My heavily moulting Janice definitely prefers grapes and mealworms. (They all do)
Indeed. Sometimes a microscope is even required.
The European pine marten definitely can climb in trees.
This app is very honoust in its reliability. If the photo is not clear or if it resembles another mushroom/plant is gives possible alternatives and a low percentage of reliability. And in general the more common species in England and in the Netherlands are the same.
I had a chicken, who on two occasions suddenly became paralyzed and I thought she was dying. Her legs gave out and she just couldn't walk. However, after 20 minutes she got up and continued on her way completely fine. The first time I didn't know why. The second time I just happened to see she and all my other hens rush across the yard and gobble up a similar looking mushroom to yours before I even saw it. Apparently she had some sensitivity to it where the others did not as they were fine. After that, I kept the free range yard clear of mushrooms and the paralysis never happened again.About two and a half hours this afternoon. I couldn't describe the afternoon as dry because everything is damp from the downpours yesterday and overnight. But, it didn't rain this afternoon and the sun shone.
Sylph so far isn't looking as distressed as her sister Mow did when she had her first hard moult last year; she was a pitiful sight. Early days. A few feathers in the coop, lots more in the coop extension.
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Glais is growing spurs. The nubs have opened and little white spur tips are showing.
We had over two hours out and about. This area is a new area for Glais. He's slowly getting to know his territory.
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Glais has started giving I've found food calls. So far Sylph and Mow haven't been impressed.He's going to need to find something really good if they're going to respond by checking what he's found out.
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What Glais did find was a mushroom and he ate some of it. If he's sick or dead tomorrow that will be why.
I don't know much about mushrooms and there are a few of these growing. Apparently there are two similar looking types, one is poisonous the other isn't. This isn't the type that Glais ate some of. By the time I got to what he did try it was unrecognizable for identification.
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They are still having some roosting disputes. Sylph likes the place Glais is in and went to roost early and settled there. Glais bullied her off. Nothing too aggressive I hasn't to add.
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Do you know, is that the same or different from volvariella gloiocephala (which = stubble rosegill, last entry of BDutch's 3)?
these are three different species. The last is described in Phillips' Mushrooms field guide as "edible but careful identification is needed to avoid confusion with deadly, white-spored Amanitas (pp. 140-152); the latter have rings but these may become detached." Phillips p.155. His guide has no entry for a rose-gilled grisette, btw, but grisettes are aka amanitas, which most foragers avoid, because the family includes a few highly toxic types and you really need to know your mushrooms to distinguish them.
100% score for what? That it is one or another of the 3 suggested? I could say it is right, or wrong, and be 100% accurate on that reckoning
Why deny them all something they want to eat because 1 of them is temporarily incapacitated by eating it? If humans did that there would be no alcohol industry (amongst other things).
I would never, ever, rely on an app to properly identify mushroom types. To do so, is, not just in my opinion but in the opinion of expert mushroom foragers, an invitation for a potentially life threatening disaster.
