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livingart

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  1. only one of each night was partially eaten most just had bite marks to the back of the neck when we first started on the property we had a local idiot who thought it was funny one night to chuck a tame ferret into the main pen we had setup it killed 17 guinea pigs, 5 young turkeys and 4 young pheasants before i caught up with it
  2. sadly ferrets kill for no reason as well 5 dead birds and only one partially eaten
  3. i just sieve the flour, pancakes still taste the same what are yours invading bulldogod?
  4. just start handling them daily when they start showing pinfeathers wait till mum is out of the nest no perfume or anything like that on your hands, no i am not suggesting you wear perfume you can make your own hand rearing mix but HR not necessary with budgies or cockatiels males are best as pets as they talk best, sexing takes an experienced eye at a young age
  5. i think caper is right sorry missed that one :oops: wait for more opinions before making your descision baino
  6. caper are you up early or going to bed late?
  7. probably the same as trimming your fingernails, oh anthropomorphic one
  8. apparently it is a common problem with breeding some longfinned livebearers http://www.aquaboards.com/viewtopic.php?id=2643 reminds me of jacobean pigeons which need long feathers trimming so they can see and then mate with the females
  9. found a site on google for this a while back sorry can't remember where but involved a pair of scissors and snipping back to a normal gonopodium length try googling trimming gonopodium
  10. might be just a delay in eggs hatching maybe some type of waxmoth?
  11. if thats the case then dinners on me tonight
  12. i got given a small tub of shelled macadamia nuts for xmas, they were left for 3 days with the lid off then lid put back on and put away in a cupboard so a month ago i found they had a few small white caterpillar or worms in them, so i put the lid back on and put them in the locust tank i now have about 500 plus worms and no sign of a beetle or moth yet they have a silk they produce like a waxmoth but don't seem to have changed yet any help id ing them would be appreciated
  13. welcome to the forum greenlight what is the pond made of, it will help to know so correct advise can be given on the way you repair it
  14. hi baino welcome to the forums the use of capital letters usually denotes you are shouting a rough translation of what you wrote Hi there, can anyone help with my tropical fish? i have a female fighter, 2 red tailed tetras, a siamese algae eater and would like to add guppies and long finned danios. will any of the first three pose a threat to the ones i want to add?, i heard the tetras may be a problem. i also have a shark and swordtail male, if the guppies and danios breedwill any of these eat their eggs or live ones, thanks have not long started with tropicals, so i am quite new to this the only real threat i can see to the other fish is possibly the shark if it is a red tailed black shark and all the fish will eat other fishes eggs and young if they can fit in their mouths it is better to breed in a seperate tank, though some guppies should survive if you have thick plantings enjoy your time here
  15. don't worry it was very quick and about a humane as you can get i love all animals, insects etc just some are in the wrong place or hands
  16. leave the snakes out of the situation barrie yes twinkles responsible owners would be ok i think you summed up the problem there, humans are involved dog registration has been round awhile and we still have dogs roaming, biting and unregistered, so microchipping and registration does not fix the problem until everyone complies and you will never get full compliance so the only thing the powers that be can do is ban completely a ferret can't help eating to survive it is doing what comes naturally it is not a vegetarian
  17. well done alan solid advice
  18. in mine they are hard to sex sometimes but generally the males show more black on their fins
  19. that is part of nature mystic and there is really no like or dislike about it as it balances itself out whereas man puts the balance out in nz man(woman included, lets share the blame) brought many animals etc to this country that are now problems he brought rabbits for food, fur and as pets , no predators for rabbits here just the odd hawk and falcon rabbits (surprisingly) bred like rabbits so he introduced mustelids to control them naturally, everyone had jobs back then no time to go shoot rabbit the poor old native animals had no chance as they hadn't had to deal with a major ground predator before and are easier pickings than rabbits, no contest as an example the nz and australian brown quail are taxonomically almost the same bird, the nz brown quail is thought to be almost extinct whereas the australian one is still running around nz the possible reason is the nz quail when approached would sit still and wait for you to walk over and pick it up, easy pickings whereas the aussie quail when approached too closely will startle and take off 2 different reactions the aussie bird evolved with a lot of ground predators with a keen sense of smell, the nz ones evolved with no ground predators (maybe the Weka) so didn't need to run so man mucked up the balance and man needs to fix it though it is probably too costly to do nowadays even one pregnant mustelid left is one too many
  20. he is waiting till they get bigger
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