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CntryBoy777 said:
Gabbie's room is ready for her to come home to tomorrow....View attachment 1204309 ...the front barrier is the top lid to the duck brooder. She'll have the whole room once she is house broken.....:)
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I'm looking forward to puppy pictures too! So excited for you!

We are renovating the quail's cage that they share with a few bantam hens as we've had rats eating them through the wire. So there's a solid bottom going on the cage and with all our dry weather which doesn't look like it's going to let up any time soon they'll be fine. The rats ate our favourite boy who was a beautiful tuxedo with lots of white on him. I'm tempted to keep my girls in the raised cages as I've never had a problem in those. Ruddy rats!!! :mad: The big problem is they are introduced and nothing eats them, except perhaps the odd backyard cat, but with easier targets I doubt they'd bother.

DH brought home a little fledgling bird that his boss had found in the car park. It doesn't beg for food and it seems to be pooping so I'm thinking it may be just at the age where it's been abandoned. He said it was really windy at his work yesterday too so it's possibly started flying and got blown way off course. He told me it was a song thrush (do you guys have them over there?) but when he got home with it and I opened the box it was far too tiny to be a thrush. I think it's a goldfinch fledgling. It's unhurt and seems healthy so I'm thinking if it keeps pooping with what I'm providing it with I can let it go. At least it's more wild round here than at hubby's work!
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And I found one of my society finch chicks dead in the aviary. So I've brought the other inside just in case. It's eating well, encouraged by the Java finches who are just at the super cute want to get in your hand and cuddle stage and yell their heads off for food while they're at it (they are loud). It's cute to hear the society's soft, little "Tee tee tee" begging noise in comparison to the ear piercing Java yelling.

I think that's all my bird drama!

Hope your Friday is still quiet @Teila.
 
Still have some work to do on the cage. I have built a lot of them so not a problem. I make them 8 or ten feet long, 2 or 3 feet wide and 2 feet high. Legs 2-3 feet long. Metal roof, plywood back. Dividers so there are three separate homes for bunnies. Ends are wire, front is wire so cool in summer. In winter i put plywood on hinges to cover the ends. The front plywood i just screw on. Doors still open. I am making a glass cage for the water bottles to see if the sun will keep them thawed. But i also give them heavy plastic drinking bowls.
I started using a circular saw when i was 12, making bird houses.
 
CntryBoy777 said:
@JaeG just saw that a 6.2 earthquake hit down your way in the Kermadec Islands. Don't know how close that is to ya, but hope there's no damage.
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That hasn't even made it onto our news (not that I can find anyway)! The Kermadecs aren't that far from us but there's been no tsunami warning come through. New Zealand has been hit by a few quakes in the last few years as much of the south island sits on a major fault line. We're up in Auckland so we're more likely to have a volcano erupt on us than have an earthquake. Auckland is all volcanic cones - just wish that meant we also had nice volcanic soil, but no - horrid, hard clay where we are! Thanks for thinking of me! :hugs
 
CntryBoy777 said:
It is actually a walk-in closet, but all I wear is T-shirts and blue jeans, so nothing is in there except some storage shelves....so, now it will be Gabbie's room. It is in the master bedroom and will be a good location for her....:)
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Oh that's awesome! I am sure she will love being in the same room as you guys and I'm sure you probably will too! And it sure beats a crate!
 
My wife, Joyce, has difficulty breathing lying in a bed, so she sleeps in a recliner and we like different temps too....so I sleep in the bedroom where I can crack open a window if needed. When Gabbie gets house broke I won't say she won't sleep on the bed some, but she will always have her room to go to if she wishes, or if there is any need to put her up away from visitors. I'm gonna work on training her, but we don't have many visitors very often, so our animals are wary of strangers.....being naturally protective, a german shepherd will guard what is considered theirs and with modern day liability what it is, I don't need any problems, but strangers best beware....and to her family will be strangers too, until she is around them for a bit.
 
My Shepherd Mini sounds and looks big and bad when strangers come but if we accept them, then so does she. She will also stop chasing wildlife when we call her off, which pleases me. We got her when she was a bit over a year old. She fit right in and we do not need to fence or tie her, she knows where our property is. Great dog.
 

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