#handraised

[bluebudgie]

So the "Super Sophisticated Siege Turtle" was translated as "Besonders hochwertige Belagerungsschildkröte" in the german gemstore and it's been amusing me for weeks now.

I don't know if it was a conscious choice or partly a translation error, but they didn't keep the "Super" (from Super Adventure Box obviously) but quite literally translated it as an adjective. So the german name of the skin translated back to english is pretty much "Particularly High Quality Siege Turtle" and it's honestly hilarious.

[akhuna01]

Eni Update!

She's about a month old now! This week she spent 2 nights at my friend's house (the one who found her and brought her to me, actually!) While my family and I were away. I had hoped that they would want to keepheras a pet, but unfortunately they have a very small home and a very rambunctious puppy who would be too dangerous for her.

So she returned to me on friday, and promptly moved into the bigger tank!

I forgot if i made a post about it or not, and i couldn't find one with the search tool, so I'll talk about it anyway.

It's an old fish tank, 80 cm x 35 cm x 40 cm. I made a lid from aluminium fly screen mesh and L-shaped wooden floor trims, and hot glue. it fits realy snugly and still lets in all the air, so it's working out great so far! I'm planning on building an extension to go on top, which will add another 45 cm of height for climbing.

She loves balancing along the sticks and loves the multi - chambered house. I think she's happy, she still comes running whenever i reach in - she loves pets and snuggles. Unfortunately she's a bit too fast/wriggly/ difficult to come out to hang with me on my bed now, lol. Maybe she'll mellow out a bit when she gets older.

I love her so much. She's a good little mouse! I wish I could get her a friend, but i've read that it's not a great idea to introduce pet mice to her, they are not the same species and cannot communicate or reproduce. (I do NOT want baby mice, at all costs).

Well, for now she'll be my pampered pet. If an opportunity arises to get her a buddy I'll give it a try.

[tired-needs-sleep]

the best part about rhea's run is the fact that i've been able to take down most fights with a 3-6/6 eeveeloution team. there's at least half of them being veevees and i think that's really funny. ice catfox one shots dragonshark with blizzard

seriously. the team i used for the vs solaris in agate was 5/6. the oddball was névé for aroura veil. i believe that saphira was 6/6 too with zirconeon sweeping after glaceon changed the field

[ryopromoter]

olla olla!

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[freebirddaddy]

For sale

Get in touch for pricing and availability

[kedreeva]

Might be a silly question, but if someone needed to handraise a male peafowl, could they wear some sort of face covering and use a hand puppet like wildlife rehabbers and zookeepers do to prevent imprinting?

The ONLY reason anyone would "need" to handraise a peacock is if the bird is in need of major medical attention that requires more handling than usual. Rehabbers use hand puppets for feeding chicks, but peafowl are precocious- they aren't directly fed by their mothers or fathers, they are just shown foods and they eat by themselves. They're also pretty perceptive little shits with excellent eyesight right from hatch, and do NOT like things that look like peafowl but Aren't (they seem to have an uncanny valley, I have video of chicks freaking out when shown not-real peafowl), so I would think a puppet wouldn't work anyway.

The good news is pretty much no one should "need" to hand raise a peacock; most major medical issues should be culled, not raised, and ones that ARE raised should be handled by experienced keepers that can deal with the problems that occur. This is a part of responsible breeding.

And any chick that isn't a medical issue should never be a "need." Peafowl breeding season is during the summer, when people all over the place are hatching a bazillion chickens, turkeys, guinea, and quail every day- including large box stores like TSC, FFH, and other farm stores, and local feed mills often have local bred chicks. You should have no problem finding companions for solo peachicks (or groups), and you should be able to leave any groups of chicks alone enough to not imprint them.

[barksbog]

Fresh Slug Steaks!

made from Normal Slugs handraised and butcherd in Austria according to Guidelines, 100% real "Meat", about 300g/10.5oz per steak

grab them from my butchers shop: barks-bog.com

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

Unimportant question you don't have to engage with: Have you heard of the tv show "The Zoo" which is a show about the Bronx Zoo? If you have or you've seen it, what do you think? :D If you don't know about it, I do recommend it!

