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Electric netting can't touch the ground because that, well, grounds it, and touching grass or weeds both does that and risks fires. I think you'd have to put it up high enough that a clever predator could duck under it.

Just the apron won't do you any good. The predator will just tunnel underneath until it gets into the run. The reason an apron works when facing outward is because the predator tries to dig down where it meets the wall of the run, and finds that it can't. It doesn't know to go back and find the...

Well, you won't be doing it right now. You can't vaccinate while they're sick. Vaccinations should only be given to healthy creatures, otherwise the overwhelmed immune system won't be likely to remember it. Remember, a vaccination does not in and of itself prevent disease. It shows the immune...

Males will fight each other unless in a very large pen, period. You'll want to find out whether you have buttons or coturnix, because care is different for both. Buttons do best inside, coturnix outside. Coturnix get way larger, also, and should generally be kept with more than one female per...

If you have button quail or bobwhites, MFF may work, but quite probably won't. MMF won't, the males will fight and will overmate the female. MF is best. FFF may work. If they're coturnix, MFF, MF, and FFF should all be fine. MMF, again, no.

Oh, that's perfection.

The feral Muscovies around my local park don't seem to go in the water much, either. For your ducks in particular, let them do whatever. They'll go outside when they want to. Unless you see something scaring them (hawk, dog, etc), probably there's nothing keeping them from going out, except...

Ah, I see you have bears.

Sounds bad. Pic would be ideal. Is it possible she has a hair wrapped around the base of her tongue and cutting off circulation?

Yeah, that's not an ayam. It has pigment other than black in its feet and beak. What you have there is just a chick with some black skin.

If you're unhappy with how much space you get to work in, and you're hiding something from her because you think or know it's going to make her unhappy, I'm not so sure things are working out well for you. Two reasonable adults should be able to come to a solution that would leave both parties...

Well, why does she mind in the first place? Maybe you can change whatever he minds, and then both of you will be happy. Wives are generally human like everybody else, and can therefore often be reasoned with, instead of hiding things and coming up with excuses to try to get around them.

Social animals (like parrots, which budgies are) shouldn't be left alone all day.

They can make good pets, but you're going to need plenty of space. They don't actually do well being 'free range' in a house like a lot of people keep them, the humidity is wrong and they need more UVB than they'll get doing that. They need a proper enclosure, and letting them loose in the house...

Your experience sounds great, but I don't think it's a good idea to encourage people who are 12 to adopt large parrots. Just like you wouldn't encourage them to adopt a toddler. That's a massive amount of responsibility and opportunity to screw up, that you're putting on someone who doesn't know...