Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Wow, they are getting so big already!

And those fuzzy legs and feet!

Everyone is ok. I don't remember wind like this. It's usually constant on or constant off. Good thing I didn't fly my drone. It's not going in the air anytime soon.
Uh oh, I think I owe more tax. Tell me what you'd like to see.

Anything chicken

 

[Ponypoor]

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Read the primer link

 

[notabitail]

Read the primer link

I already did.

 

[notabitail]

And those fuzzy legs and feet!


Anything chicken

 

[ChicoryBlue]

I watched on the barn cam one night as Marty launched herself out into the abyss, it's pitch dark, it only looks bright because of the infra red light for cameras.

You ok Marty?!

But - you know - they can actually see infrared light so it's likely as bright for them as it looks to us on camera. I'm positive about this. The hens here notice the infrared light when I turn on a camera to check on them, they squint sometimes even, because it really WAS pitch-black prior to my rudely turning on the camera's infrared light.

Still, launching from five feet is gutsy. Dark or not it's a canyon's depth!

 

[notabitail]

But - you know - they can actually see infrared light so it's likely as bright for them as it looks to us on camera. I'm positive about this. The hens here notice the infrared light when I turn on a camera to check on them, they squint sometimes even, because it really WAS pitch-black prior to my rudely turning on the camera's infrared light.

Still, launching from five feet is gutsy. Dark or not it's a canyon's depth!

That would explain why @BY Bob 's chickens would wake up and eat in the dark at midnight.
If there is a bright LED on it maybe that is why they wake up as well.
I tried to get Abigail to react to a infrared light but she didn't.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

That would explain why @BY Bob 's chickens would wake up and eat in the dark at midnight.
If there is a bright LED on it maybe that is why they wake up as well.
I tried to get Abigail to react to a infrared light but she didn't.

Bob I just saw your post about answering your own chicken's questions....here we are chatting about you and your gang. But apologies anyway.

I don't think @BY Bob 's cameras are on 24/7, and he has a better idea about this, but I think the one hen who needs to eat gets up regardless. Maybe with the motion the camera comes on, if it's set to do that, and it helps her. But - mostly, I think she knows where to go, even in the pitch dark. She needs to eat so she's trained herself to do it blindly (blind people do this). But also it's likely there's some light - including IR light - from the moon, unless it's a new moon, and the neighborhood's outside lights and streetlights provide ambient light too.

 

[featherhead007]

I went to the coop one very early morning to greet Jaffar, who was crowing his Cochin head off. I replied with a stick and a metal trash can lid. (Like the Marine Corps does) Bang Bang went the drum !!

 

[notabitail]

Bob I just saw your post about answering your own chicken's questions....here we are chatting about you and your gang. But apologies anyway.

I don't think @BY Bob 's cameras are on 24/7, and he has a better idea about this, but I think the one hen who needs to eat gets up regardless. Maybe with the motion the camera comes on, if it's set to do that, and it helps her. But - mostly, I think she knows where to go, even in the pitch dark. She needs to eat so she's trained herself to do it blindly (blind people do this). But also it's likely there's some light - including IR light - from the moon, unless it's a new moon, and the neighborhood's outside lights and streetlights provide ambient light too.

I can generally get to where I need to in my house with minimal light and a sense of feel. If something has shifted or been moved into my walkway I'll notice because I'll bump into it.

 

[Ponypoor]

So am I. She is my only lap jumper.

Ok we need a term for a ‘jumps up and steals your toast and takes off running’ silkie….

Curly you dust mop give that back! What?! Really ?! I don’t want it now, all covered in horse dung

But - you know - they can actually see infrared light so it's likely as bright for them as it looks to us on camera. I'm positive about this. The hens here notice the infrared light when I turn on a camera to check on them, they squint sometimes even, because it really WAS pitch-black prior to my rudely turning on the camera's infrared light.

Still, launching from five feet is gutsy. Dark or not it's a canyon's depth!

Yes I think someone pointed that out to me before that they can see other spectrums of light that we cannot see.

Her leap was only 32” but still pretty high for a wee feather duster as Alex calls her

I can generally get to where I need to in my house with minimal light and a sense of feel. If something has shifted or been moved into my walkway I'll notice because I'll bump into it.

Yup that’s me also, like the time I parked the wheelbarrow in my pathway up to the barn, I easily found it even though it was pitch dark and incredibly foggy...

Owwww!

SHRA Tax for answering questions about my chickens........

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Oh how she doth gleam, a vision in white, the sky at night with the glowing moonbeam.