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daaaahmer · 2 years
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true crime on facebook is wild cuz someone will post like, “I think he’s guilty cuz who kidnaps 14 women and purchases 200 lbs of ammo and poison and then rents a boat and then the footage shows him coming back alone?” and someone else’s will comment: “that’s not that abnormal.”
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cowgirlcherrie · 8 months
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☆ WISHFUL THINKING. loser! sbf! ellie williams headcanons
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♪ 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠…wishful thinking by benee
a/n: here are just some quick head-canons of loser ellie, ellie is best friends with the readers sister, basically like bbf! ellie but girls girl coded dynamic.
warnings/content: 18+ MDNI. a nsfw section. breeding kink. switch!ellie. kissing. petname usage. ellie is so loser…LOL but it intertwines with canon ellie. cursing. dirty talking. finger sucking. edging. mostly toothrotting fluff for the first section
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౨ৎ loser! Ellie owns an obscure amount of graphic tees with silly slogans on them:
“I ♡ HOT MOMS” or “I ♡ MILFS” or “BIG DICK IS BACK IN TOWN”
** I can’t find the post but one of my mutuals had an exact post of how she would dress…adam sandler core fr
When she gets complimented on them, she does not know how to take a compliment. When you found one of the slogans funny, your hands delicately intertwined with the fabric of her shirt as you tugged the fabric — with your phone hovering over the bolded text to take a picture – Ellie was sweating bullets beneath your touch.
౨ৎ loser! Ellie dismissed you the first time that the two of you met; she moved like a shadow whenever you were around; if you were talking in the kitchen, she would completely walk out of the room and just avoid the area. At first, you thought Ellie stopped coming around and being friends with your sister until you actively caught her turning on her heels and just heads in another direction.
౨ৎ loser! Ellie goes to your college and is a year above you but you didn’t know she was going to JSU (Jackson state university) because you thought she was planning on community, so it was a shocker to see her around campus because she actually would say hi to you or sit and chat if she wasn’t with Dina or Jesse.
౨ৎ loser! Ellie is obsessed with Jurassic Park and owns all of the DVD collections. She even has posters up on the wall that is stills from the movie and ones she was able to find with a deep dive online *cough* Reddit *cough* Facebook marketplace *cough* 
Frequently she tried to get your sister into it who gets sick of her asking–  but kept on nagging at Ellie to ask you instead, and with many dab pen hits and a quick pep talk in the bathroom, Ellie built up enough courage to ask you to watch it with her. 
The two of you bonded over having crushes on Ellie Sattler which was the first time that Ellie realized that you liked girls and she might have a shot with you.
“It’s even better to watch when you’re high because the dinosaurs are all like-…woahh”
౨ৎ loser! Ellie enjoys it’s always sunny in Philadelphia and parks and recreation, and would definitely enjoy emergency intercom or just podcast-y youtube channels 
౨�� loser! Ellie sucks at eye contact, whenever you start talking to her she rubs at the back of her neck, and looks at her feet, twirling the necklace that’s tucked closely to her skin and her shirt. She just doesn’t stop fidgeting. Her face gets all red but she plays it off that Joel kept on turning the heater on when there was no need for it.
౨ৎ loser! Ellie wears flat-brim vintage hats, especially some with corduroy fabric, and apart from her standard arm tattoo gets silly patchwork ones, like one of a drawing she did for Joel. Has a lot of rings and especially enjoys the spinny ones.
౨ৎ loser! Ellie who collects Savage Starlight comics, as always, is surprised when you tell her you found some copies in the bookstore that was actually going to get thrown away but you bargained with the owner to buy the barrel of the books because you knew she would like to have them. She gets all flustered when she realizes that you were thinking of her and it brings the craziest smile to her fast that you took enough time to remember such minuscule detail about her. 
“Do you– uh- do you want me to pay you back?”
౨ৎ loser! Ellie wakes up late all the time when she sleeps over at your house like I’m talking 11-12:30 pm and will walk around the house with messy hair, a large t-shirt and boxers, and dry drool patch on her mouth and down her cheek until she realizes she had been watched for the past few minutes by you who was scared shitless because you didn’t even she spent the night.
౨ৎ loser! Ellie in traditional Ellie fashion uses cursing as a coping mechanism when she gets nervous and doesn’t know what to say:
“I don’t fuckin’ know ask your sister”
“That’s fuckin cute… I guess”
“Oh – Fuck you!”
౨ৎ when your sister started this thing every two weeks where there is a girl’s night, she’d invite Ellie over for a sleepover and the sleepless night would be full of gossip, painting each other’s nails, drinking cheap wine that Ellie got from the gas station down the way —  primarily a self-care night, it takes a lot of convincing to get Ellie to join in but once she does, she regrets it slightly. However, she tolerates it because she can use it as an excuse just to see you and learn about what is up with your life or if you started seeing anyone.
౨ৎ loser! Ellie who bitches and cries when she has a facemask on, and is hissing and spewing curses under her breath every few minutes, with a fluffy headband on that is pushing her auburn hair back, begging you to take it off; meanwhile, you are applying a clear coat on her nails because she would complain about any other color but she keeps tensing up.
“Ow! What the fuck is in this…it hurts, take it off! Take it off!”
౨ৎ loser! Ellie when the summertime rolled around, meant she would be spending way more time with you and your sister – eventually, your sister goes to the locksmith and get Ellie her own key. Ellie will be indulging in pool days with you which is a recipe for disaster
She is tripping all over the place, and terribly applied sunscreen on her face which cast a slight ghostly white cast on her face, adding to how stunned she was to see you in a swimsuit, but she couldn’t look away and caught herself wandering her eyes to places she probably shouldn’t have. 
Underwater kiss! Underwater kiss! 
But she tries to play it off and acts like it never even happened the next day. But when Ellie closed her eyes all she could feel was your wet lips on hers, as the two of you were grabbing at each other and the way for a second time slowed down and all she could feel was the movement of the water and your hands on her skin.
When she applied sunscreen wrong and asks you to fix it for her, gets so embarrassed as you rub your hands over her face to moisturize the sunscreen into her face, but every time she opens her eyes she just sees the view of your boobs in the bikini you are wearing and just squeezes her eyes shut. Visibly pretends to bite her fist when you’re done
౨ৎ loser! Ellie 100% asking strangers on Reddit how to confess for you with crazy ass headlines, 
F(22) IN LOVE WITH MY BEST FRIEND'S SISTER F(21) ADVICE? If a girl’s arm lingers on you for too long does it mean she likes you? (F) Good pick-up lines that aren’t cringy for gays only…please How much does astrology and birth chart compatibility really matter? 
