Sacha wrote:
On 11/1/07 16:26, in article
, "Mike Lyle"
wrote:
chris thame wrote:
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We love bantam eggs.
Are there any practical disadvanteges to choosing bantams instead of
chickens..
(My wife Catherine would like a white one... and she intends to call it
'poulet').
Are we sad or wot!
As MuddyMike implies, nothing wrong with being sad like that; but be
prepared to get surrounded with unproductive old birds you can't bring
yourself to kill!
Gosh. I'm glad my husband feels like that. ;-)
My dear! How could you possibly imagine. . ?
Years ago he had a bantam - sweet little thing. It used to fly at him,
spurs at the ready trying to attack every time he went near it. In the end
he had to carry a tennis racket with him and swat it to the other end of the
run before he could get the eggs!
I still bear a small scar on the inside of my right knee from one such
friendly greeting by a bantam cock, over fifty years ago! I had no
tennis racquet, and, in my trusting way, only wanted to _talk_ to the
little *******!
--
Mike.