Eggs from Ebay

I’ve been watching with great anticipation and eagerness the postings going on over at ‘lever pulled’ dreamboat’s, sorry, DAVE’s lovely new blog which has captured some of his inner innocence and softness quite beautifully in recent days. As a friend just pointed out to me, ‘it showed him in a whole new light’- not something the $%&^£ Channel 4 you bunch of F*^%g c%&*ts post captured as effectively.

Basically Dave is covering the plight of the pigeon who has laid her egg, well eggs, on a precarious ledge on the Nth floor of a rather tall purpose built block of flats. So far we’ve had high drama including ‘egg rolls from nest’ amongst others (well, actually that was it.) Last we heard Dave had intervened and placed the wayward egg back in the next alongside its brother or sister, so for the time being, all we can do is wait. I’m heading over to Dave’s on Saturday so I’ll be able to do some first hand reporting for your delight and entertainment.

Anyway, whilst on the topic of eggs and hatching, it amazed me to discover that you can actually buy fertilized eggs from ebay, which arrive the next day. Broody hens (and possibly pigeons) apparently have a spooky sixth sense and detect when an egg is a ‘good egg’ and will then happily sit on it and hatch it. I was wondering whether we might buy an egg for our pigeon and see what happens when she hatched a tiny chick, rather than a mini pigeon. It would be worth it to see the look on her face, and I think it could turn into an amazing scientific experiment as well as something we can all talk about for weeks and months to come. The chick, once hatched could be dispatched to Ant’s small plot of land where he tends to vegetables….allotment, that’s it. And could scratch around happily for the rest of its days. It’s a win win situation, surely?

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