supose i had better introduce myself properly...

Gooner Girl · Post by **Gooner Girl** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 6:52 pm

...though dunno how long i will stick around for given i don't have many pearls of wisdom to spout on Bolton Wanderers but you seem a nice lot.

I'm Helen, 29, live in Sussex and a gooner (went to first match in '93 and get up there about a handful of times a season, fave players - Dennis Bergkamp, Paul Merson and Tony Adams - had 3 mice named after them as a kid!)

I teach PE part time at a local private school and also do other bits of sports coaching. Am a qualified football coach and used to play a bit myself - left winger - but now do mostly athletics coaching and a bit of competing (triple jump)

Found this forum through my very good friend thebish who i met as we are mutual chicken keepers. Share my house with hubby, dog, 2 cats, 4 chickens and 3 ducks and thats about it really. Can usually be found on Gooners world forum - www.goonersworld.co.uk/forum

bobo the clown · Post by **bobo the clown** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 7:22 pm

I hope you do stick around a while, Helen. Looking at the current main page you'll see some animosity .... I think largely aimed at the "we're big & you ren't", "you're a set of cloggers" and the result of the poor tackle last night which flies in the face of much of the reasons for us being attacked.

Overall, however, the Arsenal team do play an attractive form of football & generally I admire that.

Left wing, eh. Don't answer any call from a guy called Megson, he'll be trying to see if you could drop to left-back.

Puskas · Post by **Puskas** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 7:48 pm

Hello.

So how big...sorry...

More pertinent questions - you keep chickens, you say. Where do you keep them? What do you feed them on? And have you noticed any oddly cooperative behaviour between them, as they attempt escapes?

Bruce Rioja · Post by **Bruce Rioja** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 8:04 pm

Do you keep Rhode Island Reds and White Silkies?

Gooner Girl · Post by **Gooner Girl** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 10:02 pm

Would like to give you the impression bobo that not ALL gooners are a bunch of numptys. There really are some sensible, realistic ones around to.

As for the chickens i rescue ex battery hens with thebish so most of mine aren't fancy breeds but look something like this:

My ducks are fancy breeds though i have 2 khaki campbell girls and a male call duck called Thierry

Gooner Girl · Post by **Gooner Girl** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 10:03 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:Do you keep Rhode Island Reds and White Silkies?

Ahhh, i just see what you did there!

Bit slow on the uptake this evening...

Lord Kangana · Post by **Lord Kangana** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 10:04 pm

Is it true that its harder to wring a duck's neck than a chicken's?

Gooner Girl · Post by **Gooner Girl** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 10:08 pm

Lord Kangana wrote:Is it true that its harder to wring a duck's neck than a chicken's?

Don't know, never tried but i would suspect so. If mine haven't died of natural causes or the fox they have had a peaceful sleep courtesey of the vets. I don't mind putting my hand up a cows arse but the thought of killing chickens is not sop pleasent!

Verbal · Post by **Verbal** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 10:14 pm

Hello

obviously you've kinda joined during the eye of the storm, that'll pass though over time. Probably about 5 years.

But yeah, hi. Enjoy. Or tolerate, as 99% of us do.

Bruce Rioja · Post by **Bruce Rioja** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 10:19 pm

boltonaremysecondteam wrote:
Bruce Rioja wrote:Do you keep Rhode Island Reds and White Silkies?
Ahhh, i just see what you did there! Bit slow on the uptake this evening...

No worries.

Rhode Island Reds are beautiful birds that peck each other to death in batteries. I know this having been the boy that's had to pull the dead ones out and leave them for the fox.
Please, everyone, standard eggs (laid by battery hens) don't taste of anything anyway, so just don't buy them!!!

Lord Kangana · Post by **Lord Kangana** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 10:24 pm

They're also lower in essential minerals, and thousands of times more likely to poison you.

And just to p*ss everyone off, every year 100's of thousands of battery eggs get mixed up and sold as free range.

Bruce Rioja · Post by **Bruce Rioja** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 10:27 pm

Lord Kangana wrote:
And just to p*ss everyone off, every year 100's of thousands of battery eggs get mixed up and sold as free range.

Are we sure about that, Kango? The yolk's a dead giveaway.

Lord Kangana · Post by **Lord Kangana** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 10:28 pm

Indeed. And because all meats go through the same abatoirs now, you're as likely to get salmonella from a free range chicken as a battery one.

All true.

finlayson · Post by **finlayson** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 10:51 pm

boltonaremysecondteam wrote:my very good friend thebish who i met as we are mutual chicken keepers.

Is one a bugger for giving the other a piggyback over the wall?

Do they eat Indian corn?

Bruce Rioja · Post by **Bruce Rioja** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 10:57 pm

Lord Kangana wrote:Indeed. And because all meats go through the same abatoirs now, you're as likely to get salmonella from a free range chicken as a battery one.

All true.

OK, help me out here. When Im buying a free-range, corn-fed, organic chicken or Poussin, my rule of thumb is that the fecking thing's yellow. It looks like it's smoked 60 a day. Have I got this wrong?

Lord Kangana · Post by **Lord Kangana** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 11:01 pm

Generally yes, thats the corn they feed them, usually in the last week or so of their lives, to give them a loely yellow colour that makes people think "ooh, that looks natural". It can be fed to any bird, free-range or not. This next bit I'm hazy on, but I believe (like with farmed salmon) they are now feeding colour supplements to hens to combat the insipid yolk colour problem.

And hundreds of thousands was an underestimate, they reckon it was 30 million in 2006.

Gooner Girl · Post by **Gooner Girl** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 11:18 pm

keep your own chickens - then you'll know your egg is free range.

Actually, the real issue now is not so much people not buying free range eggs in the supermarket - most are aware and do try to - its the hidden eggs in things like mayonaise and cakes etc etc that are largely battery eggs. Also the eggs used in catering - restauraunts and stuff like that.

Abdoulaye's Twin · Post by **Abdoulaye's Twin** » Fri Jan 22, 2010 9:46 am

Anyone see that Jimmy's Farm programme last night? He visited some pig farm in the US. A disgrace it was. 1000s of pigs in pens barely big enough to fit in. They'd lead a male pig down past all the females to get them worked up but wouldn't let them get it on! They reckoned they sent 1,500 or so pigs to slaughter every week. The western world needs to have a word with itself about the way it consumes (and wastes food) and expect to pay feck all for it.

Maybe I should put this in the angry thread?

Gooner Girl · Post by **Gooner Girl** » Fri Jan 22, 2010 9:53 am

Oh pants. Missed it. meant to watch as I enjoyed the first one about Australia. I'm big into farm animal welfare - it's one of my passions. As well as rescuing battery chickens with the bish I run the mid Sussex branch of compassion in world farming - www.ciwf.org.uk

Hoboh · Post by **Hoboh** » Fri Jan 22, 2010 10:17 am

Verbal wrote:Hello

obviously you've kinda joined during the eye of the storm, that'll pass though over time. Probably about 5 years.

But yeah, hi. Enjoy. Or tolerate, as 99% of us do.

Yep we are all tolerant on here.
I'm doing a curry this weekend you got any spare chickens? Asda are so pricey at the moment.
Take heart dear girl SOMEONE has to watch Arsenal I suppose.
Left winger?I'm a bit of a right winger myself.
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