Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[rural mouse]

Jess pulled most of the straw around herself by closing time. The rest of them kicked most of the straw out of the boxes. I need to remember this. They cleaned the boxes for me.

 

[MaryJanet]

Haha that's hilarious I kept Getty alerts with squirrels and snow... I finally had to disable the alerts. Did you get any screen captures of your snugglers ?

No. It didn't seem especially noteworthy.

 

[MaryJanet]

Crikey has there been a break in into your kitchen. Look there's a gang of them and they look really mean

That's the back porch. The hens spend a lot of time there.

 

[RoyalChick]

The cameras hold 4GB of video (roughly a fortnight of recordings) which I can play with the app and download to my phone if ever I need to keep one longer term. Once the 4GB is used up it loops back to the beginning of its memory and starts over writing old videos with new.

It doesn't store video for every minute of the day, only when it detects motion and there's an additional setting that turns on pattern recognition so only videos of human shapes are recorded. However, like all automated pattern recognition, it's only as accurate as its training data which evidently did not include two hens snoozing side by side. It keeps labelling two feathery snugglers as "human".

I have the back porch camera set to record and alert me to any motion and the front cameras to record and alert me to human motion.

My cameras regularly mistake a chucken for a vehicle!

 

[LaFemmeKatia]

Yup, she is. I can see just a bit of black behind Betty (kinda underneath her to where the far end of the roost would be.) If you look between Betty's fluffy front undercarriage and where her fluffy leg/side feathers are behind the roost...that slight gap of 'fluff' shows some of Phyllis' black.

Yes, I had to enlarge the pic to be sure...lol

I see it too!!!

 

[LaFemmeKatia]

Sure! Here are the pics...

(1) jet...ayam cemani x easter egger
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(2) Romeo...Bb red old english game bantam
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(3) buddy...ayam cemani x easter egger
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(4) boomer...Rhode island red x blue laced red Wyandotte
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Edited...

You have beautiful roosters!

 

[LaFemmeKatia]

The Results Are In

Forget about that silly ground hog who is never right. Pennsylvania Phyllis has made her prediction. What does she say? See Below.

Spoiler: Early Spring or Long Winter

Pennsylvania Phyllis emerged from her coop and does NOT see her shadow. Only 4 more weeks of winter.
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I was waiting on Phyllis’s weather report, because that rodent in PA is bogus!
I happen to be in PA for a week or two of skiing and grandkids, and no way did that oversized rat see his shadow unless they shined a light on him! The sun wasn’t even out that day!

 

[featherhead007]

“Daddy, you got treats?”

 

[BY Bob]

All over the map here, we had rain, sleet, wet snow, rain, ice pellets, rain, wet snow.... Finally went below freezing now just snow. Right royal mess for tomorrow.

That sounds miserable.

 

[BY Bob]

Oh!!! That starts like a trill, but ends more like the way Bridge calls me quite often. Usually it seems to mean she wants something, like an escort back to her flock, or lately, I take her down from the roost. Maybe Phyllis is asking you for something?

I always think that she wants something but I can't figure out what. But it is how she gets my attention for sure.