Toknarok

        Yes they're tricky birds to breed. They all start laying at once, around Songkraan time, for most of the year you have no eggs, and then for a month or so you have dozens.

        I have been successful in getting eggs to hatch under broody hens. I found the success rate very poor, most of the eggs appeared to be infertile. I also had bad luck with them, I had 20 or so young chicks, hens, turkeys and guinea fowl, in a 'nursery' pen. Once night a couple of bloody cats broke in, and not being content with eating one or to they killed the bloody lot. It hate cats, nothing but killing machines.

       Persevere with trying to hatch the eggs under domestic fowl. However as soon as they hatch remove them from the hen, she'll likely as not kill them.

      Plenty of incubators on Lazada.

37 minutes ago, Fex Bluse said:

Yes a bit like the Thais' theft of Cambodian temples along the border. 

     What theft and what temples? Are you referring the Pra Wihem (sp) dispute? That was judged to be Cambodian by the Int. Court of Justice after the border dispute went to them for determination ?.  The Thais never did steal it.

     American museums have previous convictions for this sort of thing. In the 1970's a stolen lintel from Panom Rung Temple Buriram which went missing during the Vet. War was found in a Chicago museum. They refused to return it, but after a lot of wrangling and pressure they did so, only after a considerable 'ransom' had been paid.

    I cannot post the link I found as it is from the Bangkok Post, but just Google 'Phanom Rung stolen artifact' and it should come up.

     I knew a bloke that on Saturday mornings he would go round to various churches in the city looking for wedding notifications in the entrance. He noted the dale and time of the wedding(s) to be held that day. He would then go home, dress in his Sunday best and mingle with the waiting crowd at the church.

     He would casually ask where the reception was being held, and after the ceremony would proceed to the venue once again mingling with the crowd as they entered. There never once was any sort of check to see invitations. He would sit down and enjoy free food and drink for the rest of the afternoon.

    Only once when he got to the reception venue he was horrified to see that all the tables had names allocated to the seats and he was forced to beat a hasty retreat!

     Great read thanks. Your shitty day made mine.

       Sorry to be a bit of a killjoy but will the airlines let you fly with your condition? Maybe best to not let them know.

       I,m very glad that the Aussie Govt. gives those pensioners living abroad the twice yearly pension increases, unlike the UK which freezes the aged pension if you move to Thailand. These increases tend to offset the deteriorating of the Oz dollar.

      Last month a friend of mine moved back to OZ, he lives in Adelaide. From what he has informed me most things are NOT cheaper in Aust. One cannot live off cheese and wine. Try $25 a kilo for lleg of lamb from Coles on special. (I can get for much less than that in Makro) $52 kilo for rack of lamb, $4-$5 dollars for a cup of coffee, $8 dollars for a midi (about half pint) of beer.

     Rental properties are exorbitant, if you can manage to find one. The number of homeless people

in the so called 'lucky' country is alarming and rising.

    No I think I'll hang on here with my family, the 'nanny state' isn't for me.

    30 years ago I was getting about 17 baht to thr dollar. Since then pensions have increased significantly to offset today's drop against the baht.

       Do they teach first aid in Thai schools? I don't think so. I wasn't taught it at school either, but I was a Boy Scout and it was certainly part of our activities.

       All primary schools have one day a week that Scouts or Guides is compulsory, you're never too young to learn about first aid and teaching the basics would be a very good start.

       25 years ago I was on Koh Samet. It was the beginning a long Thai weekend and lots of Thais were coming to the island. I sat on the arrivals boat jetty and watched the ferries heavily loaded with visitors dock. 99% of these visitors were Thai.

       Without fail every time a boat was pulling up to the dock, many of the passengers would jettison their garbage overboard. Plastic water bottles, and wrappers that had been used whilst on their short trip were casually tossed overboard.

      All the non-biodegradable crap. That was 25 years ago so it doesn't take any imagination to fathom out why Pattaya and it's environs beaches are such a mess today.

           Smoking serves no purpose whatsoever except to alleviate the cravings of the addicts. The fact that the smog/haze is also hazardous is a bit of a straw man argument. Lead in petrol has been banned for ages, and if the Thai police did their job properly and prosecuted field burners and ensured vehicles were properly maintained the problem would be far less.

             Belching buses have a purpose, they carry people from A to B, as do ships and planes.

 The purpose of burning fields is to prepare for the next crop. What is the purpose of smoking?

           As for tobacco companies their behavior over the years has been appalling.John Oliver sums it up nicely. He does it in an amusing way but really the subject is DEADLY serious.

     The answer is of course to get yourself an electric mobility scooter. I roll around quite happily on mine, often accompanied by my dog.

     No road tax and no insurance. No need to wear a helmet and 3 or 4 wheels are infinitely safer than two. No noisy exhaust, no air polluting emissions, and with the new lithium batteries they have a surprising range, a quite a good performance (some will do 40kph which is quite enough for running around the town.

    I predict more and morepeople will get these eco-friendly machines. Then of course if they get too popular the bloody Govt. will find a way to tax them.

     OK fellers fair enough, either you love or hate them. I don't think that there's any doubt that they a great table bird.

     The reason I asked is 'can you tell the difference between the males and females? They look alike and are more or less the same size.They say that the calls are different according to their sex, they all sound somewhat similar. (Youtube doesn't help much).

      I have seen both turkeys and cockerels mounting a guinea F. hen.

      A few days ago a a couple of fowl eggs hatched and produced a strange chick. It wasn't like the normal fowl chick (keets) but was very black in feather colour.

      I was wondering if this was a hybrid. Google states only birda from the same family can interbreed. Do fowls have similar genomes to turkeys or chickens?

          Does anyone else on this forum keep these noisy, chattering birds?

        What I would like to know is What was the overall voter turnout for these elections. (Google doesn't say). How many people did not bother to vote, turnout in local council elections are usually low.

        Why what I heard there were a large number of spoiled papers, in addition I think that if Farage's party had been contesting the overall result would be quite different. UKIP has earned itself a somewhat unsavoury reputation and many voters would have chosen the L/Dems. to punish the two major parties.

3 hours ago, jgarbo said:

You don't understand the morning ritual. The offering of food obviously nourishes the monks, who show humility by walking barefoot. Giving the food confers merit on the giver. Learn something about Buddhism or stay in a bar.

         Yes I know about Buddhist and humility, but why do I not see it in Thailand? Ever been into a monks quarters? I have many times and I am amazed at the amount of expensive electrical equipment they have. Then I see monks talking on their fancy mobile phones and peeling 500 baht notes of a fat roll in order to top the phone up - that is the reason I don't give to them. I worked hard all my life for my money, unlike many of them who get a saffron robe, shave their head and shuffle around shoeless begging in the mornings.

       There again I suppose passing the plate around in a church is also a type of begging. I don't do that either as all forms of religion including Buddhism are nonsense.

     Further to my original OP about this brand new dispenser I passed it yesterday only to see that it had a sign 'out of order'. Wow a whole 10 days of operation, is this a Thai record?

      In our village the authorities have recently installed a water dispenser. Basically it's a hut with large tanks, pipes and meters inside. One places your container under the spigot and for the princely sum of 5 baht the machine delivers 20 litres of water.

     This water is half the price of the potable water delivered by the numerous vans around the district. I dare say many of the money concious locals will use it. Personally I can't be fagged, carrying 2o litres in this heat and will pay the extra 5 baht to have the bottles delivered.

      Any other village have this set up?