The qty's are growing!

Wow, things are started to explode! Last time I posted I had the grand number of 4 laying hen's....since Then:

I ventured into the mart on Tuesday morning (after meeting with the manager of the bank who were stupid enough to give me euros to buy a house, I had to explain that on my new limited income as a poulty farmer I couldnt afford that EXTRORDINARY amount they were requesting off me montly) (not that I could afford it when I had a decent income either!) So, down I drove with my unsuspecting uncle in tow, to meet the Poultry Man. And, as if i was trying to enter Lillies on a Sat night I had to queue, for nearly a half hour! And as you do when your queueing, you start to think! So instead of buying one or two things I purchased the following: 4 broiler turkeys (for the Chistmas dinner) 5 broiler chickens (for the next couple of dinners) and 2 baby ducklings (because i saw them and they looked cool!) So off out home with them and on to my next adventure, the swap of my 1995 Mitsibishi FTO sports car for a 1989 jeep! mad? well I'll put it this way,we codded each other! So, girlfriend in tow ( I swear, most patient woman in the country) we cruised up to Kildare to meet our new wheels! And boy were they cool, 1989 Blue Land Rover Defender with roof rack! Well I thought it was cool, I'll quote her..."Ah,is that what you were expecting". And she looked very unimpressed when I said it was....maybe sometihng to do with the fact I had previously informed her that it would be the perfect mobile to take us to her upcoming grad?!

So, deal done and off home, fairy uneventful other than the fact her door opened as we went around a roundabout! eek..... yes, shes still with me, I told her thats what seat belts are for!

So, now with my grand total of 15 peieces of farm yard fowl and tiny budget left I had to do something different to increase my population! So back to the first man who so kindly took my money to buy a cock! Rang him, "Hey, you have a cock down there (please no jokes!)" to which he repleied Yup, sure do, ten euros thank you verymuch!" Drove down (in my new wheels, I'm a real farmer now) Learnt back door opens on bumps, very irritating! There he was, a big Light Sussex cock in all his glory. But I forgopt my crate so into a bag with him after tieing his two legs together! I'm down there now thinking to myself, no pont having that fine pure bred cock with out having a pure bred hen for him to play with. I enquire about same to which my money hungry freind replies that he'd have one of them. Into his HUGE pen of various stock he goes and arrives out with one pullet....or so he thinks! And how do you know the difference? Its next to impossible when there young so he dangles a ring off a peice of string and hangs it at its arse! And depending on the way he reacts its meant to be an idicater of sex! We'll wait and see! So money time again and he was 20 squids! And the money is getting slack now! So argy bargy hagling to no avail I get him to throw in another hen! A speckled sussex! qrand stock total 18!


On a down side I'm broke now as I've yet to make any money from this poultry business! No interest in my beatifully designed hen ark! (am I too dear or are people not buying them, I dunno!) I also have a sick stomach to which her majesty is adament is from my fresh free range egggs!She fails to see they all come from the same place no matter where there bought.....a chickens arse!!!!


Jay