rogue poutry breeders

From: w.g.s.hamm (fenlandfowl_at_talktalk.net)
Date: 03/16/05 

Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:35:14 -0000

I was phoning about last week trying to find anyone with cochins in my
colous as I need some new blood. One woman I was given anuymber for said she
could send me a dozen eggs, so I transfeed £10 into her bank account and
the eggs duly aived. I rested them for 24 hours and was just about to load
the incubator when I noticed something. I out my reading glasses on, to look
close and found a little printed red stamp with an egg producers details
and "best before december 2004" on it. I phoned the woman up and she made
some excuses about how he husband would only eat bought eggs and this must
have got mixed up with the eggs from he hens by mistake. What a load of
baloney. Who has hens and buys in eggs? Who puts 3 months old bought in
eggs, with her freshly laid eggs? Then she tells me she only has 2 hens so
the eggs I got wee likely to be older than a week. I won't hold my breath
that anything will hatch. People like her make me mad because she gives the
rest of us a bad name.What a waste of £10!

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