The beetle

This Darkling beetle is very common in our yard. especially under the tramp.

now, they are a endangered speices

Outside!

They are under our trapoline this is the ducks first time out and first time with the chickens. the ducks tend to stay in more of a flock.

 That's a barbed plymoth rock in the background

 Cute.

 Ducks and chickens

guinea fowl 1 week old!!

Our guinea fowl are here at last!! we got them to protect the ducks and chickens because want these guys are older they will set a territory (our yard) and learn who can and can't be in our yard when they see something that doesn't belong, SCREECH!!! they made the loudest sound! then they start charging to scare the predator (or your friends). they look like a cross between a chicken and a turkey when they are adults.

 

Duck bath

I let my ducks bathe every evening. But before they get their feathers in (and natural oils) you need to dry the belly and chest. the lamp will do the rest. They really like to bathe!! (well duh! their ducks!)

 Splash!!

Sploosh!

Our Fowl

Yep, That's the fowl we have at the moment. But we will be getting some guinea chicks on the ninth of april

Ducklings! (1 week)

Emma (10 years) and the Ducklings

A month already?!

Fully Fledged, been outside a few times, Almost pullets!! (2 months-year old)

 Sally Henny Penny (barbed pylmoth rock. black) And Ruby (Rhode island red)

 Most of them

 Couchin (french) and Sally

 Darth vader

 Off you go!

Darth vader (barbed plymoth rock) held by Aiden (8 years)

2 weeks old

Only picture, Sorry! But you can see that their feathers are coming in

1 week old chicks!

Sorry! the pictures are'nt that great They need the red light

 Owl is the chick with brown and tan markings

Sally Henny Penny

My betta's for future breeding

I am breeding betta's and I need to sell my little beauties so comment on this post to tell me which babies of which parents you want

 This is Azreron I am getting a female for him

 Dragon, His female is Eclipse

 Albino, just got a female for him but not in these pictures

Eclipse, Dragon's female

Brine shrimp hatchery

Brine shrimp hatchery!! I hatched my own brine shrimp to feed to my fishies and I bought a kit of brine shimp hatch mix, the stand, and some tubing. But beware!! they stink!!! ;) 

 The hatchery

the air pump

Breeding betta's!!!

Betta's successfully breeding at last!!! I started when I was first starting to keep fish and I tried to do it in bowls. Go figure.both of the Betta's I tried to breed died within days of each other! It never worked. Then I learnt some secrets

 This is my male dragon, one of the ones I have just successfully bred

(by the way the babies I will sell when they are a inch long)

 My female, Eclipse.

 When the male is ready to breed He will tell you by building a bubble nest then you are supposed to put him (and the Female floating in a jar) in a five gallon tank at the least and he will see the female and start to build the bubble nest. This nest is critical to the babies survival, because over hundreds of years Betta's have formed a way to stay alive when the rice paddies in Thailand have dried up and when the babies are hatched they only have this extra organ and their gills have not fully developed. that is why some times you see your Betta go to the top of the water and kind of swallow air

Eclipse floating in the jar

when you let your female loose in the tank with the male and his now really big bubble nest (my Betta's was about five inches long and two inches tall) he will try to chase the female under his bubble nest. it can take from 2 to 24 hours and my pair did not start the embrace  until the male was chasing the female around for 22 hours! another thing that is pretty critical to breeding Betta's is having a cave for the female to hide from the male so she can rest.

after the embrace the female Will appear as if she were dead and the eggs will come out as little white almost flake-looking things the most I've seen come at a time is 10 and they did the embrace roughly 10 times. when the eggs first came he looked like he was eating them! he was actually picking them up with his mouth and popping them in the bubble nest. the female ate some but in all, I think I have about 100 eggs at the least. I will write another post about how to care for the minuscule fry.