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29-06-2005, 09:37 PM

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from (Nick Maclaren) contains these words:

I planted a grape vine over a big pile of (mainly) chicken and bacon
hock bones, and despite their being a couple of feet down, the local
rats started a bone mine.

Are you sure that they were after the bones? I have had rats in
my heap from next door's rubbish tip, and they completely ignored
such things in favour of the worms. However, the two are correlated,
as buried bones etc. do cause a concentration of some types of worm
that prefer a high-protein mix for their feed.

They dragged the bones out and carried them some distance. And they
completely ignore my compost heap, which is squirming with worms.

Mind you, with the AirArms S310, the grape vine is flourishing on a
second-helping of rats...

Seems reasonable. I am planning to buy a Gamo for the pigeons.
My ancient BSA jumps far too hard as the spring goes off to be
accurate at the distance I need.

Come over with the BSA sometime. I used to knock pigeons over with my
BSA Cadet Major.

thinks

Come to think of it - where *IS* my Cadet Major?

/thinks

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