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Post by jack on Oct 12, 2006 3:28:20 GMT -6
Gidday
Het Cavey, it makes me wish I had bin on the suds with you.
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Post by jack on Sept 23, 2006 13:19:41 GMT -6
Gidday
Well that don't work at all down here but Google is great even if it is 4 years old. Can see my trailer out in the paddock.
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Post by jack on Nov 7, 2006 3:59:59 GMT -6
Gidday Now whatdayathink about this story:- O D D S T U F F S T O R Y Forzie the four-legged chicken at a week and a half old. Extra anus kills four-legged chick 25 October 2006 By YVONNE TAHANA Forzie the four-legged chicken will cluck no more. The Te Uku-bred Barnevelder chick - hatched at Marlene Dickey's property at the start of last month - has died. But it wasn't the extra legs that led to its death, more likely an extra anus, Mrs Dickey believes. "He developed two bottoms and I think he got glugged up," she said. While she was surprised by Forzie's death - he weighed a "good pound of butter" and was gaining feathers slowly - it was not totally unexpected, she said. And it was fun while it lasted. "He was a bit of a laugh." Looking ungainly on its extra legs but twice as cute, the bird was an exception to the rule that chickens with defects are not normally born alive. He was found dead on Friday and is now in the Dickeys' freezer waiting to be stuffed. After he's been to the taxidermist, the family plan to donate the bird to Auckland Museum.  |
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Post by jack on Nov 7, 2006 2:23:09 GMT -6
Gidday
So you man bought you a truck and takes your car.
Is he realy that good or is it really for him?
Good on him anyway because you deserve it.
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Post by jack on Aug 16, 2006 1:29:05 GMT -6
Gidday
We have them down here too. Purdy fast little critters Eh!
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Post by jack on Sept 8, 2006 14:39:08 GMT -6
Gidday
I did say I sent it on the slow camel train but they may have trasfered it to the yaks.
Actually I was told it would take about 15 days.
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Post by jack on Sept 8, 2006 4:41:28 GMT -6
Gidday Yep SongBird, sure is. I made one about 20 or 30 years ago for my own garden and still use it now. As it is made out of copper pipe and there are no moving parts id just don't wear out. The only thing that is mot metal is the plastic hose fitting and the ones I make to sell have a rubber hand grip but mine has never had any grip, just bare pipe. StrongTower, it is for watering your garden. Lets you put on heaps of water very quickly without blowing your plants out the garden. Have a look at :- www.kiwicraft.com/aquajack/ |
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Post by jack on Aug 18, 2006 15:01:58 GMT -6
Gidday
Awww shucks.
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Post by jack on Oct 21, 2006 3:31:15 GMT -6
Gidday
Well I don't know whether I should just laugh at ewe jokers and all this talk, or should I just cry. That sorta crap is happening here too. But I suppose that ewe jokers have to put up with it too does not make it funny though.
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Post by jack on Oct 16, 2006 12:18:00 GMT -6
Gidday
I knew it wasn't older than that as I can remember all but a few which are not in this country.
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Post by jack on Oct 22, 2006 13:56:59 GMT -6
Gidday
Hey I didn't think pawpaw and cold winters went together.
It sounds like a bloody nice place to live all the same.
And those persimmons are one of the best windter fruit next to citrus.
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Post by jack on Aug 12, 2006 15:20:48 GMT -6
Gidday
Well you sure are a lucky bugger having a job like that. And it looks like a job that is extremely well done as well.
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Post by jack on Aug 31, 2006 13:13:07 GMT -6
Gidday
Hey how bg is your tribe. There are so many things ya pickin that you could feed an army.
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Post by jack on Nov 7, 2006 3:50:03 GMT -6
Gidday
Now here is a strange chicken story:-
IAIN McGREGOR/Waikato Times
TWIN BEAKS: In an extremely rare case, these twin chicks hatched on a Turua poultry farm are healthy, but half the size of a normal chick. They came from a normal sized egg, not a double yolked one.
Strange tale of the chickens and the egg
04 November 2006
By MARTIN TIFFANY
Turua poultry farmer Mark Goldby had to do a double take as he helped his chicks hatch recently. And he still doesn't know which came first, the chicken or the chicken.
Two weeks ago a number of the eggs had been in his incubator for several hours so he thought he would give them a helping hand to make sure they hadn't dried out.
"I broke the white on one of the eggs and the chick inside must have been pushing because it fell out," Mr Goldby said. "I was looking at it when I realised there was another one inside the shell."
Mr Goldby said he didn't think the other chick would be alive, given the lack of air at that end of the shell. But both the blue australorp chicks were alive and well –- something he thought was impossible. "I told some other breeders and they said: `We don't put double yolkers in the incubator'. I told them neither do I. It was a normal egg."
Mr Goldby said they avoided putting in double yolkers because they never hatched. and the egg the twins emerged from was normal size.
Vanessa Wintle, technical executive officer of the Poultry Industry Association, said she had discussed the case with industry people and they had agreed it was highly unusual and extremely rare.
Mr Goldby compared the twins to Forzie, the four-legged chicken, born in Te Uku in September but who later died. "That one (Forzie) was like conjoined twins that didn't divide properly. These two did."
He said the chicks were developed normally but just half the size of others the same age –- a normal chick weighed 100g, but these two combined weighed just 97g.
