Australia - Six states..and that funny little island.

[IamSamSam]

Satay I love the photos and I'm jealous of your dragon fruit. Hope baby budgie is going well!

 

[Pinky Macgyver]

Wow, Grats you have all kinds of new exciting things at the moment

P.s. I'm heading to bellsouth today to pick up that incubator you suggested biting the bullet and getting the nearly four hundred dollar one. Even if I don't incubate much, I want the ones I do to have the best chance

 

[megacakes]

OMG he is beautiful and has such nice eyes! You can't get rid of him!
I remember when we were young one of the guys we knew stuck egg cartons to the walls of his unit - they were entirely covered with them (wouldn't you have love to be his landlord?!) Anyway, he did that because apparently they absorb sound - could maybe work?
And yes, the clumping bamboo is very different to the usual, mad, out of control bamboo
Have you tried sitting down and talking to your neighbours to discuss him?

Re: the egg cartons, don't bother, it's not great. My husband is a drummer and his mum tried it when he was a kid. He says the best sound proofing is air, so you need to effectively build a room within a room, with an air gap between the two.
Bamboo might be a longer term solution, but it's not going to help you much in the next couple of months, and I must say that even non invasive bamboo is invasive to some degree. You don't want to be also fighting with the neighbours down the track because the bloody stuff is pushing the fence over (which is what's happening at my place at the moment)
Blondiechick's suggestion of sitting down and talking to the neighbours might the the best move. Take over a list of alternatives to try, and try them one by one, consulting with the neighbours step by step. That way you are building a relationship with them and they might get used to you and the rooster as well!
Unless, of course, they are totally mean and unreasonable. Then all bets are off!

 

[sydney quailman]

nice dragon fruit well done satay, btw i check the 120 quail eggs that didnt hatch, 90% of them were part developed, id say about 7 days olds roughly.

 

[satay]

Satay I love the photos and I'm jealous of your dragon fruit. Hope baby budgie is going well!

Thanks Sam, Budgie is doing great.(still only one so far) Dragon fruit aren't hard to grow. Why it has taken me so long is the darn possums kept eating the plant off. It grows from a cutting.

 

[satay]

Wow, Grats you have all kinds of new exciting things at the moment

P.s. I'm heading to bellsouth today to pick up that incubator you suggested biting the bullet and getting the nearly four hundred dollar one. Even if I don't incubate much, I want the ones I do to have the best chance

Yah, Pinky another coverted lol. You are going to love it Yeah I have quite a few fruit trees that are fruiting for the first time this year. My white sapote (tastes like custard), My ice cream bean tree has fruit but they are not ready to try yet, My 2 lemons are fruiting for the first time and my finger lime is too. We have probably over 50 fruit trees and vines all up not including the bananas.

 

[satay]

nice dragon fruit well done satay, btw i check the 120 quail eggs that didnt hatch, 90% of them were part developed, id say about 7 days olds roughly.

Bugger Sam. How are the new ones going in the rcom? My babies from your eggs are growing fast now. Will need to move them from the outside baby pen to the grower pen soon.

 

[Colourful]

nice dragon fruit well done satay, btw i check the 120 quail eggs that didnt hatch, 90% of them were part developed, id say about 7 days olds roughly.

****. My condolences Sam.

 

[Blondiechic]

With the budgie eggs - a friend has discovered their budgie is sitting on two eggs, they asked me what to do with them (like I would know!). I suggested google but in the meantime I would ask here - do they just leave them to be natural? And when they are born do they have to get special food?
Very sorry about the quail eggs, that is so sad.
Nothing breeds at my house...safer for my emotions!

 

[satay]

Yes you just leave it to the mum. Mine is on normal food the mum and dad are feeding it.