Well I am not actually new here .. but I have not logged on in so long it feels like I am new to the board again lol
at one time I had a nice little flock of 25 chickens ... 3 ducks .. and a dozen button quail .. and a few coturnix quail
right now I am chickenless but hope that will change...
My pair of hairless rats might be parents !!!!!!!!
I have noticed my female Victoria getting pretty fat lately ! this is thier first litter so I am pretty excitied to see what the babies are going to look like
I also added another rat girl to our family a pretty little furry hooded girl - she...
I work at a pet store and today someone brought in a tiny rabbit her cat caught
there are no bite marks on the bunny anywhere -- its eyes are still closed and looks like a Cottontail to me
I am not sure of the sex or age of the little bugger
I have started feeding him/her kitten formula and...
I work at a pet store and take care of 3 snakes and all the other little critters - I LOVE my job -- but some people make me wonder why they bother coming in the pet store in the first place
a guy came in a few weeks back wanting me to speacil order him a baby ball python female -- no problem...
I am not having a good time with my quail lately
Last night culled one with a broken back -- now I go to do morning chores and notice my favorite and only A & M roo has blood all over his face and breast area
so I take him to kitchen and give him a bath to clean him up and notice he has...
I have a cage that has 5 roos and a very aggressive hen - all are being processed for the freezer
DH noticed the other night that one of the roos was unable to walk but managed to scoot across if he flapped his wings and lifted himself up
I was not sure what his problem was so I seperated him...
I have 4 coturnix quail 3 females and 1 male in a 24x24 wire cage in my spare room they get plenty of everything - food water treats -
I have noticed one of the females has gotten very aggressive toward all the others and has pecked the eyes out of one of the females and she has been beating up...
I work at a pet store and we got our very first shipment of critters in ( store has only been open for about a month )
well I had asked for a certain breed of RAT to come in and the store owner was nice enough to get them on the list for me
we got a white female and a greyish male HAIRLESS RAT...
I work at a pet store and a guy came in a few days ago wanted to get rid of his parrot - so my boss bought him to have as a " shop bird " this bird is the coolest !! he is SUPER friendly and acts like a spoiled brat when he is not getting what he wants - he loves to walk around the shelves and...
I have been asked by breeder to give her a hand with hand feeding some Quaker Parrots - she is short on time with work and everything and she knows I have a Quaker and have experience with the breed plus loves the work I have been doing with the quail and the ringnecks
even though the quail and...
I have been asked by breeder to give her a hand with hand feeding some Quaker Parrots - she is short on time with work and everything and she knows I have a Quaker and have experience with the breed plus loves the work I have been doing with the quail and the ringnecks
even though the quail and...
I have 3 females and 1 male - all live inside - nothing has changed with the feed - cage - or the group
I have been getting a few weird eggs LOL
these are fairly young layers ( only been laying a few months )
here is the normal eggs I get
you can see they are all diffrent colors and...
Ok here is alittle background :
I have a female Quaker parrot named Pollie the Potty mouth
last year about this time Pollie made a nest on the bottom of her cage - I was very impressed about her make shift nest using bedding and food and she maintained the walls everyday doing little repairs...
A friend of mine called me yesterday to see if my boxer girl was still nursing her puppies - I told him no - not really they are 7 weeks old so she only lets them nurse once in awhile now
so he told me his weenie dog Madison had puppies 2 weeks ago - one puppy died shortly after birth and the...
I have 3 females and 1 male living inside the house - spoiled rotten LOL
i have been noticing on one of the hens her crop area is SUPER FULL and it is very very squishy like a water balloon it drags the bottom of the cage and now she is losing feathers on her chest
I am getting 3 eggs a day so...
total of 9 buttons and 5 coturnix
4 whites - 2 silvers - 2 have no clues - 1 black ??
here is the black ?? baby
have 6 more button eggs due to hatch today or tomorrow !!
all these buttons are from my own little flock plus I have 3-4 hens taking turns sitting on a clutch of 4 more eggs LOL
I have 7 coturnix eggs and 14 buttons in the bator - set to hatch today/tomorrow
I have been so busy with building a new button pen and dealing with puppies that I did not even notice the babies had hatched LOL
I did not hear them peeping because the bator is sitting on the counter next to a...
here are a few random pics of some of the furry crew here
Wally getting nice and cozy on the couch
DH watching Nascar ( sleeping lol ) no wonder Wally looked nice and comfortable
ever wonder happens when you lay on the floor with puppies around ???
ask DH
a story of puppy tug of...
the 10 baby Ringnecks are doing wonderful !! they are getting bigger and have alot more feathers now - still not to sure of thier age
these are wonderful birds -- they SUPER freaky spazzy when it comes to changeing the food/water but dont mind being held ( once you grab one lol )
I cleaned...
our little boxer puppies are now 6 weeks and growing FAST !!
they had thier first shot on Friday and did very well -- we have not wormed them yet.
They have not been outside to play in the grass and have not been around any other dogs other than thier on mom and once to see thier daddy and our...