Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Omnivore I'd have thought.

They're extremely dangerous. Never approach a cassowary.

Have heard this! They look so quiet at the zoo but am told they are quite dangerous!

 

[MaryJanet]

Have heard this! They look so quiet at the zoo but am told they are quite dangerous!

I was just reading that out of 150 attacks by cassowaries on humans only one death has occurred. Still, that's enough for me to never want to be anywhere near one.

 

[RoyalChick]

Does anyone have any experience with these little fu**ers?
According to the insect identification app they are the larval form of the Asian multicolored lady beetle. Which looks like a ladybug/ladybird but is bigger.
They are apparently everywhere around the world now, and the chickens will not eat them!
What is that all about? These things are making my life in the chicken garden a bit miserable. They bite and make me itch and there are a lot of them!
Chickens just not interested!

 

[RoyalChick]

Lulu stopped by to say hello. I am a bit freaked out by how red her comb, face, and wattles are getting. She is only 14 weeks old!

 

[bgmathteach]

Does anyone have any experience with these little fu**ers?
According to the insect identification app they are the larval form of the Asian multicolored lady beetle. Which looks like a ladybug/ladybird but is bigger.
They are apparently everywhere around the world now, and the chickens will not eat them!
What is that all about? These things are making my life in the chicken garden a bit miserable. They bite and make me itch and there are a lot of them!
Chickens just not interested!

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Looks like you need to get out your vacuum cleaner,
or get the chickens to find and eat the eggs?

 

[bgmathteach]

Lulu stopped by to say hello.

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What's the matter, Mum....am I growing up too quick for ya??

I"m a big girl now, ya know!



No worries, @RoyalChick they are red, but they aren't RED. Remember, some pullets will start laying around 18 weeks of age....that isn't that far off (some breeds as early at 16 weeks!!!!)

 

[LozzyR]

Yep the cassowary but I think they are also herbivores.... @LozzyR is that correct?

I had to look it up but they are classed as frugivores; their preference is fallen fruit. They will, however, eat small vertebrates, invertebrates and carrion.

Frugivore tax

 

[RoyalChick]

What's the matter, Mum....am I growing up too quick for ya??

I"m a big girl now, ya know!



No worries, @RoyalChick they are red, but they aren't RED. Remember, some pullets will start laying around 18 weeks of age....that isn't that far off (some breeds as early at 16 weeks!!!!)

But she's still my baby! She isn't grown up at all. Barely a teenager and definitely not competent in life on earth (my baby alien!).

 

[Ponypoor]

I was just reading that out of 150 attacks by cassowaries on humans only one death has occurred. Still, that's enough for me to never want to be anywhere near one.

Wow 150 people

Yup will stay away from them!

 

[Ponypoor]

I had to look it up but they are classed as frugivores; their preference is fallen fruit. They will, however, eat small vertebrates, invertebrates and carrion.

Frugivore tax
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What an awesome bird