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Pretty sure I ran a longer extension cord than that from the garage to the old wood oat bin I used a coop for awhile. :lol: In florida though it would be easy enough to just run a power cable and wire it direct from the nearest source to an outlet. Any basic electrician could do it or for...

General rule is bright enough you can easily read a newspaper at the level of the animal. Even told to me by a vet as well as poultry keepers and other small livestock.

I'm not sure what happens when it ferments but fresh it's about 35% protein dry weight. Possibly higher. 86% or so of it is water so it takes a ton to make much concentrated nutrition out of but it doubles itself in days under good lighting with enough nutrients in the water so all you really...

Try watching some aquarium groups or stopping by swaps. Particularly in warmer parts of the country where year round outdoor pools are common. Plant cuttings and extras of fast growers are often free or a few bucks from clean sources besides maybe algae and hitchhikers that you don't care...

Technically you can feed mealworms and just about anything else you can think of but normally you would do so in a contained area with a feeding dish that isn't going to spoil or escape before they find them. The captive frogs also have little choice and are used to the feeding dish. To just...

Fat is hard to see on rabbits. They pack much of the fat into the abdomen first so under their skin and their overall shape may seem perfectly fine even when their internal organs are being surrounded by fat deposits. A visibly fat rabbit is a VERY out of shape rabbit. Keeping rabbits in...

There are some pics of nicon in my thread on our bioactive enclosures. He's my test subject since he's currently my biggest bulldozer. The picture above I took a bit nervously because he was fairly new and got startled by something so he was in the process of giving me death threats. That's...

My issue with humidity is winter. All late spring through fall my room humidity can sit at 50-60% with a dehumidifier in the basement but no matter what I do my furnace kicks out somewhere below 15-20% humidity. I don't have anything that reads lower than that. Despite the blood python...

I placed some 4x8" slate tiles along the edges to stop digging. They'll need to settle in some places since it was hard to get flat. My arms barely reach the bottom even standing on a ladder. Nicon decided to bluff strike at me while I was digging the soil out of the gravel layer to place the...

My brave akita is scared to death of the bug zapper. She watched a fly go zzzzzt and wouldn't go out the back door again. :lol:

If there is no reason to worry too much about disease does will usually breed just as well after a short car ride as they would have at home in my experience. There's a reason they have to put a ban on people letting rabbits breed in the show room. If rabbits are ready they will usually breed...

I've never had a problem using ivermectin prior to breeding or in pregnant animals. Rabbit or otherwise. I actually prefer to dose a pregnant or nursing doe to get rid of an acute problem so I don't have to risk measuring it out for very young and small offspring. I find a topical dose...

The spring I got Barairo (literally translates as "rose colored" named after the typical red rosy boa stripe) I went into the room to find her sitting in a 5gallon tank on the floor with no heat, the windows open, it was about 60F, and she was supposedly still eating only the occasional pinky...

Bacteria and yeast definitely have a smell when opportunistic infections overwhelm weakened immune systems and often different body tissue will have a smell as well. It could be the disease directly or it could be other things that result from it but it is often detectable to non-human...

Personally I like my pitouphis species (gophers, bulls, and pines) but they are relatively large (up to 8' but most stay closer to 6') and quick to get defensive with a rattlesnake imitation. You will get bit taming a young one. Many times. Even a tame adult will on occasion decide to claim a...

You can salt them and just stack loosely until you are ready to start scraping and working them. It just takes a lot of salt and being liberal with it. The ones I didn't rub enough salt deep enough still did not smell or rot but the flies were interested. I redid those a bit better and it...

You can also get tuberculosis from a fish tank but do you think that happens often enough anyone with common sense really considers it when doing tank maintenance? Many even still start the water change suction with their mouths and spit the aquarium water out... Personally not me but I prefer...

I've kept several in the past and then I was breeding imported bettas for awhile. I found I didn't really enjoy it as much as setting up more natural large tanks for a species to spawn at will or multiple species. Many of my planted tanks were also balanced to pretty much never need water...

Also quite illegal. Some warmer states might allow for outdoor enclosures but venomous reptiles require a license and inspection across the US. Aside from seeing the snakes are cared for they also make sure they are properly secured and cannot be accessed unsupervised. Usually locked...

I've had a rabbit die when 2 water sources failed and it was only drinking twice a day when the water was refilled and temporarily worked. They can die quickly with even restricted water. Flavoring the nozzle or wedging something in it to make it drip can get them to start using it sooner. We...