Sherpa is so warm and cozy and I love it for those reasons. But it attracts pine shavings from all the 4 corners of the earth after a while and it is so unfortunate. Definitely try to salvage them if you can.
They make little shavers for sweaters that may work for tiny pieces. But you will probably have to hand pick most of it out. Been there, done that, hate sherpa for that very reason.
100% of the Red Necker eggs I set hatched. And there are still white leghorn eggs hatching so I can’t get an accurate count on them yet.
Here are pics before I added more Leghorns.
And here are some closeups of the two cutest ones:
So I forgot to account for my Legbars carrying recessive white. So the Red Necker rooster must have inherited a copy of recessive white from the Legbar hen that was his mom. And the hens he is in with are also split Recessive white. So therefore….
… we have Recessive White Red Neckers! 🥰...
I used to breed cockatiels and kept them in a large outdoor aviary. It was fun. Until snakes ate most of them (true story). Keeping a hand-tamed budgie or cockatiel in a cage wouldnt be bad as long as it gets plenty of out of cage time and enrichment.