They walk amongst us.

You are doomed and soon it will be morehens disease kicking in. Lots of wise people on this forum with many years experience to point you on the right track
 
oh i know my doom is already sealed, its just a case of how long i can hold them off haha!
 
At least morehens disease is not fatal and brings a great deal of pleasure with it.

I have just integrated my 6 Croad growers (I now have 10) with my others and expected a good deal of hen fisticuffs, amazed for there to be none at all. They really are such ladies!

Only grotty old Jojo and Amber the Blacktail showed any animosity and I think quite honestly Jojo does not know which way is up, she seems well but loopy. She is the fattest Speckeldy ever.

My Pekins are coming along beautifully, I have loads, but just want to replace Blanche, fox victim last year, and keep a few of the really pretty ones.

You see, my morehens is getting really bad.
 
Cure is fairly simple for morehens disease and you don't have to get past the receptionist at the doctors, then wait 3 weeks for an appointment.
Like you I have just integrated some new hens, all went very well, considering, too hot to quarrel, more sitting underneath the laurel bush or ornamental grass sort of day
 
Got this off a Facebook share;

A North Island police station received this question from a resident through the feedback section of a local Police website:

“I would like to know how it is possible for police officers to continually harass people and get away with it?”

In response, a sergeant posted this reply:

First of all, let me tell you this ... it’s not easy. In the Palmerston North and rural area we average one cop for every 505 people. Only about 60 per cent of those cops are on general duty (or what you might refer to as “general patrols”) where we do most of our harassing.

The rest are in non-harassing units that do not allow them contact with the day to day innocents. At any given moment, only one-fifth of the 60 per cent of general patrols are on duty and available for harassing people while the rest are off duty. So, roughly, one cop is responsible for harassing about 6000 residents.

When you toss in the commercial business and tourist locations that attract people from other areas, sometimes you have a situation where a single cop is responsible for harassing 15,000 or more people a day.

Now, your average eight-hour shift runs 28,800 seconds long. This gives a cop two-thirds of a second to harass a person, and then only another third of a second to drink a Massey iced coffee AND then find a new person to harass. This is not an easy task. To be honest, most cops are not up to the challenge day in and day out. It is just too tiring. What we do is utilise some tools to help us narrow down those people we can realistically harass.

PHONE: People will call us up and point out things that cause us to focus on a person for special harassment. “My neighbour is beating his wife” is a code phrase used often. This means we’ll come out and give somebody some special harassment. Another popular one is, “There’s a guy breaking into a house.” The harassment team is then put into action.

CARS: We have special cops assigned to harass people who drive. They like to harass the drivers of fast cars, cars with no insurance or drivers with no licences and the like. It’s lots of fun when you pick them out of traffic for nothing more obvious than running a red light. Sometimes you get to really heap the harassment on when you find they have drugs in the car, they are drunk, or have an outstanding warrant on file.

LAWS: When we don’t have phone or cars, and have nothing better to do, there are actually books that give us ideas for reasons to harass folks. They are called “statutes”. These include the Crimes Act, Summary Offences Act, Land Transport Act and a whole bunch of others... They spell out all sorts of things for which you can really mess with people. After you read the law, you can just drive around for a while until you find someone violating one of these listed offences and harass them. Just last week I saw a guy trying to steal a car. Well, the book says that’s not allowed. That meant I had permission to harass this guy.

It is a really cool system that we have set up, and it works pretty well. We seem to have a never-ending supply of folks to harass. And we get away with it. Why? Because, for the good citizens who pay the tab, we try to keep the streets safe for them, and they pay us to “harass” some people.

Next time you are in Palmerston North, give me the old “single finger wave”. That’s another one of those codes. It means, “You can harass me.” It’s one of our favourites.
 
A police officer pulls over a speeding car. The officer says "I clocked you at 80 miles per hour in a restricted area, sir."
The driver says "Gee, officer, I had it on cruise control at 30, perhaps your radar gun needs calibrating."
Not looking up from her knitting, his wife says "Now don't be silly, dear, you know that this car doesn't have cruise control.'
As the officer writes out the ticket, the driver looks at his wife and growls "Could you keep your mouth shut for once?"
The wife smiles demurely and says "You should be thankful your radar detector went off when it did.'
As the officer makes out a second ticket for the illegal radar detector unit, the man glowers at his wife and says through clenched teeth "Darn it, woman, can't you keep your mouth shut?"
The officer frowns at the man and says "And I notice you're not wearing your seatbelt, sir. That's an automatic $75 fine."
The driver says "Yeah, well, you see, officer, I did have it on, but took it off when you pulled me over so I could get my licence out of my back pocket."
The wife says, "Now, dear, you know very well you didn't have your seatbelt on. You never wear your seatbelt when you're driving."
And as the officer is writing out the third ticket, the driver turns to his wife and barks
'YOU STUPID WOMAN, WHY CAN''T YOU JUST BLOODY WELL SHUT UP?'
The officer looks over at the woman and asks 'Does your husband always talk to you this way, Ma'am?"
"Only when he's been drinking."
 
Today on the bus a girl was on her phone very loud voice and ordered a bra. So we all knew the size and colour. She then gave out her name and full address followed by all her credit card card details. Then wondered why the woman behind pointed out that she had just opened herself up to identity theft big time, and then said I mean the bus driver looks foreign and dodgy to me. I speak perfect estuary English.
The girl just couldn't see how anyone could use this info as she was only ordering a bra
 
"... so I just need to ask you some questions for security;
"What colour is your bra?"
"Blue"
"Correct! What can we do for you today Miss Roberts?"
It's worrying that the passenger thought, with a whole bus full of possible fraudsters, that using the bus driver as an example of a 'dodgy person' was cool. I suppose you had your hands free and the inclination to be writing all that down while driving?
If so - spill the beans :)
 
I wonder what visions she was conjuring in people's minds. Is it an offence to distract the driver when on a bus?
As for the 'foreign and dodgy-looking bus driver,' some people just don't appreciate style when they see it!
 
Quite agree Marigold - on style appreciation that is.

Hen-Gen does "slapper" have the same meaning it had in my youth, and what (or who) is a dweeb?
 
Thanks Marigold, some people just don't appreciate style do they?
Yes it is an offence to distract the driver, no hands free, it is instant dismissal if you use a phone on a bus, even if it is stationary. We could download the CCTV and get the details though
Most of the foreigners on the bus probably didn't speak English so she was probably safe on that score, so even if they had been of a criminal mind.
 
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