౨ৎ loser! Ellie splits her sandwiches with you and gives you a jacket when you are cold because even though she asks you a million times and you said no each time she asked. She still brings a jacket just for you — and how she would scold you for not bringing one. (all out of love though)
“You fucker! I knew you would be cold, see this is why I said to bring a jacket” 
Pretends to be angry but really she was waiting for this moment.
Eventually, you build a collection, having 3 of Ellie’s jackets in your room, which was Ellie’s subtle excuse to be able to talk to you. 
౨ৎ loser! Ellie doesn’t hesitate to pick you up from an on-campus party, and her heart shatters when you are crying because you had a shitty night and you don’t want her to tell your sister. Takes you to whatever fast food is open at that hour even if that means she’d have to drive 30 minutes extra just to make you smile.  
“Shh…sweetheart terrible nights happen it’s okay”
“Are you hungry?…cuz’ like I’m fuckin hungry” Ellie whispers amidst a thick awkward silence, mentally cringing and wanting to bang her head on the steering wheel as she grips the wheel until her knuckles turn white.
Suddenly becomes good with comforting people when it comes to you, but anyone else – the spinny wheel of death appears above her head as she struggles to formulate a good sentence. 
౨ৎ loser! Ellie who hates when you bring up anyone you start talking to or that you are going out with, will sit there with her fist tight and jaw clenched whispering to you:
“There are people who can treat you way better”
And by people she really means herself. 
౨ৎ loser! Ellie who set off the fire alarm once by accident because she was hotboxing in her room with Jesse and Dina and almost got a dean’s office summons and tried to blame it on the neighbors next door. 
౨ৎ loser! Ellie when Ellie tells your sister that she likes you, your sister makes the most disgusted face at her, but becomes Ellie’s wing-woman and kinda tells Ellie all of your likes and dislikes, which Ellie has a whole page in her journal with facts about you. 
“can I have your blessing to uh…date your um, fuck sorry your sister?”
“ellie please shut up I’m gonna throw up”
౨ৎ loser! Ellie has pictures of michael cera as her icons on every form of social media.
౨ৎ loser! Ellie gets flustered easily over indirect kisses, like sharing food or sharing drinks, and suddenly she becomes so hyperaware. 
nsfw 𖦹⋆彡🫧꩜♪⋆
౨ৎ When Ellie started having more than just friendly feelings for you…her whole demeanor changed, the tension was so thick it could cut with a sharp knife. Subtle touches suddenly had more meaning and her body felt like someone lit a match with gasoline dripping from her body and set her aflame. 
౨ৎ after an accidental confession that leads to the two of you dating, lewd thoughts from the shadow of her brain came after and she couldn’t control it — initially was too embarrassed to tell you and had nights where she would just walk to the bathroom and try her best to get off in the shower but it only got her so far before it wasn’t helping or doing enough and at this point she needed to actually touch you
౨ৎ That time she slept over and was sleeping on your couch, hoodie on her body with the hood up covering her face, blankets falling off of her body giving a full view of her sleep boxer shorts. When you walked by to go grab a drink of water around 3 am you could hear her moaning your name in your sleep.
౨ৎ is one of those people who seem bashful, sparky, and innocent throughout the day but in the sheets is the biggest freak ever, she becomes another level of unholy.
౨ৎ a breeding kink! Definitely owns one of the squirting dildos because she loves to watch the way liquids drip out of you when she’s done, will sit back pulling at your folds with her fingers with the shit-eating grin on her face that reads I did that 
“Look at you~” “all fucked out for me” Ellie speaks coly and in between breaths as her head reaches down to put kisses all over your face.
౨ৎ Ellie likes to see how much she can get away with, smacks your ass, pulls you back by your belt loop, sticks her hand way too far up your thigh, moans high pitched in your ear during public settings 
౨ৎ falls asleep with her hand on your boobs, god forbid she’s having a nightmare, she starts squeezing them in the midst of it. 
౨ৎ makes dick jokes talking about some:
“My pullout game is not weak thank you very much, if that was the case we would have had a lot of children already”
When listening to rap music that goes into heavy description about fucking humps the air sometimes to the lyrics...not elaborating she's hella immature LOL 
౨ৎ The minute the two of you go out and one of your friends says how she is a simp and how you have all the control in the situation, Ellie will make sure you know that she indefinitely has the upper hand. It’s like a switch flips in her head she gets so ruthless and so mean, she doesn’t want you to forget it either and fucks you until you can’t think
You will be moaning and clawing at her back as she pounds in a rhythmic motion in and out of you, her mouth would get so filthy, smirking as her fingers rub over your lips as she slips her thumb in for you to suck,
“but …do your friends know that you cry like this under me? that you look so pathetic under me?”
“Who’s in charge again cuz’ I fuckin’ know it’s not you”
“Are you cumming? Oh no you don’t…let me see you” “What if I just stopped right now?”
Likes to edge you, no doubt.
౨ৎ a switch likes to be topped or touched but also likes to be the top
౨ৎ whimpers whenever you touch her like a puppy, her eyes get glassy and her face gets red as she lets out low mewls of your name, and suddenly it’s like you’re an angel hovering over her and your touch is an addictive drug that she never wants to stop having.
౨ৎ  Overall just the best girlfriend ever, with a combination of silliness and fun in one, a big ol’ dork that is really just obsessed with you.
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stevierogersbabygirl · 3 months
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What No One Sees (pt.2)
(Dark?)Professor!Steve Rogers x reader
Run-through: Steve was that one popular professor that everyone liked, and you were closest to him. You'd never predict that he'd be the father of your future child.
Chapter themes: smut, breeding, pregnancy, angst, fluff
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It's a few weeks in, and you were very sure you were carrying Steve's baby. You texted Steve about it, but for weeks he had not replied or even seen your messages. Not to mention the fact there are rumors he resigned from the campus and moved to another state.
You could not believe he'd just run away like that, and you were also in a state of denial that the perfect man you had known for a long time was in reality an ignorant coward.
You decided to keep your mind off it, to focus on your pregnancy.
You were 2 months pregnant.
Because you had the pregnancy symptoms, you've skipped so many days of college, and luckily your college allows you to make up the work that you missed while you were out. Your closest friends were also helping you out with everything.
One day, one of them suggested you to make the court order Steve to take a paternity test, to which you agreed to.
