Re: Helping Meowmie shut up the chickens


"Jo Firey" <JAfirey@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Ted Davis" <tdavis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 21:51:06 +0100, "Christina Websell"
>> <spamfree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>>I'm going to have to shut Boyfriend in the house to stop him helping me
>>>in
>>>the evenings. Far from being a help just lately to guide me home a yard
>>>or
>>>two in front with his reflective collar like he used to, he has started
>>>to
>>>wind in and out of my legs on the way back and nearly trips me up. Wind
>>>in
>>>and out of legs, rub cheek on watering can. Wind in and out, rub cheek
>>>on
>>>fence, gate post, wheelbarrow - you get the picture - and he comes back
>>>to
>>>wind in and out of my legs each time.
>>>
>>>I can only shut the chickens up at dusk, they won't go into their huts to
>>>bed any earlier. I can't see in the dark now after my 5 eye ops, it's a
>>>side effect of saving my sight.
>>>
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>> Maybe a flashlight would help both problems: a one million candlepower
>> flashlight. Not only does mine light up whatever it touches like
>> daylight, but it stimulates various animals to move about, or even
>> turn around and leave (possums shy away from it at a range of two
>> hundred feet), thereby providing distractions for the cat.
>>
>> I bought mine on sale at Lowes, but they are very popular with outdoor
>> type people so it should be possible to find one in a sporting goods
>> store. Rechargeable - lasts several hours of intermittent use between
>> charges. I use mine for inspecting the property after dark to see
>> what wildlife is out and about.
>>
>>
> We use ours to find the cats if they don't come in before dark. Those
> glowing eyes give them away every time.
>
> Jo
>
I lost Ted's post in my flood removal program, so I will tag on here. I
used to use a powerful flashlight, one of those rechargeable million
candlepower jobbies that light everything up for a mile.
There was one big problem with that, though. I have a mega fox problem here
so I daren't wait until after dusk to close the popholes up. This means the
fowls have only just retired for the night a few minutes before.
I have some amazingly bad-tempered roosters. Some are fine, but some should
really be flavouring soup for bad attitude and would be if I wasn't so
stupidly softhearted. I have a Speckled Sussex rooster that is 12lbs of
pure evil. He attacks me at every opportunity and I have to use a mesh
shield held in front of me to replenish his food and water. His name is
Attila.
What happens if I use a bright light to visit the chicken huts is that every
rooster with an attitude hurtles back out and asks me if I wanna fight ;-)
and won't go back inside ... and it is surprisingly painful when they strike
out like lightning with their spurs, it both cuts and bruises.

I use a small LED headlight to sneak down the garden but it casts a blue
light which is only just sufficient. One of the problems that's been caused
by my eye surgery is that my eyes take ages to adapt going from light into
dark and vice versa. It happens almost instantly in most people but is a
common side effect of the type of surgery that I had. I now have to use a
torch to look into a cupboard unless I want to stand there for 15 minutes.

It was so helpful that Boyfriend ran in front of me about six feet away with
his reflective collar, but this winding in and out of the legs that he's
just started to do is not good.

Tweed



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