#get learnt

[craigslisthorses]

Fun work day! Mare was checked by another veterinarian in foal with twins and just "hoped" one would go away! They didn't! Mare received an estrumate shot last week to essentially abort the twins, upon ultrasound you could see the embryos breaking down so we did an in and out flush to retrieve the remnants. A perfectly preserved little embryo came out, this is what a horse embryo looks like at 45-50ish days.

[alliekills]

Do you know what hypnosis is

yeah it’s when you move your hips against another girl’s body until you reach homostasis

[tetedurfarm]

the colourpoint coat colour like in himalayans is temperature sensitive!  it’s a form of albinism that only affects the warmest parts of the animal (it’s not just in rabbits - this is how siamese cats work too!) and leave the extremities coloured.  that’s why the nose, ears, feet, and tail have colour because those are the coldest parts.  

‘smut’ is what it’s called when there’s dark areas on a colourpoint animal that shouldn’t be there as per standard.

here is another photo of thumps, the chill lady i’m holding in the other post.  you can see that the edge of her nose marking is “messy” and around her eyes there’s colour -  that’s not supposed to be there.  this is caused by areas on the animal that aren’t normally cold getting cold, changing the colour of the hair (wild, i know.)  it can occur very quickly - quick enough that if you take a rabbit to a show in winter, they’ll get lines on their legs from leaning against the cold bars of their carry cage.  smut is the bane of every colourpoint exhibiter, and you have to wait until their next moult - often a full six months - before it’ll go away.

washington’s snowmageddon is pretty much over but thumps here is near the from of the barn meaning she dealt with more wind than everyone else and even a little snow, so her little face got all smutty from being a little cold for a few days.  but don’t worry, rabbits adore cold weather.  they wear fur coats year-round after all.

[arinewman7]

Raphael

[red-pandaaaaaaa]

call out post for better insect education

do you KNOW how many people think crane flies are just some big ass mosquitos? Like look at these big awkward babies:

Nice boi:

They’re like a daddy longleg mixed with dragonfly.

THEY EVEN COME IN COLORS

THEY ARE NOT MOSQUITOS

EVIL BOI (aka mosquito):

Comparison:

These little fuckers are just clueless idiots that get stuck in bathroom corners because their brains are the size of a needle head. They live like 2 weeks so stop screaming like babies when they fly near you. You probably just got in their way and their tiny little brains can’t even come up with error signals fast enough to tell them to fly he other way.

[windwakerjj]

A Nature Lesson!

[arcaneloquence]

I am tellin y’all

If you have an interest in actively educating yourself:

Write.

It doesn’t matter what kind of writing you’re doing—humor, roleplay, fiction, nonfiction, fantasy, sci-fi, mystery, thriller, western... If you write, you will find stuff out.

I just had to look up the history of mayonnaise. Did you know the earliest reference to mayonnaise that actually uses that word was apparently in 1806? Because I didn’t. That may seem like trivial knowledge, but the point is, by writing, you will be forced to learn all kinds of random things you didn’t know. And all of those little things lead to bigger things, and you will learn valuable research skills as well as cohesive concepts, ideas, and history. You will learn to extrapolate. You will learn to question. You will learn to verify. You will learn to criticize. You will learn to follow clues.

You 👏 will 👏 learn. 👏

So write. To write, you’ll have to read. You’ll go wiki-walking. You will be exposed to notions you hadn’t considered. And you will learn, whether it’s about Urdu honorifics or the origins of the tennis shoe or the history of eyeshadow, you will learn.

[moonmotherrr]

anyway that thing the witches are doing to donald trump isn't a hex it's a binding