5 days later, it came back positive. Steve is indeed the father of your child.
Knowing that he somewhat communicated with you by taking the test, you'd wonder if he finally read your texts.
Your eyes widened when it says he finally read it, but there weren't any replies.
Frustrated with Steve, you decided to confront him in person, by finding his current location, through online stalking.
It was a Tuesday night and you were in your pajamas, laptop on your desk as you tried to find Steve's online profiles.
You soon got to his Facebook account, "Steven Grant Rogers" and you saw something you'd never expect.
Steve was married.
He was apparently married to this woman named Margaret Elizabeth Carter.
You were in pure shock, eyes widened and mouth gaped to the realization that you unknowingly contributed to an affair.
As you scrolled further down your mouth gaped even bigger.
Steve also has children.
You not only unknowingly contributed to an affair, but your affair partner also has children.
Steve had such a perfect persona and it made you even harder to believe all of this.
You were shocked, angry, upset, and confused, all at the same time.
He cheated on his wife, and betrayed his children to have sex with you.
Steve is a terrible man.
Despite the shocking revelation, it only fueled your curiosity even more about the entire situation, making you want to stalk him even more.
You needed answers.
He has not recently posted, making it harder for you to find his location, until you saw his friends list, hoping they recently posted him.
That's when you saw his friend, James Buchanan Barnes' story from a few minutes ago, of the two of them sitting outside of a cafe, it's full location on display.
Jackpot.
You successfully convinced one of your closest friends to take you to the location, which was in the state right next to where you lived.
Adrenaline was pumping as you prepared yourself to confront the man.
Anger, sadness, confusion were all filling your head as you mentally prepared to confront the man.
But you tried to calm yourself down because stress during pregnancy could've chronically affected your little one's health.
In 2 hours, you've arrived at the cafe and see Steve and his friend sitting at a table infront of it.
There he fucking was.
Months of anger, sadness, and confusion, it will all soon come out, he can't hide anymore.
You went up to him and Steve turned his head to look at you, his face instantly panicked.
"Where the fuck have you been?" You said loudly in anger, making the other customers sitting outside turn their heads towards you.
Steve sighed, and dragged your hand into the restaurant and into the restaurant bathroom. Everyone watched.
His face made it look like you were an annoyance to him. You didn't like his audacity to drag you like that, which fueled your anger even further.
You were both inside the bathroom now, and Steve locked the door.
At that point, your eyes were full of tears and you wanted to choke him on the wall.
He turned to face you, a hint of sadness in his eyes, a tense atmosphere was forming.
You took a deep breath and yelled out, "What is wrong with you?! You got me pregnant and you decide to just leave like that? And then I find out you have a wife and kids and you made me contribute to an affair? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?"
Steve walked forward which made you subconsciously walk backwards, and soon enough, you were trapped between him and the wall. You immediately looked down, not wanting to see that face.
"I don't like your tone, Y/N." He said, slowly raising his hand to lift your chin.
You slapped his hand away and said, "You think this shit still works, Steve? I know who you fucking are now. I know your true colors. You are just an ignorant, absent father of a man who's also a shitty person! Not just to our child, but to James and Sarah too."
Steve had a hint of sadness in his eyes as he heard those words come out of your mouth. You were still looking down.
You weren't even sure the bathroom's walls were shout-proof.
Steve said gently, "Look at me."
You lifted your head to look at him. You hated how you just obeyed him like that.
Steve took a deep breath, and started talking in his signature soft voice, "I am going through a divorce with my wife because I found out that she has been cheating with me since our marriage started, so roughly 12 years ago. I know doing the same thing does not make me any better, but sometimes bad things have to be done to get a good result, and that good result is you."
You looked into his eyes, your tense emotions disappearing greatly after hearing what he said. You then said, "Then why did you leave?"
"Because I wasn't ready to be a father to our child, Y/N. I also didn't want people to find out about us. I know it's wrong, but I felt that this wasn't good for my family's image. I also don't want our child to hate me after finding out what we did together, and how I cheated." Steve said, holding your hands.
You sighed, the tears finally going down your face as you said, "Can't we just be together, Steve? Why can't you just let her go. You can be with the woman whom you truly love, Steve."
Steve gave you his signature soft smile, and put a hair strand behind your ear. "I also wish for it to be that way. I'm going through a divorce right now, and I promise if it's all over, I'll return to you, and we will raise our child together." He put his hand on your womb, as you both turned to look at it, smiling warmingly.
"And I'm sorry for being a coward, Y/N. It was irresponsible of me. We will be together, I promise." He said, caressing your cheek.
It ended with a big hug and a deep kiss.
And he kept his promise.
Three years later, you've graduated from college and got a high-paying job, while Steve worked a new occupation which was also high-paying.
You guys were newlyweds with your toddler daughter, whom you collectively agreed on naming Stephanie.
Stephanie Anne Rogers.
The wedding day included a ceremony where both of your friends and families were invited. It took a while for both sides of family and friends to accept the fact that it all started as professor-student.
The wedding consisted of happy tears, funny photographs, and delicious food.
It was a day after the wedding, and you both reminisced about it, laughing at the memories of the wedding.
You, Steve and Stephanie were sat on the couch in comfy clothing, looking at the wedding pictures' book.
"Look at Bucky in this picture!" You said, pointing and giggling at his dancing pose. Steve turned to look at him and decided to stand up and impersonate him, making you laugh even more. Stephanie, with no clue what is happening also started laughing, way harder than you did. You and Steve looked at her with smiles as she couldn't stop. Kids being kids.
When it was finally night, you and Steve planned something intimate for the both of you, so you both dropped Stephanie at one of Steve's friends', Natasha's house to initiate it.
This was the first time you both were intimate as husband and wife.
You two were finally alone in the master bedroom. He held you tight to him as you both started kissing.
While you were kissing, you both started to undress slowly, until you were both naked.
You smirked and instantly got onto your knees and softly placed your hand on his shaft, stroking in gently. Steve moaned at the contact as he looked down at you.
You'd look up into his eyes, then placed your lips onto his tip and used your tongue to pleasure him greatly, and judging by Steve's frown of pleasure you knew you were doing something right.
You slowly started bobbing your head up and down his cock, toying with his balls, and in no time you sucked faster and Steve also thrusted his hips faster in your mouth.
You then went onto the bed and laid on it back-first, letting Steve finger you as he simultaneously stroked his cock. He'd start with one finger and gradually add more, fingering you with increasing pace and in no time, his tip would be at your entrance.