Anyway, pls, zoo photos!

I have! I watched the first two (?) seasons prior to my first trip to the Bronx Zoo. There’s also spin-offs at a couple other zoos, although I can’t remember offhand which ones other than Disney’s Animal Kingdom.

Overall I remember it being a good show. They dealt very honestly with things like injury and euthanasia. I would have liked to see more about the reality of the job (manual labor) and some explanation of safety procedures and stuff, but I know that’s not why most people actually watch it. I think it was a pretty fair look into the way facilities operate and how they care for the animals.

It also does show how stuff can sometimes be not great! I remember one of the episodes with handraised tiger cubs being put into the big habitat for the first time, and director’s wife was filmed putting her hands all the way through the chain-link fence to scratch them. It is something that happens? Sure. Should it? Probably not, and it’s not great to have management doing on camera. But I liked that it didn’t hide that.

I will say I don’t know exactly how approval of what goes into the show happens. I’m not sure how involved zoos get to be in saying “no we don’t want x covered” or “don’t film in y area.” The shows are in effect advertising for the zoo and for AZA, but that doesn’t mean they’re propaganda or can’t be trusted afaik.

The only reason I haven’t kept up on the shows is because I try to keep recreation time separate from work brain. I think they’re worth a watch! And I’m happy to chat about stuff folk notice or wonder about. (Tell me what you see!)

[neurotypical-sonic]

when we were handraising lambs, we'd keep an eye on the forecast and if there was a strong wind warning for overnight we would have to go and collect the lambs to lock them in the shed, rather than letting them roam. because they are small lambs and the strong weather could hurt or kill them. and I think if theres a strong wind warning people go to check in on the chao gardens to make sure theyre all okay

[pigeon-behavior]

By the way, here's a heads up for people who may be somewhat new to pigeons (and excited to get a friendly one!) and have heard the term "ethical breeders" passed around.

This has a really specific meaning. And unfortunately how we use it in the pet pigeon community is not going to be how people in the rest of the pigeon community understand it.

You may be saying, "Well I don't know how the pet pigeon community defines ethical breeders!"

Well I may as well walk you through the whole thing:

For the purposes of this post let me clarify that the "pet pigeon community" I'm referring to here is the CPC discord server and its satellite entities, including the tumblrs and instagrams of prominent knowledgeable individuals and/or breeders. I'm not sure what say, GLPRs definition is, and for the purposes of understanding what I'm saying here, I am going to refer to them as the rescue pigeon community to help differentiate. God knows Palomacy doesn't deserve the title.

So then, what do we define as an ethical breeder?

Well, ethical breeders must do certain things.

Some examples:

-Provide adequate predator-proof, clean housing for their birds, without overcrowding

-Practice hatch control (aka not letting birds breed endlessly, for a variety of reasons)

-Work towards a goal (produce good temperaments, better a line's structure or color)

-Be willing and able to provide vet care

-Not seek monetary profit (if you're doing it right there will never be profit, only a black hole you throw cash into)

-Never handraise babies on purpose (but shit happens)

-Know your individual pigeons, understand their personalities and bodies, and what they have to pass down to offspring

-Socialize young parent raised pigeons

-Put animal Welfare before animal Rights. Animal rights are useless. Animal welfare makes a difference.

-Be willing to euthanize a pigeon that needs it

-Work with ethical breeds, or be actively in the process of making a breed more ethical (aka functional)

This is probably not exhaustive but its what comes to mind now. It's a decent core of it.

When you get a pigeon from an ethical breeder, you're likely paying more money. And you should be. More money was already invested into that animal.

And what did you get out of it? Well, for one, a MUCH lower chance your new bird is going to cost you $500 in vet fees. And that isn't even MENTIONING the enormous, ENORMOUS difference in temperament between your average pigeon and one that comes from an ethical breeder under this definition.

There is no better chance of receiving a bird that is friendly out-of-box. Which is really big, considering it can take half a year to bond with a pigeon.

But there's unfortunately a problem here. And it's that people new to this community who are very excited about getting a pigeon don't know that people elsewhere are going to have an entirely different definition of ethical breeder.

