What makes a chicken coop easy to live with?

[Janepie33]

 

DS is home from college (he's doing a BSc in Aquaculture and Fishery management). A VERY keen fisherman he often pops pots of maggots into the fridge overnight. I'm OK with that.

 

I am NOT OK with live maggots wriggling all over the bottom of my fridge because he has put them into a plastic bag with a hole in it!

 

Needless to say, contents were removed from the fridge and DS was handed a large bottle of Dettox and a cloth....

[Olly]

 

Although if you suddenly got a chook with an impacted crop, you might be very grateful!

[foreveryoung]

Haha I was just about to post I have maggots in my fridge as I actually do have maggots in my fridge, all be it in a special tub from the tackle shop which has about 4 pint glass worth in it...... (Im trying to fatten up my girlies a little as they are rather scrawny.)

 

but the thought of them free ranging round my fridge................ ewwww ewwwww ewwww

[Janepie33]

They often get a handful of left over maggots at the end of a fishing trip. They gobble them up so fast and then you can see and feel their crops moving!

[Lewis]

Niiiiice

[foreveryoung]

They often get a handful of left over maggots at the end of a fishing trip. They gobble them up so fast and then you can see and feel their crops moving!

 

There was an old lady who swallowed a fly

I don't know why she swallowed a fly - perhaps she'll die!

There was an old lady who swallowed a spider,

That wriggled and wiggled and tiggled inside her;

She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;

I don't know why she swallowed a fly - Perhaps she'll die!

There was an old lady who swallowed a bird;

How absurd to swallow a bird.

She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,

She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;

I don't know why she swallowed a fly - Perhaps she'll die!

There was an old lady who swallowed a cat;

Fancy that to swallow a cat!

She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,

She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,

She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;

I don't know why she swallowed a fly - Perhaps she'll die!

There was an old lady that swallowed a dog;

What a hog, to swallow a dog;

She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,

She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,

She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,

She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;

I don't know why she swallowed a fly - Perhaps she'll die!

There was an old lady who swallowed a cow,

I don't know how she swallowed a cow;

She swallowed the cow to catch the dog,

She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,

She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,

She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,

She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;

I don't know why she swallowed a fly - Perhaps she'll die!

There was an old lady who swallowed a horse...

She's dead, of course

 

its a horrid ending, couldnt they give her intergestion instaed?

[Snowy]

My boys LOVE that song! Gruesome isn't it?

I was going to suggest letting the chucks clean out the fridge first, then send son in with the dishcloth and dettox second.

[Egluntyne]

One of my boys likes to go fishing. I often have maggots in the garage fridge. The hens love any 'leftovers. Also, his landing net is very handy for catching chickens.

[Cinnamon]

We have a garage fridge too,almost exclusivly used for hubbys fishing maggots & beer

Got it for nothing on Freecycle

[Alis girls]

A woman I worked with had a town house on 3 floors and her sons maggots escaped and were found on 3rd floor. She moved out till he'd cleaned house from top to bottom

[foreveryoung]

A woman I worked with had a town house on 3 floors and her sons maggots escaped and were found on 3rd floor. She moved out till he'd cleaned house from top to bottom

 

 

think id move out two,

 

did a snack for my kids (normally something a nd some fruit which they oic of a plate in the middle of ther table) anyway they all had they plates ready and were ready to jump, so i put the tub of maggots with lid down (they didnt know what was in it) and I lifted the lid - Ive never seen kids stop so fast lol with a corus of "uuuuuuggghhhhh"

 

yes Im cruel -

[Chook n Boo Mum]

Fantastic

 

Sha x

[Chook n Boo Mum]

A woman I worked with had a town house on 3 floors and her sons maggots escaped and were found on 3rd floor. She moved out till he'd cleaned house from top to bottom

 

He'd better have cleared them all up...they pupate into the most ghastly blow flies....or the few which escaped Buffie's beak did...I'd forgotten we'd had a breakout & suddenly these whoppers arrived in the middle of a cold snap, so unseasonably early for flies

 

Sha x

[Seagazer]

Is it ok to feed the leftover dyed maggots to the girls? My YS has taken up fishing so sometimes buys them but he tends to just chuck them in the river afterwards. I was worried about the dye affecting the girls.

 

We had to have them in the fridge on the boat we rented for holiday last year, that was my first time and it was but I did get used to it in the end.

[lillybettybabs]

Is it ok to feed the leftover dyed maggots to the girls? My YS has taken up fishing so sometimes buys them but he tends to just chuck them in the river afterwards. I was worried about the dye affecting the girls.

 

We had to have them in the fridge on the boat we rented for holiday last year, that was my first time and it was but I did get used to it in the end.

I read somewhere only to give them white maggots, I can't remember where though

[Chook n Boo Mum]

Why do they dye the maggots in the first place

 

I only buy the white beasties for my girls..though I've no doubt they devour coloured ones just as quickly

 

Sha x

[Seagazer]

Must be to attract the fish I think, they are very vibrant colours. I'll have to see if I can persuade him to buy the 'normal' ones.

[Chucky Mama]

I had some in ES bedroom wardrobe once. He had stashed his uneaten lunch in there next to the hot water tank. Muggins here opened it . I carefully packaged it back up and then sent him up to clear his wardrobe....and listened for the scream

[The Dogmother]

@CM

 

I used to go fishing when we were little and spent all our hols in Norfolk, I was never allowed to keep the maggots in the fridge, so as the cottage was very cold I used to leave them (in their pot) in the downstairs loo. I have no idea how they escaped, but my mother discovered them one night when she went barefoot, in the dark to the loo. I wasn't very popular.

[Old Speckled Hen]

Reminded me of my dad when I was a child. He used to keep his maggots in the fridge, livebait(when it was legal to use it) in the bath and his motorbike in bits on the kitchen floor

I remember mum coming home from work one day to find a huge live pike in the bath (parents are Polish and they like their pike ....yeuk!!!!!)

[The Dogmother]

I hear it's good meat too.

 

A neighbour takes his motorbike apart in the kitchen - his wife has left him, citing that as the prime reason. Considering the size of the kitchens in these houses, I am hardly surprised.

[lillybettybabs]

I love it when my mum comes to stay and finds a pot of maggots in the fridge,

Then goes in the deep freezer to find whole pigeons and pheasents (i use them for gundog training).

she doesn't half squeal when she finds them.

[Janepie33]

Mine eat the coloured ones ...... and all sorts of things they really shouldn't and they are absolutely fine.

[Seagazer]

That's good to know.

[Goosey Lucy]

Had our bins emptied this morning.

 

Went to put in a bin bag of rubbish just now and lo and behold the floor of the bin was alive.

 

Tipped them out for the birds in the hedge to munch on, couldn't face collecting them and taking them down to the field for the girls.

 

Also think the neighbour might ring for the men with nice jackets with ever so long sleeves...