You both moaned as his cock went in, and you grasped the sheets tighter when you felt the size. He'd first go with slow thrusts, making you adjust to his size, and you'd beg more and more until he went harder and faster, as you rubbed your clitoris while doing so.
You came first, violently cumming around him, and he came next, filling your womb with his sperm.
He'd slow down his thrusting, and leaned forward to kiss you deeply, his cock not wanting to leave you.
"I love you, Y/N." He said, giving you a kiss on your forehead, then looking down to look at you with a soft smile and love in his eyes.
"I love you too, Steve." You said, also with love on your face, lifting your hands to adjust his head to kiss you deeply.
You eventually got pregnant, again.
Stephanie was going to be a big sister!
The baby was a boy, and you eventually decided named him Scott.
Scott William Rogers.
Your life has become so beautiful.
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crtter · 15 days
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One time, me and my mom spotted a puppy all by himself trying to cross a busy street. He was super dirty, like you’d expect an abandoned dog to be, but no matter how you looked at it, he was a labrador. Like, you look up “chocolate labrador puppy” on Google and all the images that come up will look exactly like he looked like.
Anyway, we took him in and fed him, cleaned him, got him vaccinated, etc. like we usually do with any abandoned animals we rescue but we were confused as to why someone would get a seemingly purebred (and therefore expensive) dog just to go and get rid of it. We assumed he had run away and we even posted pictures of him in the neighborhood’s Facebook group asking if someone had lost a chocolate lab, but no one ever came to get him back.
We only realized why he had been abandoned when he started getting older and his features started to change and increasingly resemble the features of another dog breed the average person doesn’t like nearly as much as labradors. Turns out he was half-labrador, half-pitbull!
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kaiyonohime · 2 years
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Warning to fiber sellers
This is a summary post that is out of date.  I have a pinned post that is up to date with the facts here.  More has happened since this post was written.
This is a warning to ALL fiber sellers online, especially those who sell via sites like Facebook.  
In recent months there has been some drama that a seller named Sherry Tenney/Sherry Vondorp has been taking money and not sending product or sending the wrong product.  She’s been doing this for years, and to the scope of $15,000+ USD.  People who had been scammed by her connected and started comparing stories, and then discovering just how long it’s been going on and that she’s still doing it.
Sherry Tenney’s confirmed know aliases and the names she goes by (she changes her name frequently on social media):
Sherry Tenney
Vondorp Sherry
Sherry Vondorp
Lee Giltay
Sara Rudacille
Sherry Lee Price
Sherry Tenney Giltay
At first, that’s all it was.  She would send out some fleece/fiber, but maybe not all, and then, in the past few years, frequently none at all.  She would claim all sorts of reasons, like the post office lost hundreds of packages in a year, and other vague hand wavy excuses.  The main issue is that she was violently aggressive toward people who inquired about where their product was.  As in death threats aggressive.  Long, ranting threats about shooting them in fields and feeding them to her pigs threats.  There are videos.  They are disturbing.  
Well, a group called ‘Demon Trolls’ on Ravelry was discussing this and encouraging her to refund or send out the purchased product.  The group ‘Demon Trolls’ keeps track of problematic sellers in the fiber community so that people can be warned.  Sellers that take money and don’t send product, sellers that are falling months behind in shipping, and sellers that are not sending the product that was purchased.  The group keeps tabs, they don’t actively pursue action of any sort, but they let customers share complaints and stories and keep track of the unfolding situations.
Well, Sherry Tenney/Sherry Vondorp has been... unique.  Instead of offering fake apologies (something that is frequently done), or cleaning up her act and running her business professionally (something that genuinely does happen at times as well, sometimes sellers just underestimate how hard it is to run a business at times), she doubled down on the aggression.  There are hour long videos threatening to shoot and kill people from the group, and former customers simply for complaining about not receiving purchased goods.  There has been bizarre stories about ‘microburst tornadoes’ killing her sheep and her leaving them in the field to rot for days on end, her having bears coming to kill her sheep because she leaves them out all night long, her having birthing season go on for months because she just keeps rams in the herd and doesn’t keep track of breeding.
I could go on.  The woman is... unhinged is the only polite way to put it.
It also came out within the past few days that it’s more than just her scamming people.  It turns out what her and a group of about 25 others would do is go to sellers pages on FB, black the mods and admins, and then tell the others that she sold fleece for cheaper and better quality than them.  She would poach the customers from small farms, and her and others would purposefully repeatedly report the small farm and their page to get it taken down so they couldn’t sell at all.
Then, when the farm was desperate, some of these small sellers have reported more than a 50% drop in income when she has done this, she would buy the fleeces at cheaper prices from them, mark them up, and then ‘resell’ them, frequently to the customers she lured away.  Given that she would frequently sell the same fleece to multiple people and never ship it, it was a way for her to get a ton of sales with little to no overhead herself.
She, working in tandem with another woman, would keep passing emails back and forth with customers until the window to file a chargeback would close, and then she would send disgusting messages to the customer and block them.  
If you have a Ravelry account, this has all been compiled for viewing here.  I do warn you, the videos are unnerving and I could barely stomach just reading the transcripts.  
The discussion about what is going on with Sherry Tenney/Sherry Vondorp is here.  I am warning you, it is currently at 300 pages of discussion.  A lot has happened in just the past few months.  It is insane.
Please reblog this so other fiber sellers know to watch out for her, and to be warned about what she is doing.  She is purposefully destroying businesses for her own profit.
Edit:
I am editing the original post and adding this update.  Sherry Tenney/Sherry Vondorp tries to avoid notice by frequently changing her name on Facebook (where she tries to do business via messenger only so as to avoid having a paper trail), as well as the names of her businesses.  She is trying to rely on people not knowing the names of her accounts, and there are many, and then being scammed.
Sherry Tenney frequently goes by the name Sherry Vondorp (her grandmother’s maiden name).  She will also use other aliases connected to either other family member’s names or the names of former husbands that she legally held at one point.  