If you go on Facebook, where most of the Old Pigeon Guys reside, and ask in a breed group, "Are there any ethical breeders in here?" hoping to find yourself a pet, a bunch of guys will come in to the comments and be like

"well of course we're ethical breeders"

Having no idea what you're on about, but generally being too polite to question your weird phrasing.

And you will have been misled. Through no fault of anyone's. Through no malicious intent.

But if you're looking for an ethical breeder for a friendly bird, the result you get that way will be a disappointment.

I hope someone finds this informative and helpful. Shoutout to my buddy at Renaissance Loft for bringing up this issue recently and planting a bug in the back of my brain about it lol

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[da-janela-lateral]

Something that really pisses me off is when I'm watching a cute video of a bird bonding with its owner and some guy in the comments goes "beautiful bird....so sad its caged...they should be free humans are such egoistic cruel monsters" okay abandon your dog in the wild. Lets not talk about the ethics of how bird ownership started but. Are you sure? Are you sure its a good idea to release an animal which was raised on captivity and doesn't have the instincts to find resources? Or better, a specimen that is not even from this ecossystem and will make damage if it survives? Its understandable to feel like this about how birds are primary targets of illegal animal trade, but not handraised birds with responsible owners. Do you know what will happen if you release it. It will die. It is literally animal abandonment. Yet I don't see anyone saying about freeing chickens do I.

[rhiannonhgarrard]

Finished #16 for the series I'm debuting in October, and it's mind-blowing to look back at #1 (in a good way).

For context, these are all incredibly short stories (we're talking 10-20k words MAX) before someone has a panic attack, lol. But I just finished typing up #16 on Saturday, and went back to #1 which I'm going to start publish in October, just to check over it. It's just... so different - the characters have changed so much, it's almost surreal to look back on who they were, and who they are now. One character has been a suffering addict almost as long as I've known him, and later on in the series, he gets clean. He is so different without that monkey on his back, it's unbelievable. Another character was a shrinking violet when I met them, and now has evolved into the greatest badass of the series. It's so weird to look back on the people they were, and who they are now, over 15 stories later. Even the Mask goes through a massive change, that I can't cover here for the sake of spoilers. It's just so odd to come back to all these characters before they changed. In a way, I feel like I'm watching baby birds I handraised take their first flight. I feel like this is something only other writers would fully understand, because "Oh, my imaginary friend is doing so well!" is something that gets you weird looks irl, lol. #so proud of my MC #Not just me, right?

[raeloganthesonic06fangirl]

Tori was excited about going outside on the porch and she just had to tell Hook before she followed us outside, lol

Tori is a dog that's been raised around cats, and Hook is a cat that's been around a dog his whole life, they absolutely think of each other as family~

Notice that Tori is holding back on actually making much contact with him, and Hook's ears and tail are relaxed. Cats and dogs can get along just fine, but you have to start them early on and they have to have thier own safe spaces and you should step in when there's a hint of agitation. Especially if the dog has a prey drive or is much larger than the cat. Hook and his siblings were handraised while Tori had a big presence around them, so he knows Tori as part of his "clowder", but probably doesn't know that Tori isn't just some funny looking cat, lol.

In other news: Zilla, Hook and Buttons are gonna be 2 years old next month!

[ryopromoter]

who is the cutest boy in all the land?

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[freebirddaddy]

Incoming handraised babies for the end of January 🥰

[bufomancer]

Meet Thimble!

Thimble is a captive bred white footed deer mouse. He is legal for me to own in my state because he is captive bred. Your laws may vary.

Thimble’s story is a bit disjointed because much of it is secondhand. I saw an ad in my local rehoming group for a mother mouse and her young litter. I messaged my friend in the city they were listed in, she had seen the ad as well and inquired. We both thought the babies didn’t look like domestic mice! Turns out the rehomer had gotten them from her neighbor who had been breeding deer mice in her garage. The day my friend went to pick up the mom and her babies, mom escaped. So my friend took the litter and handraised it as the owner wasn’t able to. A few babies didn’t make it but 5 did, and Thimble was the only male so I adopted him and brought him home today.

He is adorable.