[Sca-cooks] Chickens

[Mercedes/Stephanie]

Or getting a small kiddie pool to put under the duck cage.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Olwen the Odd" <olwentheodd at hotmail.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 8:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Chickens


>
> ><Mark.s.Harris at motorola.com> wrote:
> > > Phlip said:
> > > -----
> > > At the moment, I'm dealing with another challenge.
> > > The
> > > ducks have been having such a good time playing in
> > > their water dish, that they're flooding out the
> > > chicks
> > > beneath, so I need to figure something out....
> > > -----
> > >
> > > Put the chicks on the top level and the ducks on
> > > the bottom. That'll teach the ducks! It's got to
> > > pretty bad UNDER the chickens... :-)
> >
> >Can't- duck cage is smaller than the chicken cage, and
> >ducks are both smarter and more creative than
> >chickens. For one thing, the ducks have developed a
> >game of skill- distance pooing. They wiggle their
> >tails, and see how far they can sling it.....
> >
> >Furthermore, they are convinced their water feeder is
> >just a small bathtub. When I cleaned their cage,
> >they'd managed to empty 3-4 gallons of water into the
> >bottom, which was leaking out of their cage, and
> >drowning the chicks. Quite a mess, to clean that up.
> >
> >Left them in the bathtub all day, alternating full of
> >water, and empty with food and water. They emptied the
> >water feeder in 5 minutes flat, and were finger,,,,
> >er... webfoot painting with the food.
> >
> >Meantime, Houdini is commentating at full volume
> >because his human wasn't paying attention.... nothing
> >like being bossed around by half an ounce of fluff and
> >attitude.....
> >
> >Phlip, the fluff-riden.....
>
> What about pulling a lawn and leaf bag part under and part way up the
sides
> of the duck cage?  It would contain the spill-off and the spray.
> Olwen
>
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