🦝︴off-topic

[past bison]

I’m driving past scania factory in like 30 mins lmao

[white quail]

Loggers are pretty cool

I'm more of a motorcycle guy tho

[dusty socket]

I seem to like older bikes, from the 60s and 70s, usually foreign made. Like, I own a 1976 CB550F

[amber wigeon]

I have a bicycle

[obsidian bay]

I have legs.

[rare veldt]

Revolutionary🔥

[amber wigeon]

No need to flex that you can afford technology

[serene radish]

What losers

Learn to float magically

[dusty socket]

i do want to not have a CB550F though, and have something smaller, lighter, with some light off-road capability so I can take it for camping and fishing trips where there may not be actual roads

[lavish marsh]

Not me

It was stolen

[sleek yoke]

@twilit forum sorry for the @ but if I remember right you have bloodborne, if yes could you do me a small favour?

[amber wigeon]

Oh

Like from your house?

[twilit forum]

Yea what’s up?

[sleek yoke]

Can you help me get a weapon from one acc to another?

[twilit forum]

Ah it’s not downloaded at the moment and I’m out of plus lol

If it was smthn offline I could have, sorry bro

[sleek yoke]

Alr, thanks anyways

[twilit forum]

Np dude, hope ya find someone that can help

[lavish marsh]

From my school

[amber wigeon]

Even worse

[lavish marsh]

I took the bus home cause of stomach cramps and when I came back the next day it was gone

:(

[sleek yoke]

I hope too, I wanna do a burial blade run (gehrman's weapon + it's only available in ng+)

[lavish marsh]

But it's okay I have my TOYOTAAAAA

[sleek yoke]

It was the racoons

[lavish marsh]

Sweden doesn't have raccoons 💔

[sleek yoke]

Then it was the squirels

[lavish marsh]

Probably

[craggy plaza]

Average villager trade😭

[amber wigeon]

Vroom vroom

[white quail]

Ooo nice

[dusty socket]

yeah, not a fan of carburetors though

[long ember]

This made me very angry I was on my first try and I hadn't died once

[hoary wharf]

U should've healed-

[long ember]

Shush ur mouth she was basically dead

I was backing away to heal

[hoary wharf]

Why r u so mad just bc I said u should've healed lmao

[long ember]

Im not

[hoary wharf]

What's the point of this then

[long ember]

I can say that and not be mad

[lavish marsh]

Literally my car

[sick briar]

coroller

[amber wigeon]

All sunshine lollipops and rainbows 🥹

[craggy plaza]

Is anyone able to post stuff?

It keeps insta deleting

[past bison]

Samee

Okay now?

@obsidian bay

Nvm could not

Bruh

I just wanna send pic of the man

[obsidian bay]

hemlo?

discord back?

[craggy plaza]

Still cant😭

[manic inlet]

API error overflow, apparently its even obstructing login

took me like 30 minutes to log in

[obsidian bay]

icko

[deft kite]

Craaaaazy

[obsidian bay]

I'm wrapping up the axolotl

putting on its tail frill

[manic inlet]

AXOLOTL??

[obsidian bay]

yes.

I'm crocheting a plushie axolotl.

[manic inlet]

PEAK

[obsidian bay]

I'll DM pics when done

[near compass]

Me was able to log in after i turned on my VPN

Some Channels on other Servers are also Down

[manic inlet]

if pics can send by that time lol

[manic inlet]

pinned messages dont even load

[near compass]

u cant even generate an invite link to discords also ^^

[manic inlet]

lord

[near compass]

wait herte it works

i try on my discord now

i think it will get fixed soon

now more things work again

[manic inlet]

slowly but surely

[dusty socket]

i may be slow but you don't have to call my Shirley

[amber wigeon]

Me too pls

[obsidian bay]

I had to sew the eyes on and I'm still learning that.. but for a first run of the pattern I dont hate it

[amber wigeon]

It looks like fried chicken 😭

[obsidian bay]

yeah

[amber wigeon]

Axolotls and fried chicken are both awesome

Reminds me i have a minecraft world with an axolotl house and pond full of blue axolotls

I always made animal habitats in minecraft

Pz before i could afford pz

[obsidian bay]

hehe

I just got the waterfall perfect in the MC I'm playing with a friend

I'll try to get photos tomorrow when she opens the server again

[dusty socket]

great, now i want fried chicken

[long ember]

I played it on my friends laptop and I dont get it

Also maybe it was just that sandpaper maps r small but I feel like every single map on zoo games are tiny

I like to make big enclosures

[lavish marsh]

Cookie dough axolotl

[craggy plaza]

Confidence cookies

[obsidian bay]

terrible. that poor golem.

😭

[verbal aurora]

Does anyone here own silkie chickens or has experience with them? We have a young one that recently got colour on the skin around the beak so I can see where things start and end easily, so I was looking into how to sex them. Apparently it's hard to, and the chicken is a cross, but dominantly silkie

Can send photos in pet pics :)

We can't keep him if he is a dude so I'm worried, we will wait until he gets his adult plumage coming in anyway to make it easier

[obsidian bay]

haha

yeeeah

we can try, post him up

[obsidian bay]

-# where the chook at

[west bronze]

Hello peoples

[jovial flare]

Seamus

[jovial flare]

This I find funny

The sandals are throwing me off

[jovial flare]

The first kill you absolutely whiffed on second you got lucky 3rd I felt a little proud 4th you felt flow state

[jovial flare]

Okay then

You already know I’m a judgemental bastard but I put too much of my life into r6

I hate that game

With every inch of my being

[mossy badge]

I love hating r6

Especially because of my tachanka ace

[jovial flare]

I quit playing it probably 2 years ago maybe 1.5

[jovial flare]

You gotta get all 5 for an ace

[mossy badge]

I like to constantly quit so I'm always rusty

[jovial flare]

I played everyday for 7 years

I was the 100,000 best player at one point

And got down to I think 50k

Which out of 30 million people not bad

There’s I think more registered but not many active

[mossy badge]

I'm the number 1 ranked player if you get rid of everyone else

And if I played ranked

[jovial flare]

Don’t worry about ranked just enjoy the game ranked is a load of crap anyways

[mossy badge]

I havent touched it even once lol

[jovial flare]

