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the_peanut_coop said:
Welcome to Byc ! Have a great day! also your aruacaunas are so cute!
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Thank you! I wasn’t out looking to specifically to get Araucana (you were so close with the spelling!), but there were only 2 of them left when I buying other chicks and couldn’t just leave them there! Needless to say I’ve totally fallen in love with the breed!
 
ImAussie said:
Thank you! I wasn’t out looking to specifically to get Araucana (you were so close with the spelling!), but there were only 2 of them left when I buying other chicks and couldn’t just leave them there! Needless to say I’ve totally fallen in love with the breed!
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It would be purely impossible not to just grab them real quick! they're sooooo cute!
 
Snakes I've dealt with -- nothing venomous and I understand Australia has plenty of those -- just 5-foot bull snakes and small garter snakes, but there's nothing like a goanna here.

Coyotes sing in the fields around my place with too much regularity, but rarely get close.

And snow -- sometimes piled as high as my livestock fences -- is just a part of Iowa life. We had actual temps of 20-something degrees below zero (sorry, can't do math conversions, just know it's bone-chilling). However, you're making my summer temps (rarely above 90 anything) look good!
 
Callender Girl said:
Snakes I've dealt with -- nothing venomous and I understand Australia has plenty of those -- just 5-foot bull snakes and small garter snakes, but there's nothing like a goanna here.

Coyotes sing in the fields around my place with too much regularity, but rarely get close.

And snow -- sometimes piled as high as my livestock fences -- is just a part of Iowa life. We had actual temps of 20-something degrees below zero (sorry, can't do math conversions, just know it's bone-chilling). However, you're making my summer temps (rarely above 90 anything) look good!
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Honestly the snakes don't bother me too much, provided they keep out of the chicken coop and out of the house. We've had a few Eastern Browns here recently, and several of another venomous one, but many of them are after frogs more than anything else. It's the non-venomous ones (Pythons) that are more concerning to our chickens and cats.

We don't get coyotes here, but we do have foxes and dingos and wild dogs on our property.

We don't have racoons or bobcats or bears.

We have a lot of kangaroos and wallabies and hares and deer here, none of which are a threat, though they are considered a pest because of their numbers and eating all the grass people need for their livestock or their crops (we don't have any livestock/grass eating animals or crops on our property so I'm more than happy having them!)

We also have the rat and mouse plague problems.

The only one I can't handle is the spiders! I'm a total arachnophobic, but because we live in the country ("out bush") we get tons of huge huntsman and also wolf spiders. The redback's (like your black widow) we also have heaps of. Oh what fun.


I couldn't imagine things getting that cold! Heat has always just been a way of life here haha.
 

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