Farmer Roy's Random Thoughts - I never said it was easy.

[cows sh#t me to tears]

Most domestic breeds aren’t good flyers. Too big/heavy.

I wasnt expecting them to fly to Canada but surely, like chooks, they would be capable of flapping over a bit of netting

 

[Agrispeed]

I wasnt expecting them to fly to Canada but surely, like chooks, they would be capable of flapping over a bit of netting

They could, if they were smart enough to work it out. We have Gineafowl, and they will spend all day running 6' back and forth trying to get through a gate that is a) ajar, but 8' long, and b) they can fecking fly.

They do taste nice though.

 

[Blaithin]

I wasnt expecting them to fly to Canada but surely, like chooks, they would be capable of flapping over a bit of netting

Nope. Mine don’t even try and get off the ground.

Even my bigger breeds of chickens don’t flap much. They’ll make their way up to higher roosts if there’s different heights they can use to get there but they can’t go 4 feet straight up.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Have found with the 36 and most definitely the 63, that standard cut out switches burn out pretty damn quickly.......have had to go for ones with double thickness in the pins

I put an extra jumper (croc clips and a bit of 14ga insulated wire) on my cutouts, and even the odd triplex that doesn't have a wire wrap - any arcs or sparks seem to send those fault-finding testers mental

The old man used to disconnect the energiser and just hook the leadout to a phase, soon clears the spiders out of insulators and gets rid of the brushweeds @NZDan
I wonder what the EU would say about that

 

[Kidds]

One of mine did fly away recently, never to be seen again.
Geese don't like anything to be different, if I took the fence down altogether it would be a few days before they even crossed where it used to be. The one that flew away was because I put them in a different field and it upset them. Strange creatures but lots of fun and taste amazingly good!

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Great creatures for training pups .

 

[NZDan]

I put an extra jumper (croc clips and a bit of 14ga insulated wire) on my cutouts, and even the odd triplex that doesn't have a wire wrap - any arcs or sparks seem to send those fault-finding testers mental

The old man used to disconnect the energiser and just hook the leadout to a phase, soon clears the spiders out of insulators and gets rid of the brushweeds @NZDan
I wonder what the EU would say about that

I've some triplex with built in egg insulators, they track really badly across the surface of the insulator when it's wet.

 

[Deerefarmer]

old man used to disconnect the energiser and just hook the leadout to a phase, soon clears the spiders out of insulators and gets rid of the brushweeds @NZDan

 

[Kiwi Pete]

You soon work out where the shorts were, it's wherever that smoke was coming from, before....

Electricity is actually pretty effective at killing plants my weed zapper is brutal, 15kVA don't think the EU would like it either, I won't even begin to describe how unsafe it is on here

 

[Yale]

You soon work out where the shorts were, it's wherever that smoke was coming from, before....

Electricity is actually pretty effective at killing plants my weed zapper is brutal, 15kVA don't think the EU would like it either, I won't even begin to describe how unsafe it is on here

Ah,I’m sure it must work well on the children.

They must never misbehave.....now.

 

[CornishTone]

They could, if they were smart enough to work it out. We have Gineafowl, and they will spend all day running 6' back and forth trying to get through a gate that is a) ajar, but 8' long, and b) they can fecking fly.

They do taste nice though.

Ah, it’s not just ours then! Montgomery will fly over the fence then immediately spend the next hour pacing up and down trying to get back to his chooks. A squirt of water usually reminds the retard that he can fly!

 

[CornishTone]

Right on cue!

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

Surprisingly moist here for a drought breaking 6mm last night. I guess the fact that everywhere had virtually turned to bull dust just means it's now turned to slop hopefully it will strike a bit of barley grass to allow a kill where I want to sow oats.

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

BBQ at the outlaws this evening (oops did I say that I mean in-laws. )
Suns over the hill here but shining well on the local monument.

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It’s a grand view.
Did I say I can see the pub from here
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By the time you've walked there you've earnt your pint

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

You soon work out where the shorts were, it's wherever that smoke was coming from, before....

Electricity is actually pretty effective at killing plants my weed zapper is brutal, 15kVA don't think the EU would like it either, I won't even begin to describe how unsafe it is on here

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

They could, if they were smart enough to work it out. We have Gineafowl, and they will spend all day running 6' back and forth trying to get through a gate that is a) ajar, but 8' long, and b) they can fecking fly.

They do taste nice though.

They'd fit in well in @Clive 's book thread then

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

Not one flashing light to be seen Couldn't happen in tff land. Would need at least 57

 

[glasshouse]

Not one flashing light to be seen Couldn't happen in tff land. Would need at least 57

Was that a baldwin tractor?

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

Not one flashing light to be seen Couldn't happen in tff land. Would need at least 57

Ideal for Cornwall

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

Was that a baldwin tractor?

Yes.