On Facebook her groups are:
Farmlife in the country
RAW WOOL 4 ALL selling buying group USA
Tenneys Fibers and raw wool buyers group
Fiber sellers
The Cashmere Turtle luxury fiber affordable prices
The Dye house and Mrs Tuttle country fiber arts (community)
On Instagram her account is:
Marylandlongwool
Although, as I said before, she frequently changes the names of her shops on Facebook.  It is not unusual for her to change her name or her shop names multiple times a month in an attempt to avoid them and herself being noticed.  So please, be very careful when buying fleece over social media and in social media communities.  Tenney has also sold fleece in Dirty Fleece, Done Dirt Cheap in the past as well.  People have reported that the fleeces they have received from her at times have been absolutely riddled with moth larvae and moths in the past, so if you have ever received anything from her please check to make sure it was quarantined from the rest of your stash.
If you are a seller and have been contacted by her, please be sure to get full payment upfront.  Multiple sellers are reporting that they have done business with her and she has either refused to pay or reversed the charges once the product has been received.  She is a thief, this cannot be stressed enough at this time.
Edit:
Sherry Tenney/Sherry Vondorp works very closely with a woman named Suzanne Smith Collier who actively helps her with her scam, and helps her do damage to other small fiber sellers online.  We do not know if Suzanne shares in the profits from this scam, but she is a documented participant in it.  She will actively help run out the refund clock for customers who email about orders they have not received, and will block people the instant the refund clock is over.  
Suzanne Smith Collier Etsy is ‘FinerThanFroggyHair’, formerly ‘Spinning Yarns & Weaving Tall Tails’.  Her FB group is ‘Finer Than Frog’s Hair’.
Pleased be warned about her as well.
Also, as a reminder, please do not harass anyone online, and especially not in real life.  Sherry Tenney/Sherry Vondorp has once again posted another message about having guns and threatening to shoot people.  The woman should be considered extremely unstable and very dangerous.  She sometimes teaches classes on her farm, and I would not sign up for those even as a joke.  No one wants to see anyone physically hurt in real life.
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fbwzoo · 7 months
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Dear fucking LORD I am beyond grateful for the reptile Facebook groups. I was already in most of the needed ones - Advancing Herpetological Husbandry, Reptile Lighting, and How Not to Slay the Dragon. Last one was the immediate care info brush up and getting specifics down for set up. My post is up in there now & already gotten some really nice helpful comments, which made me nearly cry once.
Have joined another group from there, for bearded dragons with muscular dystrophy, as it's possible that's what Ed may have along with MBD. Still relatively new and not much research, but seems to be getting more common in pet store dragons due to poor breeding. So I have that group for info if needed.
And now I have money to finish immediate supply shopping, so I went to get the heat bulbs and UVB light, then wanted to double check that the light would be correct for the usage. Reptile Lighting has all of the mesh screens researched for amount of UVB blocked, which coordinates for a chart to tell you the right bulb strength for distances to ensure the right amount of UVB exposure.
Cue almost crying again bc THANK YOU THAT WAS SO EASY.
Bulbs ordered.
Oh, and Ed has a vet appointment on Monday afternoon, so we just gotta get through the weekend. Focusing on rehydration first, fixing basking spot second, and then we'll try food.
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clocksallzeros · 2 years
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Basic dog color genetics
Okay, so I really love dog color genetics and wanted to make a post explaining them because there’s so much cool stuff going on. 
Most of my info will be coming from the DogGenetics website, along with the Facebook group Dog Coat Color Genetics, and the UCDavis website. 
I’ll be assuming a basic understanding of Mendelian genetics, if you don’t know about Punnett squares there are tons of great resources around the internet, and the DogGenetics site has a great beginner article. 
I will not be using breed-specific terms, just generic ones. There are simply too many breed terms to define and explain. Also, they are confusing, since GSD people call agouti "sable".
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Above left: Loki, @lokivonkrusenbusch eurasier Loki. He is Agouti.
Above right: Maki, my mixed-breed dog, is a shaded sable.
These are the basics, I’ll be making a new post for each locus later on!  
Before we get to the actual colors: Dogs have two pigments, Eumelanin and Phaeomelanin. While each can be modified to different shades, the default for eumelanin is black and phaeomelanin is red. I’ll call them Black and Red pigment for ease of reading, but be aware they can be modified. White is a lack of pigment.
A Locus is a gene location, which has several alleles that have different outcomes. Basic genes have two but some have many more. Loci is the plural of Locus.
Dog coat colors work in layers, so I’ll go from the top down.
C locus: (not named): albinism and color point. This locus affects the color expression and whether the entire dog is white or color point. 
S locus (S/s/others): white spotting. This goes on top of everything else. Determines how much white is on the dog.
T locus (T, Tr, t): ticking and roan. This determines whether white areas will have ticking. 
E locus (E/Em/Eg/Eh/Ea/e): masking/grizzle/recessive red. This layer determines whether or not the black pigment shows, and if so, where. 
K locus (KB/Kbr/Ky): black/brindle/patterned. This layer also determines where black pigment shows up, after the E locus. Brindle dogs will be striped on the Red pigmented areas, as determined by the A locus. Seal is involved here somewhere. It makes the black pigment on a dominant black less opaque so that the A locus will show through. 
A locus (ASIPdy, ASIPsy, ASIPag, ASIPbs, ASIPbb1, ASIPbb2, ASIPbb3, ASIPa): sable, agouti, tan point, saddle tan, and recessive black. This determines which areas of the dog will have black hair and whether the hairs will change which pigment they produce over time.
The following Locii modify existing layers:
I series: (I, i, potentially more): intensity. This gene controls the richness of the red color exposed by the E locus. 
D locus (D/d): blue/grey. This layer changes the black to grey. 
B locus (B/b): brown/liver.  This layer changes the black to liver, different shades depending on the specific allele. Cocoa is another allele that does basically the same thing. A dog can be both grey and liver, also known as Lilac.
G locus (G,g): progressive grey. This gene causes some breeds to slowly fade the Black pigment to grey. 
M Locus (M, Mh, Mc,m and more): merle. This determines if the dog has merle fur and how strong it is. 
H locus (H,h): harlequin. This is a modifier of merle that only exists in Great Danes, it turns merle into black patches. 
These genes all come together to "build" the color of the dog. They can be as simple as a black lab or as complex as a sighthound with grizzle, lilac, progressive greying, and brindle. These can combine in surprising ways to make all sorts of interesting colors.
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Above left: Ponzu, @intriga-hounds silken windhound. She's brindle with visible white.
Above right: Tilly, @teacup-labrador 's labrador retriever. She's a solid black dog.
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kedreeva · 1 year
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Maybe a silly question but I thought I’d ask! Do you ship your sold mice at all? (Specifically to Canada :o) Also do you post the mice you’re selling anywhere in specific? Asking for a friend (the friend is me)
Not a silly question at all, I get asked every once in a while! Unfortunately the answer is that I don't- not because I'm unwilling but because I'm unable. Shipping mice is both ridiculously expensive and requires legal stuff I don't have.
