The more observant of you will be thinking...hmmm that carpet python looks like it could be in the chookery (correct) and it seems to have quite a substantial bulge in its serpentine belly (correct). Unfortunately, our once-python proof chookery is not so python-proof anymore. Our friend (and my colleague) Mieke gave us two gorgeous little Belgian bantams a couple of months ago which she had bred on her farm. I noticed that one was missing on Monday when I came home from work and I thought that a goanna that we had seen on Sunday might have got her, or perhaps a hawk or eagle had taken her. I hoped of course that she would turn up, Lassie-like, the next morning. However, Steve made the sighting of the python on Tuesday...with the bulge...but it's a beautiful animal...this is the python I blogged about last February after I found it down by the creek, digesting a bandicoot...Shane and I saw it again a few months ago sunning itself on McGuinness Road as well...
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Sadness
The more observant of you will be thinking...hmmm that carpet python looks like it could be in the chookery (correct) and it seems to have quite a substantial bulge in its serpentine belly (correct). Unfortunately, our once-python proof chookery is not so python-proof anymore. Our friend (and my colleague) Mieke gave us two gorgeous little Belgian bantams a couple of months ago which she had bred on her farm. I noticed that one was missing on Monday when I came home from work and I thought that a goanna that we had seen on Sunday might have got her, or perhaps a hawk or eagle had taken her. I hoped of course that she would turn up, Lassie-like, the next morning. However, Steve made the sighting of the python on Tuesday...with the bulge...but it's a beautiful animal...this is the python I blogged about last February after I found it down by the creek, digesting a bandicoot...Shane and I saw it again a few months ago sunning itself on McGuinness Road as well...
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Oh that's so very sad. What do you do with the python now? Leave it there? It won't feed for a while I suppose. But then it won't be able to get out with that big dinner on board will it? How do you python proof a chook yard?
Awwww, that's sad. But that's nature. I have no more young bantam hens left at the moment, though hopefully there's a last late brood hatching in about 3 weeks ...
I can supply either a lovely black mottle cockerel, or a silver/blue, who might make some bubbas with your remaining hen though, if you like.
(my secret mission: reinvigorate the flagging genetic diversity of the average home flock... see for example http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/11/04/lack-of-genetic-diversity-in-the-chicken-coop-could-worsen-bird-flu-outbreaks/)
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