It has nothing to do with the individual skill of the player but rather the team as a whole which is dumb

I can’t send my ace

Because it’s too long lmao

Too long being 44 seconds

Apparently that’s a Long time

I can’t even last 30

😂

[mossy badge]

Mine was 87 seconds😭

[jovial flare]

Got it

Hehehe

This is an old clip but I do like it

There team was dumb and they all pushed the same area

I made one dude rage quit because he thought I was cheating

Mans told me I had auto aim

Nah

[mossy badge]

I made someone ragequit with the tachanka fire things

[jovial flare]

Yeah I’d hate you too

Tachanka mains are p words

I don’t like your kind

[mossy badge]

Tachanka is awesome

Now I main pulse on defense

[jovial flare]

Prime maestro was better

[jovial flare]

You remind me of my friend Dan

For defense my mains kinda fluctuate but I mainly play doc, azumi, and mozzi

And vigil

If I ever need to really sweat I pull out lesion or doc but I don’t like to use them all the time

Acog with extended barrel is too good and lesions just sublime

[mossy badge]

If i cant be pulse, I usually play mozzarella

And then I main osa on offense

[jovial flare]

I also main osa

OSA, ram, and ace along with buck

I don’t play ying because she’s mean

[mossy badge]

I use osa, buck, and fuse sometimes

[jovial flare]

Fuse is good

[mossy badge]

I hate ying players sometimes

[jovial flare]

Her rifle has low recoil and high capacity so she’s really good at suppressing fire and then just making you see the sun

[mossy badge]

Great for entry too, sonce you can break the window barricades so easy

+frags so you can easily rush in

[jovial flare]

Another funny one

Keep in mind

I am

13?-14?

I was young here because i was with my buddy rody

Omg I was 13

[long ember]

I saw a ghost

It was the ghost of anton chigurh.

[jovial flare]

I forgot they gave him frags

[west bronze]

It’s rare to see a non brainrot game

Brainrot games genuinely pmo

[hallow pulsar]

First time prepping a fossil!! Turns out to be a plant fossil possibly Lauraceae! This was so exciting, its also quite rare since where I found it there's mostly only shell fossils

Took about 2-3 hours

[tropic thunder]

Jeez its windy

[tropic thunder]

Slipknot in the garage today

[rare veldt]

Lmao

[west bronze]

my name is mud (someone pls get the reference 🙏)

[amber wigeon]

Wet dirt?

[past bison]

So I showed my bf a pic of prague ratter I got in an ad and was like ”look how small this dog is”

And now he wants one 💀

[lavish marsh]

I don't blame him

[past bison]

Tbh same

They’re cute af

And very portable sized

Travel sized for your convenience

Wouldn’t mind this ngl

[lavish marsh]

It's like a mini pinscher with naturally erect ears

[past bison]

Yep

And less insane

[lavish marsh]

Whaaat

[past bison]

Minpins want to run four marathons per day and then do some extra activities after

[lavish marsh]

My brother had a medium pinscher and they're sane trust

[past bison]

Lmaoo

[lavish marsh]

Now he wants a dobie

Dobermann + Kelpie combo

And I'm hopefully getting a German Shepherd but we'll see if I end up with a mal instead

I hope not for my own sanity

And when I retire I want to have dachshunds

Normal sized

[past bison]

Oh lawd

Not a moment of peace lmao

[past bison]

So valid

[lavish marsh]

I hope he can manage lol

[past bison]

Mals are clinically insane from the moment they exit the womb

[lavish marsh]

Have you seen the mal puppy yoga vids

[past bison]

I have xD

[lavish marsh]

😭

[past bison]

I want a tiny dog that’s easy to care for, doesn’t shed much and trainable

[lavish marsh]

My vote

[past bison]

Prague ratter would fit that tbh, and bonus points for being small enough to get on a plane so if we go a vacation abroad I can bring the tiny creature along

[past bison]

I cannot do with the drool

Wait no

Not a golden retriever

[lavish marsh]

Do they drool

[past bison]

Tax

No drool lmao

[past bison]

It’d be too hard to find a longhaired mini breeder who tests for the IVDD gene

[lavish marsh]

Chillest little guy but rabid during puppyhood

[past bison]

I’m too picky lmaoo

[past bison]

Tbh most puppies are

[lavish marsh]

True

[lavish marsh]

Ah you want tiny tiny dog?

[past bison]

My mittelspitz was a menace for 6 months straight

[past bison]

Yepp

[lavish marsh]

I've seen chi's do bitework

We have two at work and they're the nicest dogs ever

[past bison]

I like some chis but the problem is finding a dog that looks nice

The shape of some of their faces/heads give me heebie jeebies

[lavish marsh]

Pfff

[past bison]

I like the pincher type head more than apple shaped

Also one pro of a short hair dog

I can put clothes on it

[lavish marsh]

Ah and then it would be out of standatd

[past bison]

Yep

[lavish marsh]

Omg

[past bison]

Also some of them have their ears set super low and eyes halfway out the skull

Immediately no

[lavish marsh]

Get an italian greyhound

😭

[past bison]

Omg I love iggies

They so shrimpy

[lavish marsh]

And they're made for clothes

[past bison]

Exactly

Fashon

[lavish marsh]

Trying to think of small breeds at work

Hmm

No papillons they're insane

[past bison]

I like them a lot too

Lmao

[lavish marsh]

The one at work eats poop

[past bison]

Omg 💀

Oh also one reason for small dog is that we have a small cat

[lavish marsh]

Ahh

[past bison]

Nami is like 3,5kg

[lavish marsh]

Apparently toy poodles are good with cats

[past bison]

I’m not taking the risk of them playing and accidentally killing my baby

[lavish marsh]

But grooming

[past bison]

Oo yes I’ve looked into mini poodles

[past bison]

I love dog grooming

[lavish marsh]

Then that's awesome

[past bison]

🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

[lavish marsh]

I love seeing them little ones in a big show cut 😭

And LEG WARMERS

[past bison]

I’d love to get a little trim table and groom the dog myself

[past bison]

Omg yes

[lavish marsh]

My coworker has a standard I love him so much

[past bison]

I’d keep it short all summer tho but that’d hinder a possible show career

I used to show my kleinspitz

She loved it

[lavish marsh]

Shows seem so fun

Shame shelties aren't smaller they're one of my favs

[past bison]

It’s so fun if the dog likes it

My mittelspitz wanted nothing less than to stand on the table so she did not do shows

[lavish marsh]

There's a mittelspitz at work

Fun breed

[past bison]

Klein I could throw on the table, tell her to stand and she’d be like a little statue

[lavish marsh]

Hehe

[past bison]

Mine bit me for the first 6 months like a rabid shark

Then she was chill

[lavish marsh]

It's a spitz

[past bison]

But byb and stressed about everything

[lavish marsh]

Awh

[past bison]

The klein never bit me even when teething lmao

[lavish marsh]

Was the Klein wellbred?

