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

[Tillicans]

How funny they really have a great personality. I swear they answer me back when I chat to them, very cut. Yes blue tongues are nasty especially when they steal the eggs.

 

[Fizzybelle]

Oh I didn't know they were egg thieves, I'll keep that in mind. I only get the occasional one.

 

[Anniebee]

2 to 4 weeks is best to keep them seperate. I think you could be right about the family of snakes. I'll have to post a pic of mila our snake one day she's huge.

You have answered a question I was going to ask. .... Is it possible that male snakes are coming around for some mating action with your pet carpet snake ?.

I have absolutely NO idea when snakes mate to produce their young, but I figure it certainly wouldn't be in winter.

Can snakes 'smell' like other creatures can - when producing seasons come around ?

Thank you for your replies to my posts too ----

Cheers -

 

[Tillicans]

We have bush rats coming from adjacent national park, I'm watching from our balcony kookaburra hunting for mice, what a clever Kookaburra. At least I don't have a snake just a silly tree snake, harmless.

 

[Anniebee]

I usually cringe for the blue tongues if I see one, hoping the girls don't spot him. Don't know if they'd peck one, but wouldn't put it past them. Cane toads though, I cringe at. Now it's raining the disgusting things'll be out tonight or tomorrow.

Little Beatrice my d'uccle has had me frustrated today. Found her under the coop panting. She'd laid her egg, so thought she was hot and brought her inside in the aircon. She was eating and otherwise fine, goes over to the glass door indicating that she was wanting to go out, so I let her out and she ran back to the chook fence by herself. Runs over to the coop when I open the gate, straight up the ramp and sits down on the eggs theres. Sigh, ok so she's clucky. I come back about 15 mins later to find her playing under the palms. What? Then she starts with that screaming of hers (it's getting LOUDER these days), and follows me around until I pick her up and carry her around with me for a while, like a handbag. Was totally fine after that.

She's seriously a toddler in a chickens body. Sigh, gotta love her though.

Had a giggle - re chookie-happy after being carried around like handbag. !! ....

My at-times-waddly Mandy absolutely loves a cuddle, and I do it as often as possible - and when I think is necessary. I don't like to disturb her when she is resting. However, after the cuddle - she struts around like a normal chookie would, and then sits down again. She certainly is a "Mum's girl" ... and has now learned to come when I call her name. True. Molly knows her name - when free ranging - only because she thinks there might be some tucker with the call - and Mindy doesn't know her name at all. ... Feisty little pet she is ....

But by heck, they all know the word "BED" .... !! and obey so well. Very easy to get them into the coops for the night.

Cheers -

 

[Anniebee]

Challenge ...

Can we all get one of our darling chookies to do this : - - - -

Hope you enjoy this short video ... I did.

Cheers .....

 

[Tillicans]

Hope she got her treat after that performance, very clever chookie

 

[Teila]

Good morning folks

Anniebee your gals sure do know how to keep you on your toes!

That video is so cute! Yep, I think Dusty would do that for a meal worm

sweetbeak love the pic of your Silkies!

LuckysMum I hope your Araucana is OK now and that is was just the dust.

I have been AWOL for a couple of days; my knee has been giving me all kinds of grief. Yesterday a walk from having it elevated on the bed to sitting outside to watch the girls while hubby went to get a hair cut had me in tears by the time I got to the front door.

Anyways, long story short .. pain had become pain, swelling and heat so had to call in a doctor. He suspected septic joint and off to hospital I had to go .. I was fighting and kicking that one! Well, just fighting, no kicking

All the way there I was telling hubby I was not staying! Luckily septic joint was ruled out and I came home with a diagnosis of prepatellar bursitis [house-maid knee] and my new fashion accessory, a walking stick which I took great delight in waving at my son when I got home LOL

Still in all kinds of pain but at least now I know what it is and how to manage it. X-Ray showed that my knee had "had a hard life / good workout".

I am really not having a good run at the moment

Any tips/experience managing joint pain .. fish oil? Glucosamine with sulphate? etc

 

[satay]

You have answered a question I was going to ask.   .... Is it possible that male snakes are coming around for some mating action with your pet carpet snake ?.  

I have absolutely NO idea when snakes mate to produce their young, but I figure it certainly wouldn't be in winter.  

Can snakes 'smell' like other creatures can - when producing seasons come around ? 

Thank you for your replies to my posts too ---- 

Cheers - 

They may be for other snakes but millia is in the lounge room. Never had one even close to the house. They are after a feed and a drink unfortunately. Breeding season is normally around December with babies being born in February. The smaller ones hubby has relocated my guess would be they are about 18 months old and the bigger one i was thinking about 3 . Snakes do have a wicked sense of smell as they have bad eyesight and are basically deaf. They use vibrations and smell to find food and water. They normally know whether they can eat something or not..So it was odd when it came to bidda that it killed her but couldn't eat her. MIlla is super hungry at the moment and will eat sometimes 3 times in one week for weeks at an end , She can go for stints of up to 8 months without eating though too. Just after a shed like she did this week she will eat and eat and eat,

 

[satay]

Not the best picture of her but this is millia. Makes our spotted python look like a worm compared to her.
She's about 11ft long now. I think she is around 7 or 8 years old now.