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STICKERS!!!! who doesn’t love a good rainbow lizard. get this design as a sticker and printed on so many random things HERE

amazingpetenclosures

by my.gecko.luvs

#gorgeous

wafflesworld

Dis good spot. Soft bed, warm sun...

Bird!!!

horrorandhalloween

by NekoGekko

superziggy

In attempts to get Teka to stop chewing at my books, I put on some dance music.

geromanly

Poor buddy’s confused because it wants to eat book, but HAS to dance

birbfriends

Classic

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congrats to the ARAs who got facebook to ban animal sales. shortly before then, many rare heritage chicken breeds were getting much needed attention to save the breeds thanks to various agricultural facebook pages highligting them. but now, with the ban of animal sales on facebook, those heritage breeds have become damn near impossible to find again. guess what that means? the breeds will begin dying out again. people will go back to hatcheries who mass produce unhealthy chicken breeds in horrible conditions. folks will always buy chickens, but now instead of buying them from ethical breeders on facebook they’ll be supporting a terrible industry, woohoo.

hope y’all are proud.

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as a note for those who don’t know why heritage breeds are so good: they aren’t bred to overproduce. they’re bred for health and longevity. a production leghorn lays over 300 eggs a year and will live MAYBE three years. usually dying of some horrible reproductive illness, even in a good environment. the production meat hybrids get so meaty so quickly that they can’t physically live passed a few months, eight months is the absolute max before their legs stop being able to carry them or their heart gives out. they can’t breed on their own, they don’t live long enough.

heritage breed chickens must average over six years to be considered heritage. they’re hardy birds that lay fewer eggs, often 250 or less. there are many breeds bred for meat, but they grow slowly and breed on their own. they can live long, full lives. there are dual purpose breeds. these heritage breeds have valuable, unique genetics that not only benefit us humans, but their species as well! we have breeds that can withstand frigid winters, fight off disease thanks to breeders breeding for immunity, live far longer than junglefowl (what chickens were bred from thousands of hears ago), and all sorts of cool things. these unique genes hugely benefit science.

corperate hatcheries don’t breed for these things, they might have birds that they claim are heritage breeds, but they almost always have production mixed in. they breed on a massive, uncaring scale. by banning facebook sales, ARAs are saying a big “fuck you” to breeders who are just trying to keep a breed alive and maybe make a living doing so. although i rarely meet breeders who make more money than they pour into those birds. yes, there are bad breeders, but there are a lot of really awesome breeders. all big hatcheries are bad. the decision to ban animal sales directly benefits those bad hatcheries, and none of the breeders.

mellifexfarm

this is happening with pigeons as well and its terrible. it was already damn near impossible to find a good pigeon breeder but now it IS impossible since all the groups are getting shut down, facebook was one of the few places you could meet some breeders, other than meeting them at exhibitions or clubs in person. it sure is significantly speeding up the decline of the already-scarce hobby of keeping pigeons, thats for sure

followthebluebell

It’s hit the reptile and amphibian hobby hard too. We used to have a page to vet buyers/sellers. No one wants to buy a sick animal or support someone who treats their animals poorly. That page was removed, taking out years of reviews.

It’s also going to have a huge impact on genetic diversity since it limits our ability to match animals. Bearded dragons are intensely inbred; the ability to find good lines was essential to correcting this.

bonefarm

It’s happening in rabbits too. And I’d like to echo ALL of these points because they’re good.

Although who are we kidding? The elimination of specific breeds, and animal keeping as a whole, is 100% a goal of the ARA movement.

creekfiend

Sheep as well! The Florida Cracker Sheep group on there still has a lot of cool info but its damn hard to hook up with breeders except in PMs and even then … fb messaging sucks, ppls PM settings vary, and even being like “check out this sheep. PM me” is considered a Suspect Post these days :/

anarchy-kisses

...t i ny

king-monky

my favourite wikipedia article is the middle english article about frogges

king-monky

“A frogge ben a wee beeſt wiþ foure legges, þe whiche liveþ boþ in water and on lond. He ben broun or grene or yelwe, or if he be tropical, he may be dyuers coloures. He haþ longis and gylles boþ. He haccheþ fro an ei and he þen be a tadpolle. He groweþ to be a frogge, if he be nat eton.”

nothing makes me laugh like “if he be nat eton”

toadschooled

The incredible head-to-body ratio of the New Holland frog [Cyclorana novaehollandiae], a large burrowing frog native to New South Wales. They’re commonly seen following periods of heavy rain. Males produce a loud “waah” call as a means to attract females. Images by Jean-Marc Hero.

laurelhach

it’s Chimichurri! She was such a good girl today that she got to sniff some outdoor things

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me, talking to a pair of bullfrogs: alright girls. what happens in the bog stays in the bog, okay? alright? now how are we feeling about government destruction tonight

toadschooled

If you want to enter this pipe, you must first defeat its steadfast guardian. This female Bankor toad [Bufo bankorensis] looks out from her home in a mossy drainage pipe in Taiwan. Females of this species regularly reach 8 inches in length, whereas males are a little over half this size. Images by Flickr user NEO_ARISE.

sanjuanfrog

She is majestic and I love her.

toadschooled

Here we see a paradise toad [Vandijkophrynus robinsoni], a species native to western South Africa and parts of Namibia. These toads are often found near permanent water sources, where they burrow into the nearby dry sediment to avoid the heat of the day. Images by Sebastian Wolf.