[past bison]

Yep

[lavish marsh]

Could explain it

[past bison]

But died at under two years old 💀

[lavish marsh]

WhAT

Why

[past bison]

Yeppp

[past bison]

Sudden seizure that animal hospital vets could not get to stop

[lavish marsh]

:(

[past bison]

It lasted too long and they said she’d have extensive brain damage even if they somehow could end it

I lived almost next to the vet so I got there fast but they tried without success

I should have sent her to get necropsy done but I was mega broke back then

[amber wigeon]

Put together the isopod order

[lavish marsh]

I'm sorry :(

[past bison]

It was a roughhh time but she would have had to be euthed after a while anyway

She was eh tbh not well well bred

[lavish marsh]

:(

[past bison]

Medium bred

[lavish marsh]

Pff

Beckis breeder did not have all the signs of a good breeder but she's very wellbred

[past bison]

She had bad knees on both sides, they were both luxating and I knew I could not keep her resting well enough to heal from a surgery to fix them

[lavish marsh]

Like we picked the puppy, it wasn't matched with us

[past bison]

Luckyyy

[lavish marsh]

Legs are difficult cause you use them all the time

[past bison]

Fr

And she was crazy

If she was not asleep she was running

[lavish marsh]

She looks a little silly compared to other Drevers, like a more lively expression in the face

[past bison]

Omg I love this pic lmaoo

[lavish marsh]

The silliest face

[past bison]

Aada the menace

[past bison]

Very expressive

[lavish marsh]

Ahhhhh so cute

[past bison]

My next dog’s parents gotta be 0/0 on the knees for generations bc I cannot have a bad patella dog againn

[obsidian bay]

Chiming in Hella late because doing dishes and I saw mini poodle

Poodles are neurotic unless they have job. Please REALLY consider what they could have as a "task" otherwise you have anxious fried chicken as a pet

[past bison]

Not the anxious fried chicken lmaoo

But yes I love training my pets and the dog would have a ”job” as my companion on hikes, learning stuff and possibly hoopers

Ofc also training for dog shows because I teach my dogs to stack on command and walk on the show leash well

[lavish marsh]

I think I'll be required to do bitework with my future dog to be able to bring it to work so that's a good outlet

Not a fan of the sport but if it must be done then so be it

[past bison]

Also canicross and running with a bike but well that I wouldn’t do with prague ratter, for that I’d get a little bike basket to join me

Oh also I pick berries and mushrooms so they dog would join me there and be trained to have good recall so that she can run in the forest off leash

[amber wigeon]

I just saw a bunch of swifts fly by they look like flapping boomerangs

They make a really high pitch screaming call as well i love them 😭

[manic inlet]

flapperang

[amber wigeon]

Have you ever seen a swift? I know a few species are native to the us

[obsidian bay]

Yes :3

[amber wigeon]

Tyk you might even be able to see the biggest swift in europe

The alpine swift

I’ve seen one ever

In the sierra de ronda in spain

Same place where the ronda ibex is from believe it or not

I thought it was a falcon at first bc they are so big

I love birds especially weird ones

[obsidian bay]

Go to America, strictly to see roadrunners and hummingbirds

[amber wigeon]

cresty boi and long boi

[manic inlet]

one or two over the years

mostly seen hawks and eagles tho

owls on occasion

[amber wigeon]

I’ve seen ruby throated hummingbirds in north carolina

Never went west enough for roadrunners

[obsidian bay]

There are so many more hummingbirds to see

[lavish marsh]

ALSO can't you like train a dog to find sheds

Deer sheds

I wanna do that

[obsidian bay]

Honestly they are like... prehistoric compared to others haha

[obsidian bay]

Yes

[amber wigeon]

Are you planning to build a house out of deer sheds

[obsidian bay]

Yes you can

[lavish marsh]

Wdym I barely have any

[amber wigeon]

That’s why you need more

[lavish marsh]

You're implying I'm gonna have enough to make a house

[amber wigeon]

Eventually

[lavish marsh]

Looks at the 15 sheds in my room

[amber wigeon]

It could be a hamster house

[amber wigeon]

I reckon they run how small theropods would have ran

[lavish marsh]

Anyone knows pou

Graduation gift for my cousin lmao

[amber wigeon]

ITS THE SAD SHOWER GUY

https://tenor.com/view/sadly-pou-toy-sadly-pou-toys-pou-pou-toys-toys-gif-16878313337569838579

[lavish marsh]

It's pou

https://tenor.com/view/shiseidored-pou-gif-13221666817185724082

[amber wigeon]

Can i have a pou 🥹

[lavish marsh]

Buy one

I got it on vinted

[amber wigeon]

15 euros….

[lavish marsh]

€3

[amber wigeon]

Idc it’s worth going in debt for

It’s been sunny all week and when school starts again it’ll rain for the whole week

[lavish marsh]

Haha

[amber wigeon]

I need to build a bike with a roof

[lavish marsh]

We just put raincoats on all the dogs

[amber wigeon]

I have a waterproof jacket but the hood always gets blown off my head

So i get a wet head regardless

I have garlic butter and bread ima make garlic bread

In southern europe they sell garlic bread at the lidl bakery

[lavish marsh]

I'm getting pringles

[amber wigeon]

Nice

[lavish marsh]

Garlic bread sounds real good

[amber wigeon]

It is

Delicious even

[lavish marsh]

Yumm

I wish I could say my garlic bread motto but it's in swedish

[amber wigeon]

There are baby birds in my front yard

Unfortunately they are of the kind who’s name is auto modded here

Cyanistes caeruleus

[past bison]

Now I need to know

[lavish marsh]

Ingen vitlöksmök utan vitmöksbröd

[past bison]

xD

Omg now I wanna make garlic butter

We bought chicken kebab from costco and omg it was so good

[lavish marsh]

Costco???