Because they can chew their way out of containment and become an invasive species, our normal postal system won't do it. Even large facilities like Jackson Labs and Charles River don't ship through the postal service, they have their own company to truck them.
Most individual people that want to move mice a long distance either have to get a large group together to cover cost (every few years one of my mouse groups puts together a group to buy and ship mice from Europe from one fanciers club to another and arranges a cross country train for distribution), or arrange a "mouse train" where someone driving a long distance posts their willingness to meet up along their route and pick up/drop off mice as they go. I've had people drive to me from as far away as 7 hours to pick up breeding pairs, because there's just not another good way and that's easier than trying to ship.
That said, I'm fairly close by the Detroit/Canada bridge so Canada itself isn't that far from me if someone on the other side wants to pick up. I usually list for-sale mice on my farm's Facebook page, but you'd be better off being on the wait-list because what gets posted is only posted after that list has been addressed privately.
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amber-tortoiseshell · 7 months
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hi!! i'm trying to figure out widebanding & the multiple CORIN alleles & i am Struggling. do you have any idea what's going on here??? this is what i've got:
- sunshine = wbSIB (recessive), but when a cat has I/- wbSIB/wbSIB, this produces a bimetallic cat instead silver shaded/chinchilla??
- goldenSib = ???? is it just a "basic" wideband that interacts w/ inhibitor gene typically????? or something else entirely???? extreme sunshine maybe??? so confused Dx
- copper = wbBSH, obviously breed specific. gives that white belly look. i assume it also interacts normally w/ pigment inhibitor
- sorrel is in Bengals & it has the white belly look & we don't know much more?
is there an allele for the golden tabby look where it's like black (or whatever color) markings against golden fur? or is it just an aspect of the variable expression in widebanding?
Hello! I'll try to help as much as i can 😊
[I accidentally wrote a very long answer so here's a break for everyone's convience]
So!
Sunshine (wbSIB) és extreme sunshine (wbeSIB) respectively results in the sunshine and extreme sunshine phenotypes. And yes, you're right, sunshine+inhibitor=bimetal, there's no silver shaded from this, you need an other wideband gene for that. (Since CORIN is the only identified wb gene, it's entirely possible that there are several more which are able to produce chinchilla and silver shaded colors).
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Sunshine and sunshine silver from the Chatterie de Sib'Adventures
I think right now goldensib is used for both "normal" golden siberians and sunshines (without inhibitor), especially since they are not always distinguished properly. Sunshine is still a new term, and not everyone uses it. I think we have to wait at least a few years to let everything sink down, every gene properly written down and then the terminology will come around. (I mean. Most likely it won't be a nice logical system even then because when are these kind of naming systems nice and accurate? Never. Lol.)
For example here's the Vistula cattery with beautiful silver and golden cats. They don't use the name "sunshine", however they use "bimetallic", which can't be anything else but sunshine.
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According to the breeder, Unikol is black bimetallic (code nus), Tolstoy is black golden (code ny). The litter born from this pairing is listed in the post of the cattery as the following:
4 black bimetallic female
1 black silver mackerel female
2 blue golden or blue bimetallic male
1 black bimetallic male
What's going on here? Sunshine (including bimetal) is recessive, so Tolstoy must carry it; and since the cattery doesn't use the term 'sunshine', only golden, maybe sunshine he really is (and his color code would be more precise as 'nu'). However they had a silver kit, which suggests another type of golden (two sunshines can't have non-sunshine offspring), if her id is correct. Then Tolstoy would be heterozygous for two different golden genes. (I think it's very likely that different wide band genes are often intermingled like this, since golden programs can include all of them.)
All in all my point is that in practice goldensib can mean any wideband-type color.
Now to move onto the british allele. Actually I think CORIN wbBSH + inhibitor can gives bimetals too. But since other wide band genes are very clearly present and mixed into the corin lines, i'm pretty sure lots of copper/flaxen/sunshine/akita/whatever british cats carry several different wide band alleles, and together they can make these cats look very light.
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This kitten for example was tested homozygote wbBSH/wbBSH.
On the other hand there are cats like this:
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which i really can't call anything but bimetal.
Here and here are two facebook groups about CORIN british cats. (The genetic codes used there work like this: 'cop' is wbBSH, 'n' is Wb. So cop/cop is a copper, cop/n is a carrier (if the allele is fully recessive which i'm actually not sure anymore?), n/n is a non-carrier. The 'lightning gene' term is also used sometimes, it's most likely simply the inhibitor.)
I think all we know about the CORIN mutations in bengals are from this article.
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Corin loss-of-function mutations, including missense mutations in domestic cats and the tiger, are responsible for autosomal recessive forms of golden coat color. In Bengal cats, AsipPb and CorinPb allele frequencies are correlated with the categorical ranking of color variation, but in opposing directions. Asiplc allele frequencies decrease and Corinlc alleles frequencies increase as coat color transitions from grey-brown to red-orange color tones across individuals (Figure 4A - [see above]).
I don't think the sorrel coloration was ever explicitly associated with CORIN mutations, but since they correlate with warm colors, it's a fair assumption.
As for your last question, i think this is about the degree of the wide banding. When the wide bands aren't that wide yet (golden blotched tabby instead of golden shaded), the black pigments are still visible.
Most organisations differentiate between four levels of wide banding (in goldens and three levels in silver which annoys me a little).
n 21-25 - black (brown) * tabby
ny 21-25 - black golden * tabby
ny 11 - black golden shaded/shell tabby
ny 12 - black golden tipped/chinchilla tabby
* = blotched/classic/mackerel/spotted/ticked
And these categories aren't discrete, this is a scale. So I think goldens with black markings are just those on the lower end of the scale.
Most likely you've already seen this website, but Little Carnivore also have nice summaries about different genes, including CORIN, which i linked. It also has lots of pictures!
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❄️ 25 Days of Kinkmas ❄️
Another year, another curated holiday prompt list to bring a bit of informal cheer to our kinky neck of the woods!
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Body Paint
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Just Friends
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Odaxelagnia
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Free Choice
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Affirmation Play
Pussy Worship
Orgasm Denial
Knockturn Alley
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Spanking
Forced Proximity
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nukenai · 8 months
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Something very weird happened on Sunday. Talk of animal death... as usual lately.
