I was given some goose eggs this spring to try and hatch and ended up with two gosling's, well-said gosling's are now BIG geese. They were from eggs laid and hatched at the very end of the laying season '08, so not very old yet but already huge-fully feathered. Not mean at all but can get loud...
I am posting for a friend. She needs to find someone to take on the responsibility of her 4 month hairless chinese crested. She paid $500 at 10wks old and now would like $250 obo.
She did not anticipate how difficult potty training a little dog can be. I'd take him, he's very loving, but we...
Can anyone here help me with a cat rescue? Late last night someone tossed a full grown cat out of a moving car into our yard. I am not a cat person, but still am appalled someone would do this.
I do not want to keep the cat, and the shelters are already over-run.
The cat is very friendly and not...
I wonder if I'm doing something wrong? I've tried to send members here emails using the email now link, and it pops up a form that looks like I am emailing persons-but I never hear back, never get any mail and do not even know where to find my inbox. HELP!
Or maybe everyone is just ignoring...
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON - About 80,000 chickens in Indiana that were fed contaminated pet food scraps can be released for processing because testing showed meat from the birds is safe to eat, the Agriculture Department said Friday.
The chickens, bred to lay eggs hatched for chicks...
I had 2 birds given to me last night-people were in a pinch and need to re-home them.
Both look pure to me
1 white leghorn rooster
1 black australorp unsure of sex-keep going back and forth trying to decide.
their young the leghorn has been trying to crow, and he is beautiful, in a leghorn kind...
We have an ancient rottweiler. He is 12 yrs old, and in rotties thats pretty old. Another thing with rotties is-they are strong headed. I've had more than one.
Now Jake has slowed way down in the last couple yrs. Stays home, lays around the yard. Never botherd the chickens or anyone else. Unless...
The Purdue Research Foundation announced today that it licensed a new technology to San Diego-based PaxVax Inc. that could be mass-produced into a bird flu vaccine.
The vaccine technology transports an extra gene related to the influenza virus. The extra gene produces a protein in the host's...
Man arrested after yearlong investigation into cockfighting
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MERRILLVILLE, Ind. - A yearlong investigation into cockfighting in northwestern Indiana led to the arrest of a man who videotaped fights between roosters and framed photos of bloody birds after a fight, police...
Cleaning Poem
I asked the Lord to tell me
Why my house is such a mess.
He asked if I'd been 'computering',
And I had to answer "yes."
He told me to get off my fanny
And tidy up the house.
And so I started cleaning up...
The smudges off my mouse.
I wiped and shined the topside.
That really...