Author Topic: Picture of your pet - pets (Read 7515 times)

ShepherdofSheep · « **Reply #15 on:** July 03, 2013, 10:00:22 AM »

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Here's Cricket, our beloved bearded dragon. Don't know why it attached upside down.

Oh, I love beardies! I've always wanted one, but, well...it's rather difficult to justify yet another little piece of nature here.

I don't have any pictures of my own, but I'll post one of what my brown anoles and fire-bellied toads looked like.

Brown anole (Anolis sagrei) male thrusting out his dewlap in either a display of courtship or territoriality.

Oriental fire-bellied toad (Bombina orientalis)- semi-aquatic and a great introduction to herpetology for neophytes!

I've also had Caribbean land hermit crabs (Coenobita Clypeatus), but I think most people have an idea of what those look like!

JohnAnthonyMarie · « **Reply #16 on:** July 03, 2013, 10:05:44 AM »

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my wolfdog Caligo

We were relaxing at Santa Monica's beach when small group of children started playing in the sand near us. They were making a sand castle, laughing and playing. Caligo simply loves to play with children, and all the action so close to us was really getting her all wound up. She kept scratching the sand and looking at me, so I clicked a picture and gave her the go-ahead to play with them. She immediately jumps into the middle of the hole they were digging and starts helping out (digging like the pro digger she is). Everyone went wild, laughing and screaming, sand flying everywhere... They all played in the sand for a while, then everyone ran to the surf, including Caligo. It was a really fun day!

JohnAnthonyMarie · « **Reply #17 on:** July 03, 2013, 10:09:47 AM »

Arne and Aeraria

JohnAnthonyMarie · « **Reply #18 on:** July 03, 2013, 10:13:32 AM »

BabyDoll, Mustang

ShepherdofSheep · « **Reply #19 on:** July 03, 2013, 10:16:57 AM »

Beautiful goats and horse!

Now am I going to have to post ours, too?

Your pup looks quite intelligent.

JohnAnthonyMarie · « **Reply #20 on:** July 03, 2013, 10:51:29 AM »

Quote from: ShepherdofSheep

Beautiful goats and horse!

Now am I going to have to post ours, too?

Your pup looks quite intelligent.

Thank you so much! I do so enjoy their company.
The horse was a rescue from BLM at 5 months old; She is two and a half now.
The goats were also adopted; The female was orphaned, on formula, and seriously dehydrated when I rescued her (so I found a local herd from which I acquired milk every morning to improve her health). The male had his horns improperly banded and rejected by the previous owner at 8 months old. The pair proved themselves this past December with their first kid. I also keep a flock of chickens (adopted rooster and eight hens), and annually raise pigs (Poland China and Hampshire). I had a pair of Dorper sheep, and their first offspring, but found them a good herd to join so they have moved on (I can't say I really mind though, they sure did eat a lot, and they can be loud too).

ShepherdofSheep · « **Reply #21 on:** July 03, 2013, 11:55:28 AM »

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Quote from: ShepherdofSheep
Beautiful goats and horse!

Now am I going to have to post ours, too?

Your pup looks quite intelligent.

Thank you so much! I do so enjoy their company.
The horse was a rescue from BLM at 5 months old; She is two and a half now.
The goats were also adopted; The female was orphaned, on formula, and seriously dehydrated when I rescued her (so I found a local herd from which I acquired milk every morning to improve her health). The male had his horns improperly banded and rejected by the previous owner at 8 months old. The pair proved themselves this past December with their first kid. I also keep a flock of chickens (adopted rooster and eight hens), and annually raise pigs (Poland China and Hampshire). I had a pair of Dorper sheep, and their first offspring, but found them a good herd to join so they have moved on (I can't say I really mind though, they sure did eat a lot, and they can be loud too).

Your buck is quite handsome and I love the richness of the phaeomelanin he expresses, especially on his face! If it's anything like how sheep inherit that pigment, it should be expressed quite readily in the offspring.

Were your Dorpers white or the black-headed variety?

momofmany · « **Reply #22 on:** July 03, 2013, 01:06:07 PM »

momofmany · « **Reply #23 on:** July 03, 2013, 01:13:36 PM »

We have a dog, two cats and sort of a horse (10 year old Appie given to dd but we haven't taken possession and don't know if we will be able to swing it) but no pictures uploaded.

For the chicken people. We have Buff Orpingtons, Rhode Island Reds, Barred Rocks, Easter Eggers and one Australorp.

The chick pictured eating clover is a Buff Orpington named Violet. She was about 9 weeks in the picture give or take. They are 22 weeks now and laying.

ShepherdofSheep · « **Reply #24 on:** July 03, 2013, 01:36:59 PM »

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We have a dog, two cats and sort of a horse (10 year old Appie given to dd but we haven't taken possession and don't know if we will be able to swing it) but no pictures uploaded.

For the chicken people. We have Buff Orpingtons, Rhode Island Reds, Barred Rocks, Easter Eggers and one Australorp.

The chick pictured eating clover is a Buff Orpington named Violet. She was about 9 weeks in the picture give or take. They are 22 weeks now and laying.

Your chicken run looks almost exactly like ours. I was going to ask about pullet above- I thought she looked like a Buff.

Here's a Silkie of ours... (quite youthful)

...and our 10h gray gelding Casper. The chick is present because my little sister went on a chick photography spree resulting in dozens of snapshots of chicks in every location she could find.

momofmany · « **Reply #25 on:** July 03, 2013, 03:03:05 PM »

I love silkies, they are so cute and friendly. I would get some except they really aren't heat hardy and I need breeds that at least having a passing chance of surviving a summer here. I can't run fans or misters to my coop. All they have is shade. The Buff Orpingtons are a risk. They often don't make it more than one summer but they are such a nice breed I'm giving it a go.
that isn't our run, that was our brooder. It was moveable and that day it was out in the yard to let them scratch around. Our chicks hatched first week in February so spent their first 6 weeks indoors. Our coop is 4wx8lx4h with an attached run that is 12lx8wx6h. The girls free range our acre most of the day.

I can't find any pictures of Cinnamon to save my life but I'll leave you with this sweet pic taken down the street from our home. They had just stopped at the gas station for drinks.

ShepherdofSheep · « **Reply #26 on:** July 03, 2013, 03:17:11 PM »

Momofmany, that's very cute. :smile:

I love this picture. It's of my miniature donkey jennet Daisy with our mini horse stallion Tonka and my white Finn ewe Maria. It was taken during the drought of last year. No pasture in this picture...fortunately, it is lovely and green now!

momofmany · « **Reply #27 on:** July 03, 2013, 03:32:36 PM »

You can caption that " got hay?"
:ready-to-eat:

ShepherdofSheep · « **Reply #28 on:** July 03, 2013, 03:36:08 PM »

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You can caption that " got hay?"
:ready-to-eat:

Don't even remind me...we had to feed our entire winter supply and purchase more for winter at outrageous prices. It was very difficult to find too. Deo gratias, we've had plentiful precipitation this year and an abundance of that dried grass/legume stuff and pasture that they love so well!

Kazimierz · « **Reply #29 on:** July 03, 2013, 08:35:32 PM »

I enjoy the fact they are all looking at the camera, and indeed thinking to themselves "Ok look reallllll cute and he might give us hay"

But the sheep would reply "Nahhhhhhh. We'll just end up on that Tradlist he belongs to. THEN we can ask him for apples!"