Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[notabitail]

Yea I saw your post on them, how did you start that?

Bag of mealworms, fish tank, wheat bran, and carrots. You will also need a cardboard egg carton. Mix them togheter in the tank, feed them more carrots when they devour them, and let them go through a couple breeding cycles. They will turn into a pupa, then a beetle. They will then mate and can lay up to 500 mealworm eggs per female beetle. It takes them a few weeks to go through one cycle. I'll see about making an article about them when I'm not sick.

 

[featherhead007]

They look like they are thriving

Thriving? They are fat! They eat like pigs . And they think they’re “hooman”.

 

[Ponypoor]

Bag of mealworms, fish tank, wheat bran, and carrots. You will also need a cardboard egg carton. Mix them togheter in the tank, feed them more carrots when they devour them, and let them go through a couple breeding cycles. They will turn into a pupa, then a beetle. They will then mate and can lay up to 500 mealworm eggs per female beetle. It takes them a few weeks to go through one cycle. I'll see about making an article about them when I'm not sick.

I will look up the beetle and see what they look like

 

[notabitail]

I will look up the beetle and see what they look like

It's called a darkling beetle.

 

[Ponypoor]

Thriving? They are fat! They eat like pigs . And they think they’re “hooman”.

They have you well trained Hooman

 

[notabitail]

I will look up the beetle and see what they look like

 

[RoyalChick]

RC did you see the video of my tweens and their size? When I was handling them? Yours look about the same size. Mine are doing great running free and don’t use their brooder plate unless I put them in their bin, in fact I left the plate on their bin today it was so lovely. They were laying in the sun like pros, sunbathing!

Only problem - that Martina is beast to catch! The other two are really easy to catch up, but she is a brat. Once I get hold of her she is fine, but getting her is the trick! Do you have a plan for your five when you turn them loose on how to catch them????

I think I will only ever be able to catch Piglet!

 

[RoyalChick]

An epic chick fail got me laughing this morning. No harm done (apart from to her dignity of course).

 

[rural mouse]

I think I will only ever be able to catch Piglet!

Give them time. Lark and Indigo have only just stopped bolting from me and they're a year old. It's taken this long for them to be willing to hang out within 5 feet of me.

 

[Ponypoor]

Bag of mealworms, fish tank, wheat bran, and carrots. You will also need a cardboard egg carton. Mix them togheter in the tank, feed them more carrots when they devour them, and let them go through a couple breeding cycles. They will turn into a pupa, then a beetle. They will then mate and can lay up to 500 mealworm eggs per female beetle. It takes them a few weeks to go through one cycle. I'll see about making an article about them when I'm not sick.

I will have to see about setting this I when I have time (ie: retired hahaha).