Also that does look good

[past bison]

Yep, in stockholm

[lavish marsh]

Whaaat

[past bison]

Yepp

They have some good stuff like butter chicken sauce in a jar

[lavish marsh]

[past bison]

The best butter chicken I’ve tried

And soda is pretty cheap often

[lavish marsh]

Is there like a restaurant or

[past bison]

Yeah kinda you can get some foods like pizza and hotdogs there

The cheese pizza slaps

[amber wigeon]

Why do american chains just randomly have locations in european countries 😭

I always thought costco was a purely american thing

[obsidian bay]

Yes well global expansion or whatever

Costco pizza, costco weenies 😭

They have no business being as tasty as they are

[amber wigeon]

Fun fact, wendy’s can’t settle in the netherlands, maybe even europe because a dutch snack bar is also called wendy’s 😭

[past bison]

No clue xD

[past bison]

The weenies are wayy too big

I like skinnier hotdogs xD

[amber wigeon]

I like the ikea hot dogs

[brazen scarab]

aint that temu 2.0

[amber wigeon]

No 😭

It’s for second hand stuff

[obsidian bay]

They are

[brazen scarab]

same thing

[obsidian bay]

the pizza slices are also sizeable

[past bison]

Sameeee

[obsidian bay]

Less like Temu, more like safe Caigslist

[amber wigeon]

Costco pizza looks soooo good

The rotisserie chickens as well

I love rotisserie chicken

[brazen scarab]

do you not have costco

[obsidian bay]

It's sTUPID how good it actually is

[obsidian bay]

It's not prevalent here in Europe goober

[amber wigeon]

No it’s very limited in europe

[brazen scarab]

💔

tragic

[amber wigeon]

Europe has like 10% at best of the american stuff

[brazen scarab]

would be nice if there wasnt an idiot in office rn

[amber wigeon]

Uk probably has the most american influence of all european countries

[brazen scarab]

ironic if you think about it

[amber wigeon]

They speak english that helps 😭

[brazen scarab]

my local costcos food court has been under remodeling for like 4 months

so i couldnt even get food there if i wanted to

[amber wigeon]

Getting any food in supermarkets other then bread here would be seen as insane

[lavish marsh]

Some people buy from shein and temu and sell on there

But I'm not buying from it first hand so idc

[heavy breach]

Omg I’m finally moved and can play my Xbox 🫪

[obsidian bay]

Yaaay

When do we get the setup tour now that you've got new digs

[sick briar]

Ive never been to Costco before but i've seen the food from Costco in person and like, is all American portions like that 🥀🥀

I'm used to Australia sizes where stuff is normal then I see a cup from Costco and it's like 2.5X the size of a large from normal fastfood places

[brazen scarab]

costco stands out because its both cheap and you get a LOT of food for your dollar compared to most other places

yes you could order portions that big at any other place but most of the time the cost is way higher and its impractical

[sick briar]

so portions like that do exist in America nornally

hmm

[pulsar oak]

applause
“What a show!”

[sick briar]

Medved
atv
so when is he gonna get launched in the air

damn he didn't do the launch glitch on the ice

womp 🥀

I was expecting to see bro sail through the air

[crisp whale]

pretttyyy

[sick briar]

shiboyugi (anime) time

it's got an interesting art style since the wider shots they shift to doing more abstract lineless art

[sick briar]

But then it also has the standard more complex lineart

[lavish marsh]

It's Saturdayyyy

[amber wigeon]

Delicious candle

[lavish marsh]

It's from rituals and smells soooo good

[amber wigeon]

Candles either smell crazy good or horrible

[lavish marsh]

I'm a scented candle fanatic

[amber wigeon]

My mom as well 😭

Oh shoot

It’s mothers day tomorrow

[lavish marsh]

Not if she buys stinky candles

[amber wigeon]

I forgot

I’m doomed

[lavish marsh]

Move to Sweden then it's the 31st

[amber wigeon]

It’ll also cost me at least 310,000 euros

[lavish marsh]

Is your mom not worth 310,000 euros

[amber wigeon]

She probably is but is she worth a lot of debt?

[lavish marsh]

Yummmmm

[amber wigeon]

Cheese cracker

[past bison]

Oooo is the truffle white good?

[lavish marsh]

Yessss so good

[past bison]

I wishh I have just a few bc I can’t risk it with Nami

[past bison]

Oo gotta try it out fr

[lavish marsh]

My aunt's fav as well

[lavish marsh]

I get it

[past bison]

I do have an oil lamp tho in the bathroom so I can shower in non artificial light

[lavish marsh]

I have a disco lamp in my shower

And radio

It's such a vibe

[past bison]

Bought from a little store near Göteborg

[lavish marsh]

TEH ORCJID

MY DREAM

[past bison]

I need a speaker in the shower asap

[past bison]

It fits there so good xD

[lavish marsh]

Pls I need one so bad but every time I'm at Eko I go nah too expensive

[past bison]

It’s on top of a high ish shelf so it lights up the bathroom nicely because I hatee the bright light

[past bison]

Lmaoo I get it fr

[lavish marsh]

Cozy shower

[past bison]

I also have the pink roses, wildflowers and a couple sunflowers

[past bison]

Yepp

[lavish marsh]

That sounds so awesome

[past bison]

Helps my shower motivation by 500%

[lavish marsh]

Shower with some candles and a bunch of lego flowers

[past bison]

I hate the transition from dry to wet so I have to motivate myself somehow

[past bison]

Superior vibes

[lavish marsh]

Meanwhile I party

Singing along to star fm

[long ember]

Fart

67

Tung tung tung sahur

67

[olive bloom]

HOW DO YOU get into the vc

[obsidian bay]

You need to chat in the text channels a little bit - the bot auto applies the roles once people achieve them.

