Re: Rabbits Renamed "Poultry" and OT: newsreader

In article <1h1cqyo.hz1kf4p4f8twN%fowls@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
fowls@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (nuele mersch) wrote:

> OmManiPadmeOmelet <Omelet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > They are serious eye candy... :-)
> > We have an african game rooster that is our flock rooster, and they are
> > also VERY long lived compared to more modern laying breeds! I have a
> > little white game hen that is at least 10 years old now and still going
> > strong. She does not lay a lot of eggs, but she is a top rate mommy bird!
> >
> > Amazing broodies.
>
>
> Hi Om

<waves> Hi!

>
>
> Most purebreds get older than hybrids, and my impression is that bantams
> get older than the big breeds. My friend had a little Dutch bantam hen
> (the ones they call "sabelpoot" there). She got her as a present from
> her Granddad when she had just started to go to school, and the hen was
> still there when she left school. This little hen was sixteen when she
> died! I believe this is rare, but I have a nine year old bantie out
> there in my yard, and some of Tina's Appenzeller hens still lay the odd
> egg at the age of ten.
>
> I like game breeds, too. (But then, being addicted, I like almost every
> chicken breed ;-) some have even said the breed I keep looks a bit like
> one (but isn't). A Shamo breeder I once spoke to at a show said his
> birds got ever so tame, the only game birds I've heard to be aggressive
> against humans were Old English Game cockerels.

I've been amazed at how hardy they are.
I'll probably eventually switch over to just game breeds.
I can't keep many birds due to a city ordinance, so they are more for
eye candy than anything else.

>
> Nuele (D)
>
> PS.
> I wouldn't have opened this thread normally, if I hadn't seen your
> name. I don't usually open posts that have been crossposted to more than
> two groups, mostly they are a waste of time.

Thank you!

> I see you are using MT-NewsWatcher, is that a program you would
> recommend also for reading mailing lists? I love MacSOUP for reading
> newsgroups, but it's not very good at threading the posts of the mailing
> list I've subscribed to, and I'm still looking for an alternative.
> Thanks!

I LOVE MT!
You have the option of threading or not, but even if you decide not to
thread, there is an option to hit "sort by subject" at the top everytime
you open a newsgroup and you can easily mark some threads as "read" then
"erase read" to clean up the screen. You can also sort by date and
author.

I like it better than anything else I've ever tried. :-)

I think it's a free download.....

Cheers!
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Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson
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