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Animal Husbandry (exotic/atypical or farm care)

FleetingBardSong August 4th, 2020

Hello!

Is anyone up for discussions centered around exotic animal husbandry? Please share! I'd love to hear. This topic is mainly for exotic/atypical or farm husbandry, but everyone is welcome to share their love for their pets.

If you don't know where to start, here are some prompts (optional of course):

☆ What kinds of animals do you keep or want to keep?

☆ What other animal care interests you?

☆ How do your pets and related hobbies affect you positively?

☆ What have you learned from keeping animals?

☆ What other interests do you have?

I love invertibrate husbandry and am currently getting into the hobby of setting up bioactive terrariums. Currently I have a tank set up with hissing cockroaches (Gromphadorhina portentosa) and their clean up crew (Dairy cow isopods and springtails)!

I love tarantulas and currently have three spiderlings (I just had two sadly pass away without clear reason. A juvenile/sub-adult and a sling. If anyone could help me with this, please PM? All of my friends are stumped). My current species are T. albopilosum, B. hamorii, and G. pulchra. I should be having 3 more spiderlings on the way soon, and possibly an adult. In the realm of archnids, I also keep a Tegeneria domestica.

I would love to try keeping honey bees some day, but right now I don't have the energy to do so.

I also really enjoy the idea of keeping chickens for fresh eggs as they are very intelligent and interactive pets (also cruelty free eggs!).

I love the idea of herping and keeping frogs or toads, but I lack the energy to keep up with the responsibility.

What would you like to share?

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MidwesternCalmSeeker September 12th, 2020

@FleetingBardSong

Just saw this post and noticed that you hadn't had any responses. I read and found it fascinating! Unfortunately, I am not who you are seeking, but wanted to share that my daughter is currently breeding snails as well as guppies. :) Maybe someone messaged you privately about this, I don't know. I wanted you to know I found your post interesting, though, and hope you're still enjoying this! Have a great day/evening!

LMW September 30th, 2020

@FleetingBardSong

I am in the tfield and have been for 30 years. Started as a zookeeper and have worked with everything form elephants to fish. Actually use to breed a couple of species of cockroachs as fooed source for endangered Colorado River Toads. Oh youth!

I am currently working with shelter animals with behavior issues and privately work with senior parrots.

Always wanted to farm sheep and pigs but never been able to afford the land.

Enby15 November 29th, 2020

@FleetingBardSong I have a crested gecko but I want a few more cresties maybe a gargoyle gecko or 2 a blue tongued sking and a hedge hog. And a pig. And a ferret. And maybe rats.

Breezy2013 November 29th, 2020

I have a Timneh African Grey Parrot, a dog, an Aquarium, Five laying Hens and two older Retired Horses. My Timneh African Grey was Handreared as a Baby, so thinks he is a person. Because of that he is an incredible talker, I can have conversations with him and he has cognition, but along with that he is very human bonded and I cant go anywhere in the house without him flying along behind me and landing on me.

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Sunflower78652 November 30th, 2020

@Breezy2013

I have an African Grey too!!

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Breezy2013 December 1st, 2020

@Sunflower78652

They are really amazing birds.

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