Unusual animals on your farm
- Thread starter Treg
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Av Gorritt
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- NE Ches / SE Lancs
I didn't know you could buy any kind of swans , I thought they all belonged to the Queen , or to the brewers , witness "swan upping " and all that sort of thing , marking the swans with beak notches , or am I completely wrong ?
Glass half full
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- essex/suffolk border
only the Mute swan belongs to the queen, and she only exercises her rights on a few stretches of the thames. interestingly, there is a historic law that students from kings college Cambridge are the only people with the 'right' to hunt un ringed mute swans!
you are allowed to own any other non native species of swan but they must be pinioned so they can't fly. there are a few breeders around, apparently golf courses are big buyers of swans as they chase geese off!
Av Gorritt
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- NE Ches / SE Lancs
I didn't know any of that , but if they do chase geese off I'm sure a lot of folk would like some .
not with the number of swans round here there as bad as the geese!
paul&mandy
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- surrey/west sussex
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Glass half full
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- essex/suffolk border
I am told by several people on a conservation pond forum I belong too that a territorial pair of swans will not tolerate geese on there patch. the price of swans I will be selling any offspring and not building up a big flock! roast swan is supposed to be good as well...
- Location
- Radnorshire
Don't know where you are, we must be at least fifty miles apart, but we (me and my eldest boy) saw a white kite over a neighbour's field when he was cutting in September, no pic so nobody believed us. It seems unlikely there are many of them, so it could well be the same one. Will make Mrs Danllan look at your pic when she gets back.
Yep, I miss giraffe, a lot. Didn't get them on the place in Zim any more than once or twice a year at most, same for elephant (which was a good thing). But we'd see kudu and eland regularly, baboons daily, leopard, wildebeest, hartebeest and other large antelope occasionally. Sometimes croc's in the river - once in the dam, which scared the hell out of everyone including me, because they weren't 'supposed' to reach there. We heard lion roaring once, but never saw them on our place, made you think though...
A neighbour once had a young kudu bull stuck in a large drain sump which was being built, that was a pain to get out, we were only a short way from filling the freezer before we managed to get a rope on him properly.
- Location
- Radnorshire
At Rhayader Danllan so not so far as the kite flies. There was a white kite at the forestry kite feeding station at Bwlch Nant Arian on the A44 near Aberystwyth as well.
Danllan
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- Sir Gar / Carms
No, not so far, so it doesn't seem that unlikely - yet Mrs Danllan is not convinced... wives... (that written, rather courageously, now that she is safely off to bed).
Kite feeding stations...
Is it a White hart? Heard of them but never seen one
Is it a White hart? Heard of them but never seen one
Well, they are fallow deer, and plenty of people have seen the occasional 'white' one in these woods, I had a white stag cross the road right in front me one night, proper spooky. I have always been told by the natives that they are albino, but when I put that photo on our fb last night a chap replied saying white rather than albino, apparently there are white fallow deer. I will ask a man who will know for sure as am now intrigued as to whether 'ours' is white or albino.
- Location
- South West
Had a red kite hovering around us yesterday when on the last of the silage and had to google birds of prey to find exactly what it was but the forked tail, size and colour gave it away quickly . Fantastic to watch and also had a heron that kept popping in to watch us work
A White hart can be Red or Fallow deer, its Luecism that effects the pigment of the hair ,which I suppose some people mite call albino.
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