Big bad Basil and her good egg
You could not, with a straight face, say that Basil is a small hen.
She is noticeably larger than Sybil in all dimensions. Her legs are particularly robust, and she is even a slightly different shape. In fact, with her colouring, she looks remarkably like a small dodo – if you ignore her head, and her remarkable lack of extinction.
You could not, with a straight face, say that Basil is a reliable layer. She has only laid about five eggs that we have been able to identify as hers. One giveaway, however, is that they are occasionally quite large eggs.
Yesterday’s was one of her largest – it is about the size of a Honda Civic.
Which ties in, disturbingly, with my brother’s most recent post.
Posted: November 14th, 2006 under Animals, The Girls.
Comments: 6
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Comment from Cheerful One
Time: November 15, 2006, 4:46 pm
Poor Basil. Lumbered with an irascible man’s name and the tendency to produce jumbo eggs. No wonder she produces erratically.
Comment from Damian
Time: November 15, 2006, 5:26 pm
Yes, she is a bit bad tempered.
Comment from Dad
Time: November 16, 2006, 12:21 pm
When I was young, your grandparents (Granddad & Mutti) had a house in Cecil St Gordon and my Dad decided to keep Bantams. Some escaped and he had to spend one night clambering around the neighbours backyards trying to recover these, wring their necks and reduce the complaints that had gone to Council about these feral chooks. We all refused to eat them…..they were pets. If you go around that part of Gordon, there are probably some of these birds still haunting the area.
By the way, how did Basil get her name and why is a male named Bantam laying eggs?….maybe she is a cross with the feral Gordon breed !!!!!
Comment from Damian
Time: November 16, 2006, 12:51 pm
He wrung their necks – that’s gross! Although I was thinking I’d have to do the same thing if the fox mauls one of them.
Basil and Sybil are named after Basil and Sybil Fawlty. I wanted a quail named Manuel too, but KB drew the line.
Basil isn’t a bantam, she’s some sort of grey breed, and very large. I think Sybil is bantam because she is so much smaller – she’s very similar to Emma Chook, who used to live next-door at Turramurra.
Comment from mad muthas
Time: November 17, 2006, 10:37 pm
you’re sure she’s not part ostrich?
Comment from The Divine Miss E
Time: November 22, 2006, 10:47 pm
I would be bad tempered too if I laid something like that! Have you seen the Gordon Ramsay series “F-word”? He is keeping turkeys with his kids that they are fattening up for Xmas. You cant eat something that you have named! It justbrings to mind too many images on canabalism.
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