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Slow but steady wins the race----sometimes... we are slowly getting back to the happy place everyone considered us to be ---as an “out to lunch bunch “ is slowly getting back together... I am told....... someone has taken over the design and completion of the new chicken residence-- -- all covered—to prevent flyovers from hawks and the fairly local eagle pair often filmed at meridith farm ( probably only one air mile away) --- it has been reported the chicken numbers are being slowly reduced... must be winged raptors..... ignoring my used car lot shiney flags... if it was racoons there would be feathers.... wellllllll actually... the foreign workmen putting up the partridgeberry place development next door left no feathers either when they had their chicken BBQ one night after work...
Covering a coop--- I did that once.... I had an aviary of the hoops used in greenhouses.... and tarp... it was a bent ½ circle... and it should have drained (see my extensive reporting on water flowing downhill)— which as the tarp went over the top, there must have been a flat place where a tiny puddle started.... and before that downpour stopped, it had all the water around that flat spot to collect, got heavy and collapsed the hoops, killing some of my white homing pigeons and a few peacocks...
Once a puddle starts , it creates it’s own “down hill” getting magnified with each raindrop. All it needed was one quick poke with a sharp knife at the lowest point... and I would still have peacocks--- wellllll boy would the neighbors love that. Peacocks sound EXACTLY like a woman screaming HELP--- usually twice each sequence—
As the development progressed it became obvious the peacocks had to go. ( actually only the males with those feathers were loose on ( and off) the property.
There was an extremely expensive golf course and clubhouse nearly completed—in Ipswich--- their logo was a peacock—of course ! midnight maneuvers--- no one knew where they came from—and I let the female loose too. For a few years I heard peacock stories from several towns away... they are wild birds in India... I am told—for a while they were wild in Ipswich too !