On animals, long hair over their eyes is a danger to them because they cannot see to forage and they cannot avoid predators if they can’t see them. Lacking hands to brush the stuff out of their eyes or use to tie it back, they are badly handicapped.
It is rather cruel of humans to breed animals to be dependent on them for a hair-cut, whether the animal be sheep which die of their fleeces if they are not sheared or Old English Sheep-dogs which blunder into things and eventually go blind because of the hair we have bred them to have. Hens having mops obscuring their eyes is not something evolution would have done to them.
Hence most of us who cannot devote the time and who care for our pets will keep dogs puppy clipped
I imagine hens are similar
I was just being facetious as I think I am a lover of all zoology and would never think of hurting or mistreating any beastie
Yesterday I was captured and rendered motionless for half an hour watching a newly fledged lady blackbird bathing and sunbathing dry a metre or two from me
I was enchanted and the thrills go on as the hare seems to like our garden
Yes I stop dead and stay still to let it do its thing then lollop off
I have a question for the combined wisdom of the cellar.
At the beginning of October 2017 I bought
200g sunflower seeds
200g super seed mix
40g pine nut kernels
175g pumpkin seeds
for some ploy or other, and not using them all for whatever it was, I put what was left of each into a sealed jar, with the label from the packet cut out and put inside so I would know what they were.
Are these likely to be good for anything, at this point? (“If so, what?” can wait until the first question is answered.)