Unfortunately, its how we stop a LOT of the spam/scam bots - but also you can achieve VC access within a few (like 2??) hours of steady chatting

[full plank]

How to Unlock Permissions

• To unlock the ability to post pictures, react, join a voice chat, and use the forums you've gotta talk A LITTLE BIT.
• To unlock the ability to embed, screenshare, change your nickname, and use gifs you've gotta talk A LOT.
• To unlock the ability to use external emoji and stickers, you've gotta talk SO MUCH.

[exotic torrent]

so were can i start doing it so i can join voice chat

[obsidian bay]

Literally any of the text channels that you can type in. Just participate in talking with people 🙂

[exotic torrent]

thanks

[tropic thunder]

Me when the

Hi guys

I hope my cars engine doesn't blow up tomorrow

[verbal aurora]

Sorry I got an answer from some other people who reckon he's a dude if his comb keeps growing, I'll send a photo of him anyway :) we won't be able to keep him if he is male so I told him to lock in and be a woman

[twilit forum]

Just gonna put it out there, I agree w whoever said that but sometimes ladies just have extra long combs
We had about 3 in our last flock of 8 who had particularly long combs and all
They all laid eggs though lol

You’ll definitely be able to tell as they grow up

Also, even more fun… hens can grow spurs lol

[white quail]

Boys, I got to fly in and pilot for a lil bit, a Cessna 172

[pulsar oak]

Reindeer G1 wheeeennn??? 😭 😭

[cobalt tangle]

Frrr

It would probably troll 💀

What’s max for dime fallow

[west bronze]

big choice ik but im happy with it sold my house and everything I own except for my car and my phone

its travel time

[acoustic birch]

[sly palm]

What’s happening irl boys I mean shiiii

[manic inlet]

@rare veldt but yeah lots of modern clothing and other items use furs still

[rare veldt]

Like I know that market prices for fur is down according to the people that I watch but maybe that’s just their area but yeah it does make sense that they’re still used as they do provide more warmth than the synthetic stuff if I am correct

[manic inlet]

theres one that still pulls a good price but is always variable

and that is bobcats

the ones with a lot of white on the stomach and very well defined black spots within the white

STUPID money

[rare veldt]

Not really surprising they have beautiful coats

And they’re rare as it goes

[manic inlet]

at the Fallon, Nevada, auction for last year's furs guys were getting 1200 to 2400 dollars per cat

[manic inlet]

yeah, and its not for lack of cats, its just cause theyre difficult to trap

[rare veldt]

Guys can trap hundreds of raccoons in a year but maybe only get a few bobcats

[manic inlet]

even where theyre thick theyre clever AND cautious

[rare veldt]

My good goodness😂

[manic inlet]

coyotes tend to get caught up from being curious but can learn well enough too

[rare veldt]

Stupid money indeed

[manic inlet]

now imagine say youre in Colorado

you trap 20 cats

and get all 20 sealed

[rare veldt]

Damn

[manic inlet]

say 10 are medium quality, about 950 bucks

5 are med-high about 1400

and 5 are premium about 2200

[rare veldt]

Man that is amazing

[manic inlet]

thatd be 27,500 dollars, which can be half a year's income

[rare veldt]

And once the set up is paid for I believe it is pretty cheap to run 🤔

[manic inlet]

the main issue is investment up to that point, since you usually need a few thousand in equipment plus expenses in gas and tired and outdoors equipment and time to set up a line deep enough and long enough and hidden enough

[manic inlet]

yep, the only issue really is startup

[rare veldt]

Ja that is crazy numbers and if that’s the cats you catch you probably not only catching cats

[rare veldt]

As with most things😂

[manic inlet]

those same foothold traps can take hundreds of coyotes in a year

and even with an average price across all times of year of like 18 dollars

if you trap and tan 400 coyotes in a year

thats still another 7 grand

and thats assuming lower prices

[rare veldt]

Exactly

[manic inlet]

lots of guys wait til theyre in winter coat, which is whats preferred for parka hood liners and other clothing uses

and they can be 25 to 45 dollars

[rare veldt]

And if you also get skunk, raccoon, or other things like them just additional money

[manic inlet]

so between yotes and bobcats alone thats upwards of 35,000 to 40,000 dollars in a single winter season

of course this is dependent on trapping out west

[rare veldt]

Damn that’s some good money that is

[manic inlet]

eastern coyotes are known to have less desirable patterns, as are bobcats

[rare veldt]

Yeah

I heard KG talking about it in one of his videos a while back

[manic inlet]

of course theres always controversy around trapping and fur

but at the end of the day, most of the trapped animals are potential nuisances

and many trappers get most of say theyr coyote or muskrat haul

either in the employ of a farm or a city

[rare veldt]

Fr you gotta keep them numbers down

[manic inlet]

taking out overpopulated urban margin animals

[manic inlet]

muskrats are the biggest threat with how they bore out roadside banks by canals as well as levies

[rare veldt]

Fr

[manic inlet]

like if we were to say ban hunting them overnight

itd be about 8 to 14 months

and then wed have trillions in infrastructural damage

[rare veldt]

Pretty much😭

The little things drill hella holes

[manic inlet]

tiny excavators

[rare veldt]

Not only tons of money going into damages but also flooding

[manic inlet]

i respect their grind and all but damn

[rare veldt]

Frfr

[manic inlet]

dig holes that arent in major flood infrastructure please

[rare veldt]

Lmao

[manic inlet]

some guys who trap also eat as much as they can of their catch within reason

[rare veldt]

Yep

[manic inlet]

yknow like many of these urban and semiurban populations have odd runoff, trash, etc to deal with and have diseases less common in wild animals

[rare veldt]

If I was trapping something that tasted good I would too

[manic inlet]

think worms in any predator

but a lot of em cook up well

[rare veldt]

And if I didn’t have the chance of giving me tons of different issues lol

[manic inlet]

bobcats are almost like pork

like the most common description ive heard is tender, lean, sweet pork with a hint of venison

[manic inlet]

there is a cautionary tale about yotes tho

they are

[rare veldt]

Yeah if I was trapping in the middle of a forest on my own property where I knew they were in reasonable health I would eat them but trapping in a urban area I would not touch them

[manic inlet]

the cockroach of mammals

they will survive things

that they have no right to

as a species

but do anyways just cause theyre that tough

so yknow the yipyapping thing they do all night?