Mr Goldby and his wife Fiona breed chickens for a hobby and started with six chickens for a personal supply of eggs. After doing some reading on chicken types, Mr Goldby said he found that the numbers of some of the more rare breeds were dwindling. He decided to farm some of these breeds and now has half a dozen breeds on his farm just out of Ngatea.
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Post by jack on Feb 11, 2007 13:35:30 GMT -6
Gidday
Is that what a two legged goat looks like?
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Post by jack on Mar 9, 2007 14:32:59 GMT -6
Gidday
Yep sure looks good.
But me, my first thought was if I had than on my place I would be harvesting it for a little hydro power to run me house from.
And yes Bscamo I would think that was the old Caveman's medicine.
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Post by jack on Feb 14, 2007 3:46:04 GMT -6
Gidday
Now that looks like it would even make an old grizzly have a big bloated tum.
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Post by jack on Feb 13, 2007 22:51:25 GMT -6
Gidday
Now mate that sounds like a bloody good deal.
Only trouble is the photo is too dark for me to see what's init.
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Post by jack on Oct 21, 2006 18:35:09 GMT -6
Gidday
Well Laura I would rather wine than whine but that might not be P.C.
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Post by jack on Oct 20, 2006 14:16:50 GMT -6
Gidday
Betty, this is in the South Island of New Zealand. To be more specific, the Waitaki Valley.
One thing good about here is it is very dry and that makes it dificult to farm unless you have irrigation, but the Good Lord gave us plenty of water in the Waitaki river.
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Post by jack on Oct 20, 2006 4:56:51 GMT -6
Gidday
Not easy, not easy at all.
Get home with wind burnt face and bloody sore eyes from the wind and dust.
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Post by jack on Oct 20, 2006 4:23:50 GMT -6
Gidday I am just about sick of bloody wind. We seem to be gettin far too much these days. It was a bit cooler today, but yesterday wind gusts to 87mph and temperature of 80. But as I am working in a vineyard at the moment, I suppose the view is a bit of a compensation.  Looking up to the vineyard from the road.  Looking down the valley  and swinging around across  up the valley  and towards the mountains. I suppose if I was shut in a bloody office all day I would have something to grizzle about. |
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Post by jack on Oct 26, 2006 3:20:03 GMT -6
Gidday But I also found this, one of which I remember too.  And even one that was ealier that only ran on kerosene but have not been able to find an image. But I still doubt very much if any red Ford tractor was ever imported into New Zealand. |
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Post by jack on Oct 26, 2006 3:11:48 GMT -6
Gidday Well bugger me dead. I wold never have believed that any Ford tractor was ever red. So9 I did some Googling and actually found some but some of the early ones I hace sen are like this  |
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Post by jack on Oct 24, 2006 22:59:55 GMT -6
Gidday
Never seen a red ford. I have seen and driven tractors since they still had steel wheels. The oldest fords I have seen were always and much darker blue, but blue all; the same.
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Post by jack on Oct 24, 2006 2:35:45 GMT -6
Gidday
Now NNbreeder, [My little one is old enough to be all red] could be taken two ways by a crude old Kiwi.
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Post by jack on Oct 22, 2006 19:54:15 GMT -6
Gidday
Hey Jreanette, don't blame me. I didn't use up all the gass. There's still plenty of gass left in me.
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Post by jack on Oct 20, 2006 14:11:17 GMT -6
Gidday
Now Jeanette that ain't no garden tractor Eh!
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Post by jack on Nov 8, 2006 12:33:34 GMT -6
Gidday Well it's morning now.  Betty, Oamaru is our closest town. I doubt very much that we will see the icebergs from here as we are 30 miles inland. Now all you climate change people, just tell me when the climate was not changing. It was similar in the 50's, like shocking floods and drought but we were blaming the nuclear testing then. I think they were blaming the testing of the boomoorang way back too. People just gotta blame something. |
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Post by jack on Nov 8, 2006 3:01:25 GMT -6
Gidday Well it's supposed to be bloody spring down here. The vineyard I work in has had frost damage lately. Today we have had rain and hail and now snow down below 1000 feet on the hills.  And now we have a hundred icebergs coming our way. 13,500km journey to NZ for icebergs 08 November 2006 MATTHEW TORBIT A flotilla of 100 icebergs drifting toward the South Island has travelled more than 13,500 kilometres and were once part of a much larger iceberg, which broke free from the other side of Antarctica. National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research oceanographer Mike Williams said that in 2000 an iceberg 167km long and 32km wide broke off the Ronne Ice Shelfon the same longitude as eastern South America. The iceberg, named A-43A, subsequently broke into pieces, and one of these was probably the parent of the icebergs drifting toward New Zealand. The crew of an air force Orion, on a routine patrol, spotted the first of the icebergs about 300km south of Invercargill on Friday. The biggest iceberg was about 1.8km long, 1.3km wide, and towered about 120 metres above water. With 90 per cent of an iceberg under water, that meant the largest was about 1.2km in depth. Dr Williams said it was likely a large iceberg carved from A-43A became caught in the chilly Antarctic Circumpolar Current and spent five years drifting eastward. The icebergs are expected to melt or collapse before reaching the New Zealand coast, but Dr Williams said there was an outside chance they might be spotted from the mainland provided they broke up into smaller icebergs. I am definately voting for global warming. |
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