I currently keep 2 roosters (1 Brahma, a really big rooster and 1 small Brabanter rooster) and 11 chickens, divided over five different pens of different sizes.
I have kept several breeds of chickens over the last ten years or so, and while I have single individuals of three breeds (including the Brahma rooster), a large part of chicken 'collection' also consists of simple hybrid chickens that I keep mostly for the eggs.
The 'pride' of my collection and my only (future) breeding group consists of four individuals, a rooster and three hens, of the Brabanter breed - a fairly rare, ancient breed from the Dutch/Belgian region of Brabant. I acquired my Brabanter group only a couple of weeks ago, in late July, from another breeder. The animal I have are still young and not yet fully grown/completely adult. These animals were born in February and March of this year.
Information on the breed here (on Wikipedia of all places):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brabanter
Here's my Brabanters:
The Brabanter being a light and active breed, I keep them in a large pen that is covered with nets (and thus in fact, the pen is an aviary for all intents and purposes).
The picture probably makes the pen looker smaller, I suppose, but the Brabanters are kept in a 8 by 4 meter pen. The height of the fence and the netting is 2 meters. You can see their coop. The bush in the pen is a white currant bush.
I don't currently have (recent) pictures of my four other pens and my other chickens. I have 3 smaller (4 by 4 by 2 meter) pens that are constructed in the same way as the Brabanter pen, and one large open pen without nets behind our outbuildings. I may add pictures of these on a later date.
I also wanted to show my fish tank in this topic. I've got a 120 liter (82 by 36 by 52 centimeters, approximately) fish tank in our living room at the moment. I've had this particular tank for some 7-8 years or so now, and I've had a few set-ups in it already. My current setup is one with Asian fish species. The current set-up was started, planted and filled with fish between October 2014 and February 2015.
This is my fish tank:
I know it might just be a bit low on plants at the moment, but I recently had to remove a lot of the big feathery-leaved plant as it was growing really aggressively compared to the other plants, and was starting to overgrow them.
This tank is inhabited by:
- 8 Harlequin rasboras (Trigonostigma heteromorpha)
- 1 Honey gourami (Trichogaster), male (I had a female too, but she failed to feed well and died after a couple of months)
- 5 Kuhli loaches (Pangio kuhlii)
Here's one of my Kuhli loaches eating from a Droppy (bottom fish feeding tablet). I have five and they actually show themselves quite regularly, despite what I've read or been told, but I can still count the times I've seen all five at once since I released them on one hand.
My honey gourami also likes the feeding tablets. He regularly feeds from them. I've seen even my rasboras nipping at them.
I have kept several breeds of chickens over the last ten years or so, and while I have single individuals of three breeds (including the Brahma rooster), a large part of chicken 'collection' also consists of simple hybrid chickens that I keep mostly for the eggs.
The 'pride' of my collection and my only (future) breeding group consists of four individuals, a rooster and three hens, of the Brabanter breed - a fairly rare, ancient breed from the Dutch/Belgian region of Brabant. I acquired my Brabanter group only a couple of weeks ago, in late July, from another breeder. The animal I have are still young and not yet fully grown/completely adult. These animals were born in February and March of this year.
Information on the breed here (on Wikipedia of all places):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brabanter
Here's my Brabanters:
The Brabanter being a light and active breed, I keep them in a large pen that is covered with nets (and thus in fact, the pen is an aviary for all intents and purposes).
The picture probably makes the pen looker smaller, I suppose, but the Brabanters are kept in a 8 by 4 meter pen. The height of the fence and the netting is 2 meters. You can see their coop. The bush in the pen is a white currant bush.
I don't currently have (recent) pictures of my four other pens and my other chickens. I have 3 smaller (4 by 4 by 2 meter) pens that are constructed in the same way as the Brabanter pen, and one large open pen without nets behind our outbuildings. I may add pictures of these on a later date.
I also wanted to show my fish tank in this topic. I've got a 120 liter (82 by 36 by 52 centimeters, approximately) fish tank in our living room at the moment. I've had this particular tank for some 7-8 years or so now, and I've had a few set-ups in it already. My current setup is one with Asian fish species. The current set-up was started, planted and filled with fish between October 2014 and February 2015.
This is my fish tank:
I know it might just be a bit low on plants at the moment, but I recently had to remove a lot of the big feathery-leaved plant as it was growing really aggressively compared to the other plants, and was starting to overgrow them.
This tank is inhabited by:
- 8 Harlequin rasboras (Trigonostigma heteromorpha)
- 1 Honey gourami (Trichogaster), male (I had a female too, but she failed to feed well and died after a couple of months)
- 5 Kuhli loaches (Pangio kuhlii)
Here's one of my Kuhli loaches eating from a Droppy (bottom fish feeding tablet). I have five and they actually show themselves quite regularly, despite what I've read or been told, but I can still count the times I've seen all five at once since I released them on one hand.
My honey gourami also likes the feeding tablets. He regularly feeds from them. I've seen even my rasboras nipping at them.
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A fat black cat named Tuesday.
