Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[micstrachan]

Just went out to get some monday mugs for you all.
Basil
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Blueberry
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Creamy
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Raven was being uncooperative, all she wants to do is eat.
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little Corona. I may finally get a hen with complete copper hackles.
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Poppy, there is eyeballs somewhere in that floof.
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Bubba
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Blue 1 and 2
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and my boy Branch
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Amazing! Looks like you’re using a real camera? I need to get mine out and start practicing!

 

[BY Bob]

Oh good grief. That is heart-stopping!
Maybe you could deploy Shad's idea of the wire on FBA itself, not just the fence around the yard.

It's an idea. They were locked in for the entire weekend. With the rain I though I would just keep them dry. I thought that might change its mind. I just don't know right now. It's seems like morning is the time for this hawk. Assuming it is the same one.

 

[BY Bob]

I found scratches on my coops paint. That is worrying me

What kind of scratches? Pictures please.

 

[BY Bob]

I get them at our local feed store.

I need to find some for my ladies this winter. That would help with boredom.

 

[BY Bob]

Mugs Monday
compliments of Little Mill & Sunshine
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Beautiful.

 

[Shadrach]

Seems like there is conflicting data: visual and auditory. Very small study, but:
(Robins) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S000334729690411X

(Magpies) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003347281801121

I can't find the referenced study regarding visual, but this is a very detailed article on bird vision:
https://www.researchgate.net/profil.../5a1c4c250f7e9bd1be5c5cc6/Vision-in-Birds.pdf

Chickens can see more light frequencies. I just cant find the study atm.

 

[BY Bob]

Yikes, Bob!

This one is very persistent. Only after the littles it seems though. Maybe the others are too big for it.

 

[BY Bob]

Scary! The littles need to learn to tilt their head up so they can see beyond the poof !!

Or listen to the bigs, but the alert sound is so quiet not being with the others they may not hear it.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Amazing! Looks like you’re using a real camera? I need to get mine out and start practicing!

Yes I use my 10 year old Nikon Coolpix. I know cellphone camera's have came a long way but I can NEVER get a good shot using a cell phone. I don't want to jinx it, but I will cry the day that camera bites the dust.

 

[Shadrach]

I think deer should pay their own way, like my chickens do!
Note this payment:
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They probably do pay their own way it's just not in the usual capitalist understanding of pay.