Aww Pebbles! :love
I have mentioned before that the difference in Australorps seems to rest in the big hatcheries. I've seen breeder pics from the US that look like your Australian birds. There is an out of state breeder I've book-marked that ships eggs from his BBS show stock.
Bantam...
I know, right?! For those not familiar, this is an Ohiki rooster. They are an old Japanese bantam breed with shared blood with the Japanese (Chabo) bantams and Onagadori long tails.
Can't have roosters if I want to remain legit. My neighbors on one side are deaf, though. ;)
I am looking...
It is just humans being a social primate and banging on their chests to show others how magnificent they are. It is hard wired into the species, though being "sapiens" you'd think we'd grow to understand ourselves a bit more.
I grew up in a conservationist and environmental family. I remember...
Oh, Shad, if you had set up that table at our Santa Monica farmer's market, all the trendy hipsters would have had you sold out before the end of the day.
:lau Okay, Shad, I am your living proof! I've got everything ready for them and I can't find chickens! I've been to three fairs to try to find local breeders and it was a bust. Craig's List was just a bunch of people reselling started pullets that they raised from hatchery chicks, same...
To be fair, that horrible video was showing either a hatchery for commercial egg layers or commercial meat birds. That level of mechanization would not be found at McMurray, Hoover, etc, that hatches many breeds to be delivered to feed stores. Still, the multi-breed hatcheries are bad enough...
This reminds me of this TED talk from 2013 about desertification. While research has refuted some of the ideas, much of it stands.
Allan Savory's TED Talk
Speaking as a biologist, so much of our world's problems are simply that our population has grown far beyond the carrying capacity of the...
I used to keep a field journal when I was a college student, studying botany and zoological illustration. I got to go on all kinds of awesome university-funded field research assignments as the illustrator. But now it is my job and I don't have time for fun journals. :rolleyes:
I don't have...
Even those turn into good sized plants when fruiting size. As they mature, you could have the pot on wheels so it can go outside in the summer. I don't think you'd get much fruit with a fully indoor plant. I have family in a colder climate and they do that with their dwarf citrus.