It was what felt like the first real day after losing Zero. The past 30 or so hours had been a complete nightmare. I was in bed just scrolling on my phone on facebook.
I saw a post in my local horse group about something. I saw posts about that kind of thing a lot, but this time I just sorta went. Huh.
Then my dad called to check on me again. He had called me a lot in that short time. We were chatting, he just wanted to know how I was hanging in there and if I could do anything.
Then he asked me what I was planning. If I knew if I was going to get another dog. He told me he knows Samoyeds aren't cheap, and even sheepishly said if I wanted to get another one, that he could help me out.
I'd been thinking about it for a while. The conclusion I came to was... well, of course I wanted to get another dog. I'd been preparing my house for a puppy since february. I have a house full of puppy supplies. But, I don't want another Samoyed right now. First of all the cost, which wasn't really something I discussed with the breeder because refunds are just not... usually a thing, you know, and it's a rough topic to bring up because she's very upset too (she spent 9 weeks with those puppies, literally raised them from birth... so yeah). But, I'm not prepared to spend that amount a second time right now. Maybe sometime in the future, maybe after Striker passes, I'll want a Samoyed again. But I think it would maybe cause a bit too much pain to have one so soon.
But not just another dog in general. People get very judgmental about grief... I understand that people want to say, "don't rush into anything" after something happens. But I feel like that makes more sense when you, say, lose an older dog to age or illness. Because maybe getting a brand new dog after spending so much time with your one dog would be very hard on your soul.
But I went through the loss of a puppy. Of course I was attached to Zero, and loved him with all my heart and soul for the just-under-a-week I had him. But it's different. I had spent so much time preparing, and now there's just this terrible void where all my efforts had been.
And, well. I do stupid things in my life. Sometimes things don't work out. But there's always a way to remedy the situation. Say I got a dog but it wound up making everything so much worse. I'd either contact that person I got him from, or find someone else to take him. Whatever. Life will work out. It is literally never the end of the world to like, get a dog when you're slightly underprepared. There would be another home for him.
The post I saw on facebook was for a corgi puppy. Corgis are not really dogs I actively considered. Of course they're cute as fuck, but I kept telling myself, "no more herding breeds" on principle from how difficult Striker has been. But the ad was for ONE corgi puppy. Just one. Not a whole litter.
I thought, at the very least, it couldn't possibly hurt just to reach out and see what's up. See how much he was, that sort of thing.
So I get on the phone with this woman. She sold a litter of puppies for friends of hers with purebred corgis who bred them. The price was... honestly, astonishing, and felt like a red flag, because she only wanted $425 for him. I asked her, politely, why. Her response was: "I'm doing what they told me to. They sell their dogs only as pets, and they think it's ridiculous to charge upwards of $2,000 for a dog that isn't going into a show ring. Doesn't matter if they have show lines, the majority of people just want a companion. So I'm doing what they say."
I found that... admirable, honestly. So I asked why just he was available.
He was supposed to be picked up that morning. A woman had claimed him a couple weeks ago, the whole litter had sold instantly. But that morning, the woman's horse suddenly colicked and died, out of nowhere. She was devastated and said she wanted to hold off on a puppy for now.
I was so shocked. What a weekend of horrible tragedies. I'm not really a superstitious person, but that just felt so odd that this one puppy would become available, and I would see the post right as I'm scrolling facebook, and it was because someone else tragically lost a beloved pet.
He wasn't that far away, a 45 minute drive. So I thought, well, it can't hurt to go see him.
I had told the woman what happened with Zero. She offered such condolences and assured me it was a freak accident. I told her I was worried about judgment if I got another dog. She told me, "You can't worry about other people. You have to do what's right for you."
We exchanged stories about animal tragedies. Her husband's horse dropped dead when they ran out to Tractor Supply for 20 minutes. A friend of hers accidentally kicked their new puppy who was hidden in a dark hallway, because she walked with a limp, and the dog was killed instantly.
Horrible, freak things happen. Sometimes it's our fault, sometimes not, but we didn't MEAN for them to happen. Maybe they could've been prevented. Maybe not. Literally all we can do is keep moving forward in our lives, the way that feels right. Sometimes the universe turns in cruel, awful ways. But it'll keep turning, so it's up to you whether you look backwards or forwards.
This woman also had had corgis, she told me only recently she had to put her old female down due to cancer. She sang their praises.
I know this post is 40,000 words long but. i've been through a lot you have to be fucking nice to me. The culmination of it all is that yeah, I took him home. If he had been much more expensive than that, I wouldn't have.
Sometimes weird shit happens. Maybe it's a "sign", maybe not. But I do know that I went from staring at an empty dog crate full of un-played with toys stuffed into the corner of my office, to watching those toys be played with again, and getting up in the morning to open the crate door to let a dog outside.
The little one doesn't have a name yet, and this is technically the fourth day I've had him. It's pretty hard, but I know I'll get there. There's no rush, he has no idea what's going on right now anyways. I do feel like I made the right decision for myself, and I don't need to listen to any judgment. No one has been anything but kind, loving, and sympathetic to me, so I have no reason to think I'd have people being nasty behind my back. I guess I'm just traumatized from the 2 times people were weird to me about having a horse!
Anyways. Check out this little man. Whatever his name will be...
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fellowshipofthenoodles · 10 months
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Ello, I just found your page after looking through the cali King tag and was wondering if you have any tips on the breeding process/what to do with eggs? (like incubation temp, special info ect..) I'm asking because I was thinking of getting another noodle eventually to try and bread and also just to have a new baby, but I don't want to even touch any of that without knowing what I can on cali king breading since Google is a bit hard getting info out of- its Allright if you don't know! (Ps, your noodles and geckos are so damn cuteee- have a picture of my girl checkers glareing at me for cleaning her enclosure)
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Hey sorry for the late reply!
We don't really know a huge amount about breeding or incubating for any species since we're a pet-only home for our creatures so we don't tend to look much into it all
The only thing I can tell you is to be very careful and keep an eye on both snakes when you put them in together. Kingsnakes are well known for eating other snakes, including other kings. Many people breeding Kings come to groups on Facebook to say that one snake ate the other because they looked away for slightly too long. So it's a risky thing to do!
