Wishing everyone on SAP whatever they wish for in 2007

Met the sun halfway

Slainte

Jill [and the rest of 2 and 4 leggeds at Kintaline]

Its too wet and windy to go out anywhere!

"Susan Hogarth" gmail.com> wrote in message

As Jill says, "chook" rhymes with book, look, took etc.

And having looked up the cite you gave, I notice that it says that it
may have a connection with an old British word "chuck". The cite then
goes on to mention the use of "Chuck" as a name. I've only ever heard
of "Chuck" being used as a ame in the US so it must be a US site.
Anyway, I thought you might be amused by another Australian word
usage. Chuck is a word for vomiting in Australia as in "I was so sick
that I did a big chuck".

"Mary Fisher" zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message

Wash your mouth out Mary! Chickens are wee small balls of yellow
fluff. Chooks are big feathered things.

Susan Hogarth wrote:

It's pronounced the way THEY say it - rhymes with book. In fact broody hens
often say the staccato Book!Book!Book! and then there's that contented drawl
which is more like Cha-a-awk...chaaawk...chalk.

Puh PAHk pukpukpuk!!! is any panic (including "a plastic bag just blew past our
wire netting!" That's in the New Zealand dialect of course :)

A L P

Thankyou very much for the info ...I will start the absinthe
distillery...and cancel the chicken run!

Catherine Jemma ...do you want 7 chickens? (one died on Friday, but
thank goodness "Mr Fushbishler" took her away on Saturday morning). She
was a wee bit smelly!

So, seems wormwood is the culprit! ...sad that it is the best growing
bush on this sand dune? Life for a wee chicken can be a bit of a bummer

Thanks everyone for your imput.
Pat
Happy New Year

hello,

while on scaly-leg patrol in the past couple of weeks, i have noticed a pit
in the foot of one of the chooks. it's nearish the webbing between her toes
and there's no way to describe it but as a pit. about 5mm long & 5mm (or
even more) deep, but only perhaps 1mm wide.

when i first found it, i managed to get out the stuff(!!!) that was in there
(this was really difficult - it was wedged in like anything) & thought
perhaps it was a little bit of stick she'd wedged in...

enigma wrote:

But chicks will not develop at room temperature (unless you live at 40c
day and night), and -certainly- not in the 'fridge.

"Omelet" gmail.com> wrote in message
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Jill wrote:

"Amy Blankenship" magnoliamultimedia.com> wrote in message
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Rare Breeds Survival Trust.

We have done a great job in 'saving' old and rare breeds of horses, cattle,
sheep, goats and pigs. Not poultry because no-one can agree on what a
definition of a rare breed is in poultry terms :-)

Mary