https://www.vetsurgeon.org/f/non-clinical-questions/12898/animals-eating-brambles I didn&#39;t used to think too much of my dog picking brambles off the branches when we went brambling together (nibble, nibble at the branches within reach) until I went brambling in a field of sucker cows last night. The COWS were going along the lineen-USTelligent Community 10https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/73253?ContentTypeID=1Tue, 02 Oct 2012 10:50:45 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:76426dbf-27d8-44dc-aa5b-691a679248e2Rob Davis<p>[quote user=&quot;james herriot lied&quot;]</p> <p>[quote user=&quot;Sarah Keir&quot;]&nbsp; </p> <p>I&#39;ve had these consequences with elderflower champagne and cider. Luckily they were both in plastic bottles so didn&#39;t have glass shards to clear up but the sticky mess was all over the utility room!!!!</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p> [/quote] </p> <p>First attempt was in not-airtight glass bottles, which meant the champagne went flat almost straight away. So the next time, I put it in San Miguel bottles, screwed up tight. Six o&#39;clock in the morning, it sounded like the kitchen windows had been stoved in.</p> <p>There was literally a blast radius, with tiny shards of glass stuck in the plasterwork, the dresser and the celing beams. Anyone who&#39;d been in the room at the time would have looked like they&#39;d been grated.</p> <p>Haven&#39;t actually bothered since.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p>Use 2 litre plastic fizzy drink bottles. They often end up with rounded bottoms so they won&#39;t stand up, but I&#39;ve not yet had one explode. DON&#39;T open them inside though - it is often like the effect of adding mentos to coke....</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/73222?ContentTypeID=1Mon, 01 Oct 2012 20:27:31 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:e8b54d9a-b2d4-42a3-b5ee-4a7f59b8f56bJoyce Whitehead<p>Good friend makes Blackberry Brandy (similar method to sloe gin), absolutely delicious, warms up our winter walks no end with a nip mid walk. &nbsp;Definitely a tradition on our New Year&#39;s Day walk, hair of the dog and all that! &nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/73220?ContentTypeID=1Mon, 01 Oct 2012 19:49:12 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:26ce7bcd-5239-4091-84e8-16c1d9f08a23james herriot lied<p>[quote user=&quot;Sarah Keir&quot;]&nbsp; <p>I&#39;ve had these consequences with elderflower champagne and cider. Luckily they were both in plastic bottles so didn&#39;t have glass shards to clear up but the sticky mess was all over the utility room!!!!</p> <div style="CLEAR:both;"></div> [/quote]</p> <p>First attempt was in not-airtight glass bottles, which meant the champagne went flat almost straight away. So the next time, I put it in San Miguel bottles, screwed up tight. Six o&#39;clock in the morning, it sounded like the kitchen windows had been stoved in.</p> <p>There was literally a blast radius, with tiny shards of glass stuck in the plasterwork, the dresser and the celing beams. Anyone who&#39;d been in the room at the time would have looked like they&#39;d been grated.</p> <p>Haven&#39;t actually bothered since.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/73215?ContentTypeID=1Mon, 01 Oct 2012 18:01:00 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:3131772a-745d-4b86-9728-c7181a27a82bSarah Keir<p>[quote user=&quot;Hannah Wynne Richards&quot;] <p>Don&#39;t do what my mother once did Bottled a batch of elderberry wine too soon My father and I thought she could have made a fortune selling the recipe to the Ministry of Defence It really was high explosive Of course, she maintained there was nothing at all wrong with the wine-the 1st bottle must have been cracked-and the next-and thenext -and the next</p> <p>Wynne</p> <div style="CLEAR:both;"></div> [/quote]</p> <p>I&#39;ve had these consequences with elderflower champagne and cider. Luckily they were both in plastic bottles so didn&#39;t have glass shards to clear up but the sticky mess was all over the utility room!!!!</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/73208?ContentTypeID=1Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:48:54 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:24326327-f40e-4121-bab3-199c84e3e337Hannah Wynne Richards<p>Don&#39;t do what my mother once did Bottled a batch of elderberry wine too soon My father and I thought she could have made a fortune selling the recipe to the Ministry of Defence It really was high explosive Of course, she maintained there was nothing at all wrong with the wine-the 1st bottle must have been cracked-and the next-and thenext -and the next</p> <p>Wynne</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/73091?ContentTypeID=1Sat, 29 Sep 2012 12:00:21 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:01b946f8-8f21-47ea-adf8-c31609a3b0daplantagenet<p>Not many sloes though. Our GSD used to pick her own sloes, current&nbsp; lab is an avid blackberry picker.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/73088?ContentTypeID=1Sat, 29 Sep 2012 11:40:19 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:90ffe954-191f-4694-825b-6507650db55eNeil Wheadon<p>Sorry forgot to quote</p> <p>[quote user=&quot;Utlendigur&quot;]Similar problem but raspberries and Jack Russell - kept seeing them almost ripe, but they&#39;d disappear before I got to pick them![/quote]</p> <p>Crikey</p> <p>Great Dane bitches</p> <p>Raspberries</p> <p> Is there anything a Jack Russell can&#39;t reach?</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/73087?ContentTypeID=1Sat, 29 Sep 2012 11:39:00 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:cd7dd88b-9451-4e1f-90b6-6f4fd7c7a8cfNeil Wheadon<p>Crikey</p> <p>Great Dane bitches</p> <p>Raspberries</p> <p>Is there anything a Jack Russell can&#39;t reach?