LGBTQ+ Poultry Keepers

[KikiDeAnime]

Hey I hope everyone is having a good start to their weekend!
I know I am! I'm really excited for my 28th birthday tomorrow!
We'll be going out to Red Robin tomorrow night for my free birthday burger. I'll be sure to post photos!

 

[TwoCrows]

Hey I hope everyone is having a good start to their weekend!
I know I am! I'm really excited for my 28th birthday tomorrow!
We'll be going out to Red Robin tomorrow night for my free birthday burger. I'll be sure to post photos!

Happy Birthday tomorrow!! Enjoy your day!!

 

[OrpingtonManiac]

Hey I hope everyone is having a good start to their weekend!
I know I am! I'm really excited for my 28th birthday tomorrow!
We'll be going out to Red Robin tomorrow night for my free birthday burger. I'll be sure to post photos!

Happy birthday, for tomorrow!!

 

[fluffycrow]

Early Happy Birthday!

Hey I hope everyone is having a good start to their weekend!
I know I am! I'm really excited for my 28th birthday tomorrow!
We'll be going out to Red Robin tomorrow night for my free birthday burger. I'll be sure to post photos!

 

[Shabby Chic-Hens]

Hey I hope everyone is having a good start to their weekend!
I know I am! I'm really excited for my 28th birthday tomorrow!
We'll be going out to Red Robin tomorrow night for my free birthday burger. I'll be sure to post photos!

Early congratulations!

 

[Sally PB]

Happy un-Birthday now, and Birthday tomorrow!

I want to hear about the Red Robin burger, as I've never been there and keep hearing abut how good they are.

 

[BelovedBirds]

Hey I hope everyone is having a good start to their weekend!
I know I am! I'm really excited for my 28th birthday tomorrow!
We'll be going out to Red Robin tomorrow night for my free birthday burger. I'll be sure to post photos!

Happy birthday!

 

[BelovedBirds]

TLDR: I simply have to show off this beautiful snail
This is the first giant african land snail I've had since I lost my beautiful fulica rodatzi, Kupa.

The ramble I actually want to share: This is Bug, she is an achatina fulica, and is a wild caught from Madagascar... I was skeptical about buying her, for fear of her being stressed in captive conditions, but she has settled very well. She is the happiest most active snail I think I've ever owned! Very friendly too. For anyone who doesn't know about giant african land snails, fulica are the most common variety, and they've been inbred so irresponsibly that all the ones sold these days have awful genetics. Lifespans of 2 or 3 years when they should be living 7 years on average. And growing to about 8cm in shell length when they should be making about 13 or 14cm at minimum.... So it is vital to take wild snails and introduce their strong genetics to the mix. It is my hope that in a while when I am able, I will be able to breed her and hatch a clutch of eggs. If I do the necessary culling process of runts, I should have healthier captive bred fulica to put out there for other snail keepers. But this is all a maybe, and dependant on lots of things.

 

[TOMTE]

TLDR: I simply have to show off this beautiful snail
This is the first giant african land snail I've had since I lost my beautiful fulica rodatzi, Kupa.

The ramble I actually want to share: This is Bug, she is an achatina fulica, and is a wild caught from Madagascar... I was skeptical about buying her, for fear of her being stressed in captive conditions, but she has settled very well. She is the happiest most active snail I think I've ever owned! Very friendly too. For anyone who doesn't know about giant african land snails, fulica are the most common variety, and they've been inbred so irresponsibly that all the ones sold these days have awful genetics. Lifespans of 2 or 3 years when they should be living 7 years on average. And growing to about 8cm in shell length when they should be making about 13 or 14cm at minimum.... So it is vital to take wild snails and introduce their strong genetics to the mix. It is my hope that in a while when I am able, I will be able to breed her and hatch a clutch of eggs. If I do the necessary culling process of runts, I should have healthier captive bred fulica to put out there for other snail keepers. But this is all a maybe, and dependant on lots of things.

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OH, I want one so bad! But they're illegal here (for good reason). Please share lots of pics so I can enjoy them thru you

It's awesome that you're working to improve their genetics! Let us know how it goes!!

Not technically bugs but if you wanna post updates in my entomology thread you're totally welcome to

 

[BelovedBirds]

And this was my late Fulica, Kupa. He only lived to 4 but still exceeded most poorly bred snails, reaching 11cm in length too! So he was one of the lucky ones.