thats a census

if too many voices go missing

they all go have more kids

[rare veldt]

Damn

[manic inlet]

this exact response likely evolved to combat being endlessly bullied by every carnivore larger then them on the continent

and doubly, younger mating pairs not only live at a higher pop density with smaller territories than older ones but also have significantly larger litters

[rare veldt]

Yeah when you’re getting murdered by wolves just for existing pretty understandable💀

[manic inlet]

like on the order of 2-3x larger

so you can have a property with say 3 older mating pairs

they each have a 3 or 4 pup litter per year

say hypothetically you trap and shoot all of them and their dispersal offspring

for about 6 months to a year there wont be any yotes

rodent, lizard, small bird, and rabbit pop will go nuts

then a bunch of young guns move in

and now youve got 7 or 8 pairs

each having 6 to 10 pups per litter

and the uptick in food means more of them surviv proportionally

[rare veldt]

This is why deer management in the UK we try to shoot the young ones not the old ones as the old ones control the population better and push out the young ones

But yeah that’s why you gotta trap the damn things otherwise they’re over population goes crazy

[manic inlet]

meanwhile coyotes just sort of

are like a hydra

[rare veldt]

It’s like the foxes in my area

[manic inlet]

you shoot one then there's 5 more

[rare veldt]

Infinite coyote source 😭

[manic inlet]

this is unironically why their prices are a third what they were

theres SO MANY

[rare veldt]

Yeah it’s understandable

[manic inlet]

its also why theyre so commonly used as liners for jackets and other things

cause like

[rare veldt]

They’re so easy to hunt and trap because they just infinite generate themselves😭

[manic inlet]

its there

and its

the one animal

and I cannot emphasize this enough

THE ONLY ANIMAL

whose range and population

INCREASED BY SEVERAL ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE

because of mass culling

[rare veldt]

Lmao🤣

[manic inlet]

in a healthy ecosystem the excess yotes get checked by starvation, exposure due to lack of available dens, and being endlessly murdered by the menagerie of death machines on the continent

[rare veldt]

Wild boar have the same thing actually same with wild pigs

[manic inlet]

but where there are few bears, mtnlions, and ESPECIALLY wolves, they just go wild

[rare veldt]

If you kill the mother the young females just go breed instead of sticking around with a mother

[manic inlet]

yeah, if theyre under predatory distress older sows also go into heat more rapidly

its partly why lots of the texas sounders can see 5 to 7 litters per year per sow

[rare veldt]

Exactly in a healthy system the environment looks after itself

[manic inlet]

and when each litter is 12 to 20 piglets

and each sounder has 8 to 20 sows

for an average of 14

and theres say 20 sounders that size in any given 1,000 acre area

the logarithmic growth is ASTOUNDING

[rare veldt]

Well that explains why there’s like 3 million or something plus hogs in Texas alone💀

[manic inlet]

I mean like lemme use those numbers for a 5 year example

20 sounders, 14 sows each, average of 16 piglets per litter per sow at 6 litters per year

just those original sows

not any female offspring that start breeding at 6 to 8 mos old

is 280 sows

having 4,480 piglets EVERY LITTER CYCLE

and doing that 6x a year for 26,880 pigs

[rare veldt]

Yep absolute insanity

[manic inlet]

now juvenile mortality is rather high from violence from other pigs and predation but its still only about 45 to 65%

[manic inlet]

so theres still at least 12,000 new pigs JUST from those original 280 sows

[rare veldt]

My good goodness

[manic inlet]

and thats one year

so say we assume half survive to breeding age

13,440 pigs

per year

thats 67,200 in 5 years, again just from the original 280

this is why they were domesticated as a meat animal

the turnaround compared to cattle is insane, especially compared to land use and feed requirements

[rare veldt]

That and the fact that when you take them on a ship they don’t lose the ability to breed for like two years after coming back to land lol

[manic inlet]

pigs broke into the modern meat market by being tough adaptable bastards

[rare veldt]

That’s why like all the islands that the Spanish visited have pigs

The Spanish were like put the bacon everywhere

[manic inlet]

chickens did it after we selectively bred the cornish cross and got a boiler bird that reaches harvestable size at 8 weeks old

[rare veldt]

Frfr it’s such a good source of protein and they basically look after themselves

[manic inlet]

and if kept properly they ironically like very high quality forage

[rare veldt]

Yep

[manic inlet]

which means ranged and pastured pigs are VERY good eating

[rare veldt]

Exactly

They’re very good at finding the good stuff🤣

[manic inlet]

fallen acorns, walnuts, and high protein ground cover like clover are their favorite iirc

[rare veldt]

They put on good weight and good fat they taste amazing and they don’t have that coloured look in the meat that farm pigs have

[manic inlet]

along with high nutrient roots

[rare veldt]

Exactly spot on

The things are machine

[manic inlet]

but they will eat just about anything, although they err higher quality if given a choice

like

if you were to take random household food waste

shove it in a bin

[rare veldt]

Smart very high breeding rate decent survivability for offspring and an amazing ability to find food

[manic inlet]

and put it next to a bin of clover, truffles, walnuts, and acorns

the pigs are gonna eat the clover bin

down to the damn bottom

and then after theyre done with that eat the orange peels and the like

[rare veldt]

Frfr

And some of them will eat meat

And in some places you can literally see essentially what are actual wild boar breeding themselves back into existence out of the feral pigs

[manic inlet]

my fav fact is how many herbivores just do this

like, pigs are known omnivores so it tracks for them

[rare veldt]

Yeah that’s what I keep telling people

Cows will just straight up eat baby birds if they find them

[manic inlet]

eggs, especially groundbird eggs, are free food for a 200lb foraging mammal

but everything with hooves will eat baby birds

or fallen eggs

[rare veldt]

Fr

[manic inlet]

nestling birds are the twix bars of nature bro

[rare veldt]

I literally watched a documentary about small antelope in Africa eating quail

[rare veldt]

Frfr packed with protein and calcium from the bones

Along with a few other nutrients

[manic inlet]

cows in australia been eating snakes

nonvenomous ones but still

[past bison]

Protein

[rare veldt]

I saw that it is crazy XD

[manic inlet]

iirc its in areas with poor calcium content

and the cows are like

aware that bones contain the stuff they need

and they know living things have bones

so if they can munch it

it gets munched

[rare veldt]

Bro the farmers have to burn the camel carcasses after a cull because the cows chew on and lick the carcasses💀

[manic inlet]

i feel like, the whole herd doing this compulsively

might

[rare veldt]

Same with the wild horses

[manic inlet]

just be an indication

that your graze isnt quite good enough

[rare veldt]

I mean they are literally in the middle of the desert

[manic inlet]

and the cows might need a bit more sulfur and calcium lmao

[rare veldt]

At least the guy I watch

[manic inlet]

"man I got all this ranchland for these cows"

"we got prairie on this ranchland"

[rare veldt]

Frfr lmao

[manic inlet]

"ehhh kinda, but we mainly got something else"

"whats that?"