<img src="https://www.vetsurgeon.org/emoticons/v2/Very_happy_smiley.png" alt="Very happy" /></p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/73050?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 28 Sep 2012 22:40:00 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:9e0ea8be-2417-4a5e-9c9f-72f3a273b5d0james herriot lied<p>A waste of perfectly good blackberries, if you ask me.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/73046?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 28 Sep 2012 22:01:10 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:f071a178-1098-469c-8804-5b5f6b8dd8dcMichael Woodhouse<p>I can thoroughly recommend blackberry whisky. </p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/73044?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 28 Sep 2012 21:37:59 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:3cd27cf7-c9d6-4825-8114-1f1c1d59f44djames herriot lied<p>ps this makes about six and a half bottles of wine, so you&#39;ll need six empty bottles.&nbsp;Which means that at the very worst, you&#39;ll have drunk six bottles of proper wine during its making. And a brown-glass demijohn is best, as the less light the darker and better the wine.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/73042?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 28 Sep 2012 21:36:06 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:11ac03f5-a4b8-4fbd-aeca-a85274175404james herriot lied<p>Blackberry wine. &lt;Homeresque dribble: uuuuuggggggggghhh.</p> <p>My recipe, as handed down through a long line of closet alkies, is extremely simple: </p> <p>3ibs blackberries, including maggots and various creepy crawlies</p> <p>2-3lbs sugar (better as a sweet wine)</p> <p>The peel and juice of two lemons - NOT PITH</p> <p>Gallon of boiled - still very hot - water</p> <p>When cooled sufficiently, add in a simple yeast</p> <p>Five days in a covered pot, stirring whenever you&#39;re passing.</p> <p>Strain through muslin into a demijohn. Warmish (22-25C) darkish place for a few months. Bottle and drink any time from immediately to very soon.</p> <p>It&#39;s fizzy. Fizzy red wine. Almost impossible to make a complete hash of, and really fruity. Don&#39;t do what I did last year, though, and throw a couple of windfall apples in. It turns into badly fermented wallpaper paste.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/73036?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 28 Sep 2012 20:23:28 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:6545b83a-96e5-401a-b3cf-9c9aaf5b7327Sarah Keir<p>Ah, Ha! Brewing! Just what I had in mind for the next batch! I&#39;ve never made it before - what is your recipe?</p> <p>Sarah</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/73026?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 28 Sep 2012 18:24:42 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:81185b77-6f20-4b01-8bd3-5e21ea221b04james herriot lied<p>Cows and brambles is common - and it&#39;s not that rare for unilateral mucopurulent nasal discharge in cows to be due to a piece of bramble up the nose. I always stick a pair of long handled forceps up there, and have twice found a manky bit of bramble - although it&#39;s not the cleanest job getting them out. <img src="https://www.vetsurgeon.org/emoticons/v2/Shocked_smiley.png" alt="Shocked" /></p> <p>Blackberries are late this year, but seem to be holding their sugar OK. Down here in Cornwall, we would usually stop picking at the end of August, as the berries after that become a bit dull and tasteless and are hopeless for brewing with. Seem to be persisting this year, after a late start.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/73023?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 28 Sep 2012 18:10:10 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:0cd56e96-f215-4931-a830-d2507e615282Utlendigur<p>[quote user=&quot;Michael Woodhouse&quot;]</p> <p>Thought it was the birds eating our strawberries until we caught the patterdale red handed!</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p>Similar problem but raspberries and Jack Russell - kept seeing them almost ripe, but they&#39;d disappear before I got to pick them!</p> <p>&nbsp;</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/73014?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 28 Sep 2012 17:21:10 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:901cfa8a-0971-400b-81f1-83f57e675524Michael Woodhouse<p>Thought it was the birds eating our strawberries until we caught the patterdale red handed!</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/73013?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 28 Sep 2012 17:19:07 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:9153910a-e562-4799-9dd4-54513a7f5668Vet2Vet<p>Yes &nbsp;, it is normal behaviour .&nbsp;</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/73009?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 28 Sep 2012 16:58:17 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:ae19fc2e-699b-4eac-a987-1befbbf9ae9aSarah Keir<p>Has anyone else seen cows neaty nibbling brambles?</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/72977?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:04:39 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:1ad4add6-6931-4298-a959-f4c99f942358Sarah Keir<p>The jelly is straining while I work today and hopefully Sainbury&#39;s have delivered the sugar too!</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/72976?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:00:54 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:98fd5fa2-891a-4d77-8c8d-679a9114da20Gillian Mostyn<p>haha - I am currenty in my kitchen waiting for my blackberry and apple jam to reach setting point..... also look like I&#39;vebeen savaged this morning!</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>