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Cythereal posted:Have a wild chicken-adjacent showing that the lack of survival instincts runs in the family.
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Nov 20, 2021 03:03
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the new cage is indoor-outdoor and double storey. moose loves it. she can do her favourite thing, sitting motionless in the shade, for a few hours and then go do her other favourite thing, sitting motionless in the sun, for a few hours  and then go upstairs for a well-earned dust bath and a nap.
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Nov 21, 2021 05:47
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lol i just went back in my photos to see what date i got moose (may 2020) and found this photo of her as a baby magnificently lazy bird
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Nov 21, 2021 05:58
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my cat is norris posted:
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Nov 25, 2021 05:44
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kestrel needed to burn off some energy, so i took him for a walk and he sang me the song of his people
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Nov 25, 2021 06:27
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in an hour i will be picking up two (2) new quail hens, bringing my flock up to five girls and three boys, a nice stable number. spookygonk posted:Luckily this time of year sunrise is after 07:30 and sunset now before 4pm so the hens don't get much out time. We keep the in the run until 10am and then out for supervised kicking around the garden. Then from noon, they're lounging in the conservatory away from sky birds. Feel bad stopping feeding garden birds, but it's a necessity to keep our hens safe.  stay safe, orange queens
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Nov 26, 2021 07:43
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Enfys posted:Avian flu recently killed one of the rare white-tailed sea eagles in Ireland  here are the new those: sable and quoll  they are gorgeous, they just plob gently in my hands like a friday quailo and the other birds seem delighted by their company. apparently they're only ten weeks old, but they're massive and look full-grown to me so i don't know. the breeder had ducks, chickens and quail in the most amazing set-up, a huge fully meshed run with the three species in discreet sub-runs within where they don't make physical contact but still can see each other, with the option of letting them out to mingle in the exercise space. unfortunately all this effort and engineering had been for nothing, because the ducks had assumed full control of the space and would attack and effortlessly defeat both the chickens and the quail the moment they stepped out of their dedicated sub-runs. quail had been killed. i said i'd heard ducks are usually the victims of the poultry yard because of their soft peaceful bills, the breeder looked at me wide-eyed and said "oh no. not these ducks."
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Nov 27, 2021 01:24
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note to anybody concerned about avian flu, letting your different species of poultry mingle is exactly what you should not do. it was still a beautifully constructed run though. a temple of hen
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Nov 27, 2021 01:31
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freeedr posted:
quote:I had TWO chooks lay double today, in late November.
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Nov 28, 2021 23:23
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Nov 28, 2021 23:27
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so sorry about your birds csp, predators are awful and it's especially sad when all the others witness the act and are traumatisedChaseSP posted:It was a hen and the rooster we are replacing our older one with, a orange boy with wonderful poofy cheeks. the line will survive
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Dec 2, 2021 23:52
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divine birds  despite her clipped wings, a fool bumblebeed over the fence. she managed to get herself into a three-inch-wide gap between the neighbour's fence and their shed, which is entirely blocked off on both sides by ivy and shrubs. after ten minutes of swearing, i ended up having to fetch an emergency rooster to coax her out. it worked a treat, currawong immediately started crowing and quoll pobbled straight out to meet him of her own accord. yet again, i am left feeling like they are smarter than i am. 
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Dec 6, 2021 23:53
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tiny man is still with us! at that size, every day that he remains in the world is a miracle and a gift  rest in peace, little man. you were a dragon
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Dec 9, 2021 00:16
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birds really can just look at you like you're an idiot, no matter how ridiculously they behave
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Dec 9, 2021 22:56
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Enfys posted:one of my girls tried to flap into my arms as I walked into the run the other day, but she missed and crashed into the gate next to me  i love hearing about affectionate relationships between chickens and humans
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Dec 12, 2021 05:43
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Dec 16, 2021 10:59
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City of Glompton posted:first snow, chickens are not impressed
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Dec 17, 2021 00:49
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my cat is norris posted:Marzipan flew the coop today and is now one with the neighbor's thicket of extremely tangled and impassable wild grape vines and bushes.  it happens, they are guided by fate alone. there's a small chance he'll come back in a month or a year, fat and unharmed. pure chaos
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Dec 19, 2021 20:46
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margaret is fierce and beautiful. lil pep's dedication is inspiring. i love every single bird in this thread
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Dec 20, 2021 11:51
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City of Glompton posted:back in broody jail
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Dec 21, 2021 04:53