"sand"

[rare veldt]

Lmfao🤣

It’s true😂

[manic inlet]

worst part is is that a lot of it is shrubs and scrubland

which

cows dont eat cause theyre not browsers

so like 75% of the edible plant biomass

[rare veldt]

I have no clue what else they eat😭

[manic inlet]

they dont eat cause they dont like it

[manic inlet]

grasses

[rare veldt]

Because like there is no grass

[manic inlet]

now thats a WIDE expanse mind you

because that includes like

sedges

grasslike things

but at the same time they can also be dumb and munch on stuff they shouldnt

like milkweed

and then die

theres many brose style plants on the US prairie that can give cattle colic

but pronghorn eat them

so many ranchers welcome pronghorn on their ranging lands cause their presence means the toxic stuff doesnt murder their cows

still funny to me that a random giraffe thing cosplaying as an antelope saw actual poison that everything else either only ate in desperation or couldnt eat at all and just said

https://tenor.com/view/gordon-ramsay-finally-good-food-chef-gif-11616250

[rare veldt]

Honestly understandable if you don’t have to pay for something to be gotten rid of and also have a decent source of meat just chilling around on your property honestly I would welcome it too

[manic inlet]

theyre also smaller and much less likely to annihilate any fencing you have like deer do

[rare veldt]

Frfr such strange animals

[rare veldt]

Don’t they just jump over the fence? Or are they the one that has terrible ability to jump?

Because I remember there’s something on the planes that’s like them that is terrible at jumping

[manic inlet]

they can jump but they hate doing it and can injure themselves rather easliy doing it

so they try to crawl under

[rare veldt]

So they’re like red deer

[manic inlet]

now when all the fencing is crosshatched razorwire and barbed wire with a bottom wire only 5 to 7 inches off the ground

thats an issue

in a lot of areas theres been increasing calls to either remove fencing from public gvt land entirely or, in areas where thats refused + on private properties just

modify the fences so the bottom wire is smooth

[rare veldt]

I’m not even kidding they can jump an 8 foot fence I’m pretty sure if I remember correctly and they won’t do it they will literally walk for miles around the fence trying to find a way under instead of going over it😭

[manic inlet]

and placed 18 to 20 inches up so they can crawl under

[manic inlet]

oh yeah theyve got a crazy verical for an animalt hats like barelt 34 inches at the shoulder

they just refuse to use it

[rare veldt]

Lmao

[rare veldt]

That seems fair enough

[manic inlet]

also they love having line of sight

[rare veldt]

I mean the things don’t do anything negative it would seem to the farms and people so let them come and go as they please

[manic inlet]

so they literally avoid underpasses

they hate them

with every fiber of their being

it restricts their sight? not an option for travel

so instead they need overpasses

but where those are present man they flock to em

literally decrease regional vehicle collisions with pronghorn wherever overpasses are installed by a minimum of 95%

[amber wigeon]

Ello honse

[manic inlet]

sup happie

im monologuing

giving animnal lore

[rare veldt]

Damn that is actually crazy

And very good

[amber wigeon]

Blessing us with some knowledge

[serene radish]

I hear pronghorn talk

[manic inlet]

yeah, although sometimes they can get into feed cause well

its a wild animal

you find free food just sitting there

youre gonna eat it

[rare veldt]

Yeah that’s fair enough and to be expected honestly

[manic inlet]

the superior not-an-antelope

[manic inlet]

much less intrusive than deer tho

especially elk and moose

and then there's bears

[rare veldt]

Lmao

[manic inlet]

which commit actual felonies and break and enter to get the food

[amber wigeon]

If bears evolve a bit more we’ll be having armed food robberies

[manic inlet]

i mean youve seen the claws

theyre already armed 😭

[amber wigeon]

I’m kinda obsessed with bears

[serene radish]

Black bears are pretty much giant raccoons

[amber wigeon]

Purely bc they’re so weird

[serene radish]

The humble sun bear

[amber wigeon]

I’ve seen every species as far as i’m aware

[rare veldt]

Real they do be crazy but I mean in all fairness when you weigh as much as they do most things if not reinforced look like an easy meal

[amber wigeon]

Not subspecies ofc

Who the hell has a gobi bear

[manic inlet]

when youre a 450lb walking weapon its pretty easy to just go

"ima take that"

to all the food you find

[manic inlet]

mongolia probably ngl

[rare veldt]

Fr lmao😂

[amber wigeon]

I wanna visit mongolia

[manic inlet]

very cool wildlife

[rare veldt]

Fr some very interesting stuff

[manic inlet]

you hear the good news about their saiga antelope herd?

and the saiga as a whole?

[amber wigeon]

It has hazel grouse despite being 95% treeless 😭

[rare veldt]

I feel like I should know that but can you explain

[amber wigeon]

No what progress was there

[rare veldt]

I might be able to recognise them by site

Not by name

[manic inlet]

yknow the funky antelope with the huge nose

thats them

[rare veldt]

Oh yeah them

[manic inlet]

Mongolia's saiga herd doubled in size in a year

[amber wigeon]

Wow

[manic inlet]

from 14,000 to 28,000 adult animals

[serene radish]

The dust filter nose

[manic inlet]

and saiga overall have recovered immensely

[rare veldt]

Honestly I would love to hunt them although I do know they’re critically endangered I think

[amber wigeon]

Sooooooo

[manic inlet]

the russian herd went from 4,000 to 40,000 animals in 12 years

[amber wigeon]

I can have one?

