Village Squire, 1980-08, Page 33SIX ACHERS
Yvonne Reynolds and her husband, a
retired Canadian Armed Forces officer,
settled in rural Huron County six years
ago. The antics of one dog [daughter of
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which she hatched in ideal fashion, doing
everything just as the book says a hen
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stood on the bodies of their fallen comrades
to obtain a better footing while eating more
cherries.
The blackbirds are smarter. If Don
appears with a shotgun, they all immedi-
ately disappear. As soon as he gets tired of
armed warfare and puts the gun back in the
rack, blackbirds appear from nowhere and
head straight for their free lunch.
We retired from the contest when we
heard that the previous owners had
actually covered the whole tree with a
fishnet sent from B.C. by a relative, and
the birds still ate the cherries. We are
convinced the birds are aware of our
decision. Now they boldly eat their
ill-gotten gains and contemptuously spit
And how have our swallows repaid our
tolerance and protection? In true bird
fashion. At first, Mother Swallow cleaned
her offsprings' tiny behinds with her beak
and dropped all the guck on the verandah.
Now she has them toilet trained - the
babies answer nature's call by flipping
their little birdie bottoms over the edge of
the nest, relieving themselves, and pop-
ping right way round again. Is there a
market around here for guano? You can
have it all, just for hauling it away.
TWENTY EGGS, SEVEN CHUCKS
We have had the same kind of luck with
our domestic birds. Although we set
twenty eggs under the three part -Bantam
hens, Cream now clucks over seven chicks
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VILLAGE SQUIRE/AUGUST 1980 PG. 31