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As a few people have said, he is a red sabino. Likely with gaited horse ancestry.

No, that is not true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_bee_life_cycle

It's a very over simplified approach to keeping bees unfortunately & has lured goodness-knows how many people into it. There are two huge draw backs to this kind of set up & one positive. First of all, one needs to understand the life cycle of the bee. There is a queen bee & she and some...

How big is she? Almost looks like a brown leghorn though she could be a game.

We'd have to breed them on a large scale basis but I'm not convinced that this is just a protein problem. I'm actually suspecting a vitamin D overdose. Anyone ever had rheas showing symptoms like this from too much D?

We have a billion baby rheas hatching at the moment & don't live in a country where ratite food is available. Many chicks lose strength in their knees & can't get up although their legs are straight. Also some have one or two legs turning out from the knee as they grow & then they splat. Any...

I went back to SA for a visit last September & I was happy to be gone by the end. It just gets worse & worse. Still the most beautiful place ever though. Such a pity it's impossible to live safely there. I'm off to Australia in March & we'll see how it goes there. Hot wire/electric fencing is...

Gimpy seemed to be a hen . She was such a trooper

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Hi guys. Sorry I didn't update for so long. I was really upset. I went out for a bit, a few weeks ago & must have left a window ajar. Anyway, one of the nasty feral cats in the area came in & made lunch of the only 2 birds not in a cage-Gimpy & his quail friend who were in the aquarium :'-(( I...

Mine lives in an aquarium in the livingroom with a heat lamp. No different to my parrots. She scratches & dust bathes & lives very happily. I haven't updated the Gimpy thread because a feral cat got her & I'm very upset about it.

I guess I just don't get why my dog has an 8 month quarantine for rabies but the birds can't come at all. Surely they can test for all these bird diseases. We don't even have many bird diseases over here & there already are Galahs & cockatiels so I won't be messing up the ecosystem or anything...

I like snakes & the bush. I grew up in Africa. We are stuck in the city for a few years because my partner is a computer geek but one day, we'll go farm somewhere & he can do his stuff online.

Me actually :-) I'll be coming from Israel to Melbourne in March & doing some traveling in the next few months. If there's anywhere I'd like to live, it's Oz & my boyfriend is about to get sponsored for citizenship after 6 years there, so maybe things will work out for us :-)) It's such a pity...

Things aren't going well with Gimpy unfortunately. Her good leg started to bow forward as she grew & I spent this week debating whether I should put her down or not but she doesn't seem to be in pain, gets around & who am I to decide whether a life is worth living, so I chicken out & hope that...

I'm pretty sure I do have a trio as there is a noticeable difference between Ralph & the hens & he's a rosecomb so it shouldn't even be quite so obvious. Gimpy's comb is black like all her body & exactly the same size as Imogenes'. Gimpy is scared of me cause I have to inject her every day but I...

Here's the little guy last night (it's just poop on the bandage) And the velociraptors Imogene & Ralph: I have very much satisfied myself about the "experts" being wrong. This little guy is showing all the signs of chicken contentment that there are. He preens, stretches both legs...

I guess the age & situation probably makes a difference as once a behavior is established, it becomes habit instead of hormone related. Take established marking/humping in cats & dogs for instance. Also, other males crowing in the vicinity often set roosters off & we don't have any It's worth a...

Frizzle genes weren't used. It was a spontaneous mutation that was then bred to the others, genotyped & isolated. The other black chick is a male & is making strangled crowing noises. He will be neutered under anesthetic this week or next as a crowing house chicken will be too much for an...

Thanks. I guess they aren't popular because they need consistantly hot climates & indoor accommodation. The winters even here are far too cold for them & I have them under heat lamps 24/7. Summer is another story though :-)