[manic inlet]

and the Kazakhstan herd?

more like horde

theres 4.1 million animals now

[rare veldt]

Oh

[serene radish]

The flood gates have opened

[rare veldt]

I guess they no longer have the under population problem

[manic inlet]

and that

is AFTER

[rare veldt]

Well I be maybe I will get to hunt one💀

[manic inlet]

200,000 animals were documented killed by legal hunting and culling

[amber wigeon]

Imagine getting trampled to death by a bunch of fricking walking vaccuum cleaners 😭

[serene radish]

Lowk not the worst way to go

[manic inlet]

it turns out when theyre not being endlessly hunted down and having their environment torn away for industrial projects, they absolutely dominate whats left of the stepps

[rare veldt]

Lmao frfr that would be really weird

[amber wigeon]

Better then a woodcock (this has happened to me)

Saiga aren’t the biggest tho

Still megafauna

[serene radish]

There was one hunter that got flattened by a spectacled bear he shot

[amber wigeon]

But just barely

[rare veldt]

Yes but enough of anything runs over you you’re gonna die

[manic inlet]

the meme is valid but we try not to use memes with political figures in here Jerry

[serene radish]

So id say there are worse deaths by animals

[manic inlet]

ive seen it uh

develop into angry screeching

[amber wigeon]

Was low health on scotland and a flying kiwi hit me 😭

[rare veldt]

Point

My

Bad

I will have to find some new stuff

[manic inlet]

this is the only known death to one btw

[serene radish]

Who would've thought

[rare veldt]

Because oh my gosh damn funny things have political figures in em😔

[manic inlet]

literally the only guy to ever die to one

[serene radish]

This is the best part about that story

[manic inlet]

my question is right

who

WHO

sees a 340lb animal

[amber wigeon]

Did he watch south american wrestling from somebodies farmhouse or what 😭

[rare veldt]

Bro got hit by a missile bird 😭

[serene radish]

He had shot it out of a tree and it fell on him

[manic inlet]

80ft up a tree

and go

"ima stand right under it and shoot it"

and then do exactly that

with no consideration

and then just die

[serene radish]

The second you fire a shot AT LEAST move out of the way 🥀

[amber wigeon]

Also pls don’t shoot spectacled bear last short faced bear we have 😔

[manic inlet]

or even just dont stand right under the tree 😭

[serene radish]

That too

[amber wigeon]

They are really compact bears

[manic inlet]

im also fairly sure the guy who died wasnt even doing a legal killing of some sort of problem or sick animal or on a depred permit

i think it was just some rando who decided to shoot the bear

and if that is the case then just

karma

thats just karma

[serene radish]

Karma at its finest

[amber wigeon]

“I don’t like this bear ima shoot it”

[serene radish]

The bear of karma and humbling experiences:

[amber wigeon]

https://tenor.com/view/sleeping-squish-cats-sleeping-cute-sleeping-gif-2782265581611430109

Perfect gif

[manic inlet]

also to reconnect to the saiga antelope again

[amber wigeon]

First flying bear recorded

[manic inlet]

apparently Kazakhstan has so many

like 10 million of them is Kazakhstan is a near future possibility

[amber wigeon]

That i can have one?

[manic inlet]

like by or before 2034

[serene radish]

Ooo

[manic inlet]

because theyre growing, after culling

[serene radish]

Great news for saiga

[manic inlet]

at like 750,000 to 1 million PER YEAR

so theyre like

basically holding millions of vacuum antelope

and going

[amber wigeon]

My boy saiga making it on the taiga 🥹

Ik they are from the steppes but still

[manic inlet]

"aight, anybody wanna kickstart a rewilding program"

[amber wigeon]

Elephant seals might still be goated tho

[manic inlet]

true

[amber wigeon]

But they do sound like a bad taco bell experience

[manic inlet]

one of the greatest conservation comebacks ever

with no sign of slowing down either

[amber wigeon]

Good bc otherwise colossal biosciences would’ve gotten involved 🤢

[serene radish]

This is good news 🗣‼️

[serene radish]

...

As i said before instead of trying to bring back the past we should focus on the present and learn to conserve any species that is struggling so we dont repeat the same mistakes

[amber wigeon]

I just dislike colossal in general

[manic inlet]

the red wolf could REALLY use the CRISPR tech a lot more than anything thats already died

like, the bluebuck is sad and all sure

as is the quagga and the thylacine

and the dodo

but man theyre gone

the world they evolved for has come and passed

[serene radish]

We should leave it and learn to not do the same thing

[amber wigeon]

Yup

[manic inlet]

and we havent a damn hope of reconstructing microbiomes

[serene radish]

All that funding should go into keeping the animals we currently have alive

[manic inlet]

what we can do tho is save things that are still here but deeply endangered

[amber wigeon]

Thylacine can’t find it’s way especially now that there is also feral dogs, cats and hogs

[manic inlet]

like thos madlads that revived an extinct whooping crane migration route by imprinting them to a featherweight craft

and then flying it 1,250 miles from florida to wisconsin

[serene radish]

And foxes

[manic inlet]

to reteach them the migration route

[amber wigeon]

I saw a video about that

It was funny

[manic inlet]

equal parts amusing and legendary

[amber wigeon]

Tho the crane puppet is a bit uncanny

[serene radish]

I loved this story

[manic inlet]

the human ability to figure out a way to bring something back from the dead

[manic inlet]

long ahh neck

bro had like 75 post codes

[amber wigeon]

Cranes are cool

Unfortunately of the 2 species in europe 1 remains

[manic inlet]

honestly with how few whooping cranes there ever were to start with im shocked they didnt die out entirely

[amber wigeon]

The demoiselle crane went extinct

[manic inlet]

like even prior to euro contact with natives

[serene radish]

Ive Sandhill cranes only in zoos sadly

[manic inlet]

whoopings were like

maybe 15,000 birds?

[amber wigeon]

Now we still have these tho

Sorry for bad pic but i was crazy happy to see cranes 😭

[serene radish]

I can't even tell what that is

[manic inlet]

ive seen sandies in person, im at the edge of their migratory path