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norris i'm so sorry about your quail! that is terrible! it's good that you managed to catch one as she bumbled around in the wilderness and that you still have three, and the trio you have left are lovely, but you've tried so hard to give these little fools a good life and it's tragic that fate keeps getting in your way. they just don't understand that we want to keep them safe. they look at us like we're idiots and then go off and get themselves slain
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Jan 2, 2022 23:04
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my cat is norris posted:the quail life!!!! bless them, bless youi've just been admiring the orbs' morning routine. they have breakfast, and then they all plob down around the cage and gaze at each other serenely. it's enviable to me how they achieve these states of perfect calm when the world is so dangerous for them
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Jan 3, 2022 23:23
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nothing moves my heart like seeing a quail all splayed out in the sunshine, blissed out and having a wonderful time, as well-camouflaged as a melting soft-serve ice cream on carpark asphalt
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Jan 3, 2022 23:37
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Celestriad posted:Coturnix quail absolutely are as much adorableness and heartbreak as everyone says. So much heartbreak, in fact, that we decided to try another species of quail, a native one. We are in southeast USA, so we decided to raise bobwhite quails.  this is so exciting, thank you for posting! ever since i read that quail, robert (recommended in this very thread) i've been really wanting to hear more in-depth about the day-to-day life of bobwhites. there are very few in australia and i haven't met anyone who raises them.quote:They go hog-wild over standard birdseed, and it took some getting used to because their "yummy!" noise is extremely similar to a coturnix "I am attempting to murder something" noise. Also, the "bob, bob-WHITE" rooster crow is 1000% more charming than the "industrial machine had a fatal error" coturnix rooster crow. quote:(pecking is for losers. bobwhites BITE.) quote:
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Jan 10, 2022 05:05
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Joburg posted:I don’t know if it’s due to this cockerel craziness or spring hormones but Big Cheese and Clarence have done some posturing with each other too. Looks like I’m in for some exciting times this spring! 
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Jan 12, 2022 23:53
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Celestriad posted:We hatched a batch of chicks, and after the losses we had one kiddo who behaved really oddly. Side note on bobwhites--in our experience they are EXTREMELY delicate as chicks. We regularly lose 20% of our hatches in the same conditions where we might lose 3% of coturnix chicks. Once they hit a month old, they seem to be pretty much indestructible. This little month-old chick turned out to be blind, and was starting to get bullied. On a whim, we put him in with lonely Flamingo.  that is beautiful! thank you for sharing. quail are blessed
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Jan 16, 2022 03:29
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the ravens have become so bold they try to snatch the quail right in front of me. i say try because the quail are too heavy for them to fly off with, so they just pick them up and drop them. today quoll got picked up and dropped three times in as many minutes, but she saw no cause for concern and in between attempted abductions she just kept pobbling around without a care in the world
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Jan 22, 2022 11:21
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Jan 23, 2022 01:35
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City of Glompton posted:i love how focused yet content dusting birds are avid blobs
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Jan 27, 2022 01:08
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my cat is norris posted:all the quails are gone and my pet sitter broke the news to me by asking "how many quails should there be" and "is the corner of the coop supposed to be collapsed inward" Enfys posted:Very rough times for the chicken thread lately and I'm so sorry for all your losses
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Jul 31, 2022 00:06
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both my roosters died this week. mini-moose had been failing for a few weeks for no visible reason, he was still young and very healthy but suddenly took a turn for the worse. moose, who brooded him as a chick, stayed with him day and night for the last few days (they slept inside in a box together at night) and when it got cold she would put her wing over him, even though he was fully grown. he was snuggled up against her when he died. i gave his body to the ravens. a few days after that kestrel went over the fence, and the next day the ravens helpfully placed his picked-clean but intact headless skeleton (wings, legs and spine) on a log beside my back gate. they also stole my dog's kong, so i think it may be lean times for them right now. they've since delivered two lamb leg bones to my backyard, possibly in a gesture of reconciliation. in conclusion, the birds
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angry flat hens are an inspiration to me
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spookygonk posted:Today's the day: those lucky, lucky birds!
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Aug 14, 2022 11:32
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City of Glompton posted:there are three more in the other coop...only Lil' Pep isn't broody (yet)
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Aug 15, 2022 20:10
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Joburg posted:I passed under the guineas’ roosting tree this morning and got pooped on. Not a good omen!
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Aug 15, 2022 23:09
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Enfys posted:My chickens got into my blueberry bushes today, and even though it was only a couple of minutes before I noticed, they had the best couple of minutes < how did they end up going in the heatwave? i'm so glad that you managed to keep them all alive
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Enfys posted:they had a pretty rough time and I worried I was going to lose wee Birdie who has always been in poorer health than the others, but they're looking much better now and back to terrorising my garden every single one of those babies is their own little individual whose whole world is so much better and it's all because of you and your love for them. it's beautiful how simple they are. if they're terrorising the garden, they're happy, and they live in the moment so that's all that matters.
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