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BAD WEATHER AND EVEN WORSE TEMPER

Author:
D C T --friendly poultry orthopedist

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Date Posted: 18:00:36 05/25/09 Mon

We have had over a week of mostly rainy weather here in
Georgia. The dark clouds and the barometric pressure do
cause my old bones to hurt. I was feeling supremely
grumpy but had myself in control as always.
I found a catalpa hornworm and decided to give it to
Everest who normally can eat from my hand in the manner of
a gentleman (his father, Neverland the Insane, had the the
most gentle way of accepting food of any pointy beaked bird
that I ever met)
But today Everest just plain slammed his body against the
gate trying to hit me. Of course he could not touch me but
it was shocking. hmmmm....hormones or just the bad day???
anyhow I took that catalpa hornworm and gave it to a peahen
named Twister's Firstborn who was happy to accept it

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[> Subject: Re: BAD WEATHER AND EVEN WORSE TEMPER

Author:
maxie
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Date Posted: 12:30:16 05/26/09 Tue

Wow! Sorry your peacock tried to mash you against the gate. Would you take a rolled up newspaper and give him a tap with it if he does it again? Our peacock strides after my husband and I when we walk in the garden, and he follows our neighbour in a similar fashion when he's in his garden too. It's a bit sinister. He seems to have an intent about it, like we're on HIS territory! I thought I'd probably take a newspaper and bop the peacock with it if he tried to start anything...just to assert the pecking order properly with HUMANS at the top! I know it sounds a bit mean, but I don't need big birds like that thinking it's ok to chase me in my own garden! :))

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SEEKING PEACE

Author:
D C T --friendly poultry orthopedist
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Date Posted: 20:42:59 05/26/09 Tue

Actually Everest was inside pen and I was outside which
explains why all that this son of Neverland the Insane could
hit was the gate.
But later when I wished to carry a peahen through his pen
from an inner pen--I did use a light training rod to ask
Everest to go into his coop. He went in without even being
touched by the rod. Since I did not shut the door he popped
right back out of coop but I had made my move through his
pen with that peahen very swiftly.
Everest and I do understand eachother very well most of the
time.
But sometimes I tease him by standing less than two feet
from him so that he can stare at the shins that he would
very much like to whack--if only there were not those
hands ready to grab him....there is a BIG difference
between being insane and being stupid.
The way that he hit the gate was unusual--it was an extra
bad day

[> [> [> Subject: Re: SEEKING PEACE
Author: Maxie [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 03:18:19 05/27/09 Wed "But sometimes I tease him by standing less than two feet from him so that he can stare at the shins that he would very much like to whack" Oooh I bet his stare is something to behold! It'd make a grown man quiver I should think! :)x

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HE DOES NOT LOOK MEAN

Author:
D C T --friendly poultry orthopedist
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Date Posted: 19:08:23 05/27/09 Wed

>Oooh I bet his stare is something to behold! It'd
>make a grown man quiver I should think! :)x
++++++++++
NO, NO, and NO....
his face is innocent. Like all my white spaldings he has
blue gray eyes. His green spalding father, Neverland, had
very gentle looking brown eyes so that I could NOT believe
that he really wanted to fly at me with his spurs. His
insanity made him do it. I always deflected his attacks without bruising him.

[> [> [> [> [> Subject: Re: HE DOES NOT LOOK MEAN

Author:
helen (smile for the day!)
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Date Posted: 02:37:19 05/28/09 Thu

Maxie and DCT - you two really make me SMILE! it is worth logging into this forum every morning just to have you both start me off with a smile for the day!!xx My two started singing at 3am this morning and only stopped when they eventually got up (or, got down)from their roost at 4.30am - their days are numbered i am sure! That, or re-home my neighbours!
Maxie, i have emailed you thank you for your message x

>>Oooh I bet his stare is something to behold! It'd
>>make a grown man quiver I should think! :)x
>++++++++++
>NO, NO, and NO....
>his face is innocent. Like all my white spaldings he
>has
>blue gray eyes. His green spalding father, Neverland,
>had
>very gentle looking brown eyes so that I could NOT
>believe
>that he really wanted to fly at me with his spurs. His
>insanity made him do it. I always deflected his
>attacks without bruising him.