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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • Yeah from my brief reading it seems they can adapt to food salinity by altering their urine concentrations so I don’t think that’s a huge factor, at least it’s not something that comes into play before the other factors begin to harm them. But if you could fix their skin and buoyancy, diet may start to matter. But their prey is also a different salinity than the water it lives in a lot of the time, and sometimes they eat land animals like birds and such ofc.



  • There are types of freshwater river dolphins in the Yangtze (well, one of these species probably is extinct there as of recently but still) and the Amazon, for example. Sea dolphins can survive in freshwater for awhile but their skin isn’t adapted to it, and it will get damaged eventually. That and the difference in buoyancy in sea water vs freshwater leads to the sea dolphins eventually getting exhausted in freshwater.







  • Also a lot of typhoid and stomach flu type pathogens don’t spread butthole to butthole, they spread via the “fecal-oral” route so… that happens in situations like someone took too small a slice and touches your food (or receipt that you ate to prove they liked your gift) without washing their hands properly.





  • Oh yeah not for some feather loss, we never bothered with the jackets either really. I only mention it because we did have to euthanize a few hens due to the severity of the wounds the roosters could inflict - and those boys didn’t even have spurs! But since it’s not your roosters causing it there isn’t much concern it’s going to get to that point.


  • Interesting, are they fed ad lib? We have kept largish flocks of roosters + breeding hens (20-30), but like 8 rooms with groups that size, year after year, and I’ve not seen much of that even when feed is restricted. But my experience with them is in a research setting, and they are a more uniform size/age/breed. It doesn’t do them harm to lose the feathers anyway, as long as their rooster isn’t too aggressive!