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rocks  they were always the most perchy touchy-feely chooks in my flock, they're gorgeous. the weirdest ones were araucanas. strange, strange little polygonal blue birds.
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McGiggins posted:I've tried to get my hens to eat mice. I've caught them sunbathing while mice walk I physical in contact with their wings.
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daisy and bella reaffirm my faith in the universe here are some very spoilt quail, i have gone to ridiculous lengths to make them happy in their new home   bonus powerful felafel 
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get well soon pipelet  i wish i had some advice to offer but eyes are the one part of the body none of my birds have had a problem with yethope and vaseline posted:Felafel can get it 
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quail roosters are so bizarre, they're so gentle and nurturing of their hens until they get seized by the sudden irresistable urge to mate and then they just transform into these barbaric mindless engines of gently caress who will stop at nothing until they're satisfied. then as soon as penetration has taken place they turn back into their usual sweet selves (until the next time)
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Sep 16, 2019 04:38
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Lawson posted:She Died With A Felafel On Her Back
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Sep 16, 2019 06:05
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my cat is norris posted:Muldoon, who can only be caught at night, but spends his nights ten feet up a tree. 
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Sep 23, 2019 09:57
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pip pip bibbit here comes the qlown qrew  
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Sep 25, 2019 04:55
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Captain Log posted:I swear that quail is trying to be sexy in the last picture and I don't know how I feel about that.
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Sep 25, 2019 10:19
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Lawson posted:roast me like one of your french hens
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Sep 25, 2019 10:27
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every hen is queen of my heart
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Sep 25, 2019 10:58
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 the noble prairie fairy. wise, untamed, majestic 
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i love them too  they're just so stupid and it's not their fault here is hot chip preparing for take off, which i didn't realise was what she was doing until approximately 1.5 seconds after i took the photo. incidentally, today i got to meet some new neighbours! i also confirmed that only one adjacent yard is certain death (dog) which is much better than the last place i lived in. hot chip managed to not land in the death yard, she is home safe, and the completely stoned teenage boy who got to see me fish her out of the undergrowth in his backyard seemed charmed and delighted by the experience
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Oct 2, 2019 12:10
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Lawson posted:I would report anybody NOT charmed and delighted immediately, and who needs that sort of confrontation. You dodged a bullet there to be honest. stoned teenage boy was the best though, he guffawed and went "phwoar that's amazing!"
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Oct 3, 2019 01:35
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my cat is norris posted:It just sucks that my neighbor doesn't feel at all like a neighbor. When I move, I hope to be in much more relaxed (or at least communicative) circumstances.
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Oct 4, 2019 14:26
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Kharnifex posted:When I scatter superworms and mealworms and cover them with mulch, they definitely go into stealth mode and keep very quiet about what's on offer
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Oct 10, 2019 01:37
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Kharnifex posted:He has to prove his worth!
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Oct 10, 2019 08:18
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roosters (all species) have this beautiful thing where if they find their hen something delicious and she's obviously pleased with it, as she's eating it they will leap upon her. it's just so emotionally transparent and i respect them for it
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my cat is norris posted:Let's see how my quails are doing: they're lucky to have you
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Oct 12, 2019 01:13
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i know someone who claims their confirmed male cockatiel laid an egg, so is that possible too? or is kronos definitely a magnificent butch lady? both options are equally hilarious because everything involving silkies is hilarious
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Oct 13, 2019 10:52
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CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:Their ancestors were very good at surviving in the jungles of south Asia and are very smart when faced with the kinds of challenges you'd face there. We also spent a few thousand years breeding them to be plump and placid and completely lacking in self-preservation skills around humans and our other animal friends (dogs, cats, horses, babies) while being relatively self-sufficient when in large groups. They are simultaneously smarter than you'd expect and dumber than you'd expect. They're very good at doing things important to chickens. the cleverest poultry would probably have to be peafowl. someone told me turkeys are pretty smart too. are ducks and geese smarter than chickens? guinea fowl are even more extreme in being smart when it comes to pure survival skills but randomly the stupidest organism on earth when confronted with what seem like very basic challenges. mine couldn't figure out how to negotiate a waist-high fence. the chickens just popped straight over the top, but the guineas, who can fly, just ran back and forth and back and forth and back and forth clanking hysterically for hours quail are... they're quail
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Oct 13, 2019 11:50
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frida still goes "iiiiii-pi-pi-pi-pi-pyu~" when she hears the screen door shut, and that's all anyone can possibly ask of a quail
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Oct 13, 2019 14:34
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i wish i could tint my quail but they'd probably die of indignationLawson posted:Well some of us struggle when it comes to color, particularly this time of the season.
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Oct 14, 2019 03:08
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sometimes you look at a wikihow illustration and just know that making it was the highlight of the illustrator's day
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Oct 14, 2019 03:14
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Shifty Nipples posted:To be fair, much of what I see as chicken dumbness comes down to the language barrier. birds are weird
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Oct 14, 2019 05:28
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Shifty Nipples posted:Oh I bawk bawk at my chickens every day and like you say they go from suspicious to "oh yeah you are food god what's up", if only I could figure out what "stop jumping on top of the coop and stop trying to get over the fence in the neighbor's yard" is in bawks, clucks or trills. Oh and "stop digging up the rocks I laid out to deter rats".
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Oct 14, 2019 22:32
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every time i visited my dad he'd take me to his favourite lake, and in the car we'd have the same conversation as always. "you're not going to just throw the bread at me and run again so you can watch giggling from afar as i am swarmed by hungry geese, are you dad?" "no of course not, you can trust me" time and time again i was betrayed
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Oct 16, 2019 23:47
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i've never been maimed by a chicken beak but i did once pick up a guinea fowl while nude and got my tits severely raked (note to all, don't handle guinea fowl while nude)
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Oct 17, 2019 03:52
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guess who just bought a new INCUBATOR *transforms into a flock of quails and flies away*
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Oct 17, 2019 04:35
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hope and vaseline posted:How tf do you catch a guinea let alone sans clothing
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Oct 17, 2019 10:39
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my cat is norris posted:I took a break from the world tonight and watched a dumb movie (Mission Impossible: Fallout) and did a drawing of one of my blorbs.
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Oct 18, 2019 04:01
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the texture and patterning on the feathers is just fantastic. i've tried to capture the complexity of their plumage before and always come up short, but you nailed it! then of course there is that noble expression
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Sharpest Crayon posted:I thought your chicken looked metal af so I painted them, sorry not sorry. i'm loving this new thread direction
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Oct 20, 2019 02:38
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the gravitas of quail always amuses me. when i look at them closely, they're so bright-eyed and solemn-looking that i can almost fool myself into thinking they're wise, or at least, like, more intelligent than the average mushroom
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Oct 20, 2019 23:57
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   pictured: gravitas
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Oct 21, 2019 03:43
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my college has a horticultural department and i got the green light to steal as much sand as i want, so now my quail have a sandpit   early responses have been largely positive
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Lawson posted:One day I hope to be as blissfully content as the guy in the foreground. chickens and guineas love a bath too but quail just lose their minds the moment they see dust
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5er posted:The one thing I hate mine for, is that if you set down a plate of anything for them to eat, one of em will stamp right in the middle of the plate then poo poo somewhere on it. Almost every time.
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