wanted a Cockatoo or African Grey. But they can live so long, and tend to become attached to a specific person; I feel it would be wrong at my age.
I can imagine
I can’t imagine that peanut butter sandwiches being a proper diet for a macaw though.
You have your macaws out doors?
Hi.
I hope you are doing well.
“Try having a neighbor with a Peacock.”
In various towns in Florida, the peacocks run wild.
St. Pete, Tampa and Largo have large populations of the bird.
Mornings, especially around mating season can “disturb” the neighborhood.
The peacock was brought to Florida for the colors in their feathers.
Their feathers are no longer used for pigment and you can’t eat them.
Annoying little critters.
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Roosters are interesting little guys, but they are not legal to have in my village and it would annoy the neighbors. I could keep the detritus of the coop for compost I suppose, but that could be smelly too. Thanks for the info.
Yes, I’ve heard that. Chicken poop is good for vegetables.
I’m not sure what ‘used for pigment’ means. I know the feathers themselves are often used decoratively...but aren’t the colors the result of the feather structure - like blue jays?
That is right! Even though Momma told her not to put two game type roosters in the same pen, she did. Same thing with the Billy goat.
I spent the first half of my childhood in the swamps of the Everglades. I spent the second part on a farm in Tennessee. The very first time we pulled the bass boat to the Everglades to fish I told her, “Don’t drag your hands and fingers in the water here like you do at home”. I told her that even though we have some bad biting critters in TN, we don’t have anything like she’d find in the swamps. So, what does she do? I turn around, her fingers are in the water, and just as I screamed at her she looked and saw the big Cottonmouth coming up to grab her hand. It almost got her. She listened to me for all of that trip.
You would think that after that, she would have listened when I told her not to get a Billy Goat and only have one rooster.
“Do hens make a lot of noise?”
Not unless they are laying.
Whatever you do, don’t get Guineas if noise is a problem.
😂 yer killin me Homes.
Hi.
True, but long time ago it was difficult to make dyes.
Flowering plants are another source.
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But they’re great for keeping down insect pests - sometimes even small rodents.
Thanks. I just don’t see how a dye could really be made of peacock feathers - not like we’ve made dyes from plants, insects, even some invertebrate animals.
They are also good “watch dogs”. I could deal with them but they drive my husband nuts.
Why can’t you eat Peacocks?
You can. They say it tastes like turkey. But there is probably very limited supply produced for food (if any in the US) and it may be illegal to kill the feral ones depending on where you are.
(In the Middle Ages ‘fancy people’ would serve it with the tail and head re-attached to the roasted carcass.)
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