Animal Husbandry (exotic/atypical or farm care)
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?
@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!
@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.
@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.
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.
@Breezy2013
I have an African Grey too!!
@Sunflower78652
They are really amazing birds.