I'd search social media for breeders of kingsnakes for more advice though 😊
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supurrb · 1 year
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where’d you get your cats? I’m looking into getting a ragdoll
that is something you will need to deep dive into yourself my friend! in the sense of like, i got into touch with local breeders, versus idk the people who ship everywhere. here are some tips though!
reach out on local Facebook groups! i know we all hate Facebook but i’ve found some great communities for the Pacific Northwest (where I am) that were kind and informative regarding catteries they went to, breeders to avoid, and their recommendations.
when you find a breeder, do your research! do they have a public list of people who bought from them, and can those people verify they purchased an animal that wasn’t sick, had any genetic issues, and was taken care of? was the breeder up front and honest about the pedigree and provided papers? were they clear on genetic testing they did?
a good cattery will test their breeding pairs for genetic issues, and be upfront with you regarding any potential issues. ragdolls have a history of heart disease and it is important to know potential risks.
local catteries are ideal so that you can go in person and verify the conditions of the cats! an ethical cattery is breeding to enhance the standards of the breed and not to pump out cats to sell. look at how many litters a year they have, how many breeding pairs they have, and be wary of any cattery that is pumping out nonstop kittens. i had to be on a waiting list for my boys because my cattery was careful in their breeding selections, timelines, and ensuring none of their cats were stressed.
check if your cattery attends cat shows! this is another good way to verify that the cattery is legit and invested in the betterment of the breed versus making quick money. they should be breeding to enhance the quality of their animals, and by taking them to shows, they’re demonstrating their investment in this. catteries are NOT a viable business and should be regarded as a passion project. ragdolls are very expensive, but this is often due to the labor and costs that goes into maintaining a breed. which leads to next point…
if it’s too good to be true, it is! don’t trust super low price points. if a ragdoll is being sold for $200 a pop, it’s a scam. ragdolls are pricey and range in the thousands. so be financially prepared!
everybody has different opinions on the ethics of buying from a cattery, but my ultimate opinion is to go for what works best for you. i got ragdolls because i love their temperament, their minimal-brushing fur (as in no matting, they shed like hell), and their cuddly personalities. i also wanted to know their genetic background just in case something occurs health-wise. my first cat was a random kitten from an oopsie litter and while i love her dearly and miss her every day, i wish i had known more about her genetic history so i may have been more prepared for her cancer, and perhaps started early preventive treatment.
all in all, research!! research a Ton!! take your time and be sure you are ready for a new life and all the responsibility that comes with it!
**edit** thank you @speedsketch for reminding me of a point I forgot to add (i’m at work and spacey rn lol) is that you can also find purebred kitties like ragdolls at rescues as well! sometimes you can even find a breed-specific rescue locally!! rescue cats, purebred or otherwise, are just as wonderful companions, and can be an ideal compromise if the financial cost of buying from a cattery is too much. it never hurts to check your local rescue first!
on a similar note, ragdolls are determined ultimately by pedigree paperwork, and cannot be simply declared a ragdoll by looks alone, as that’s just the nature of purebred cats. if you don’t care about papers, definitely look at your local rescues! i see kittens all the time that look like ragdolls and have the characteristics and may even be ragdoll mixes. when i have the space, i also intend to be getting some more shelter kitties to join my family!
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sassyhazelowl · 1 year
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I'm in a lot of quail groups on facebook and there's been a huge push towards "breeding for temperament" aka culling any quail that doesn't behave like a potato. Your set up is bad and the birds are nervous? Cull. Its breeding season and you have too many pushy roosters harassing the hens and they retaliate? Cull. A bird pecks at another bird (natural instinct to peck at red) because it accidentally cut itself and is bleeding? Cull. You've stuffed too many birds in a small space and there's nowhere for the bottom birds to escape the top birds? Cull. You didn't put enough hides in and one of the birds is being territorial about the limited resources? Cull. Chick is 'too aggressive' in the brooder? Cull. I do imagine that overtime you will get more docile quail, for sure. And if they're going to cram them in like sadines, it is probably better for the birds to behave like potatoes. But I just find it interesting that the entire focus of "improving the animal" is really based on making the animal not an animal. Because animals and animal behavior is inconvenient for humans.
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homeofhousechickens · 2 years
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Do you have any tips for finding good chicken breeders? I know the big name hatcheries are bad, but I'm not sure how to tell if smaller breeders have good practices or are just churning out birds from hatchery stock. Thank you!
Research and ask them questions.
A good breeder should be able to tell you where they got their foundation birds. For example my serama are from Tammy Cappuccino (probs spelled her name wrong) and Princess Cream is from my friend Amanda and HER foundation stock was from another breeder named Morgan. If they have been breeding for over 10 years their birds are usually their line own at that point.
See how i know all these people who i got my birds from? Because i know those people we can communicate about the health of their lines. Tammys birds dont have the best type but she has birds who have lived over 10 years in her line and that matters alot to me.
Dont be afraid to ask what they select for and shy away from breeders who choose aesthetics and type over over health.
Ask them how they keep their birds and ask to see their set up.
The easiest way to find chicken breeders is looking through facebook and chicken forums in my opinion.
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titobarkvillier · 1 year
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I need to venttttt. Hi oilers fan here but I saw an isles blogger posting a racist ask she received after her comments bout game 2. the sad thing is what she was saying is true. the comments made me sick. as a community we need to do better than this
WHAT
i havent seen the ask so i dont know what exactly it said, but hockey especially is a breeding ground for racism and other hate speech/actions. its a white man’s sport more than any other, and the violent parts of it are what draw in an especially icky crowd. it sucks. not only that, but playoffs heighten every emotion. that’s absolutely disgusting to hear, im so sorry to whoever got that ask.
that being said, im a little surprised something like that happened on tumblr, since hockeyblr seems to be filled with mostly chill people and not disgusting toxicity you get on sports socials like twitter/facebook/etc. its disgusting. its why i migrated here after years of just silently scrolling twitter, because there seemed to be more of a community happening here. i guess not. shitty people will be shitty people anywhere if given the chance.
people talk shit about teams all the time, especially when angry. that doesnt justify racist comments? that racist anon needs to grow the fuck up. its a sport and these are grown men playing a game we have literally no stakes in. its entertainment; if youre not entertained, dont go around being a piece of shit to someone online. go to twitter if you wanna pick fights then, hockeyblr doesnt want you.
the kicker is they mustve went searching for isles fans, unless they were following that blogger before. still, if their racism is triggered by someone being upset about their/another team, why didnt they just keep scrolling? mute islanders tags? come on now. tumblr is structured to only show you what you want to see. dont seek out people to be a dick. they shouldve shut their phone off and done some breathing exercises if some random stan account on a website is making them piss their pants with rage.
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