Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

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Monday Mugs (late). Portraits of Popcorn!

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You caught a beautiful blue sheen in Eli’s feathers here! What great intense expressions they both have too!

You asked about getting the green sheen in photos, and I haven’t heard anyone chime in yet, and I can't find tips easily in searching online, so here’s the little I know.

I believe the greens and reds kind of go together, they are warm colors, and are opposite of the blues. I don’t know the physics but it works out that way. Outdoor light skews very blue due to the effect of water which filters for blue (thus our blue sky and blue ice, blue snow, etc). The more outdoor light gathered in the shot, the bluer it tends to be.

The software in your camera / phone / iPad is more important than the lens(es) these days since hardware quality has improved so much. My practical approach is to try to work with whatever “smarts” the camera is trying to implement, which might mean outfoxing it if you’re at odds with it.

So if there’s lots of browns, reds and greens in the shot, it tends to go warmer overall and enhance those colors. When it detects lots of blue and blue light it goes bluer and colder and enhances those colors. So a close-up picture of the Buckeyes is warmer than a further-away one. Notice the first mugshot of Popcorn above skews a little blue, versus the next one, which skews more green-red. The second is a downward, close shot and has green and shaded snow in the background. Cloudy days are great for getting nice feather details with the Buckeyes brown-red coloring. In fact, the prettiest shots are when they are in the shade under green leaves.

If you experiment I'd be interested in what you find out.

She is gorgeous. I just love Buckeyes, as you know.

 

[BY Bob]

Awwww. I cannot get over those Marshmallow legs. So orange!

Did someone say orange legs?

 

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Got a good photo of Max! He usually doesn’t approach me like this, but perhaps he felt friendly View attachment 3440317

Stunning! I didn’t know Toms could be so beautiful!

 

[BY Bob]

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet…

Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliette

Tax on ancient text
Mr P with his ladies
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I thought that was from a sonnet and not from a play....

I have the complete works here somewhere. I will need to check.

 

[BY Bob]

I thought that was from a sonnet and not from a play....

I have the complete works here somewhere. I will need to check.

Nope. I was wrong. Juliet says it. Sorry Ponypoor.

Sonnet 54 was close but not the same.

O how much more doth beauty beauteous seem,
By that sweet ornament which truth doth give!
The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem
For that sweet odour which doth in it live.
The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye
As the perfumed tincture of the roses,
Hang on such thorns and play as wantonly
When summer’s breath their masked buds discloses:
But, for their virtue only is their show,
They live unwoo’d and unrespected fade,
Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so;
Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made:
And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth,
When that shall fade, my verse distills your truth

 

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Sydney looks beautiful!

 

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That's a lot of Eggs for FBA
We were out of town Friday through Monday. JD did not collect the Eggs.

This is what I found this morning.

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ALL IN NEST BOX 3!

23 real, 3 fake, and 2 broken eggs.

Add in Betty's night poops while sleeping in the nest box with the broken eggs and you got a disgusting mess that had to be washed.

That's 25 Eggs in 4 days or 6 per day from 7 hens. We have never had so many eggs.

Amazing!!! I am getting about three or four eggs a day. But I only have three hens under gour years old and only Roxy is laying of the over six year olds.

 

[micstrachan]

Here is the ridiculous video!

Hilarious!!! I have found two of mine, who are all standard sized, in the same as box before. I don’t understand why they do that. I’ll have to get a video next time.

 

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Eli’s egg problems are not yet over
She got a bit stuck with another huge egg - just over 3oz - although it was less difficult than the last one.
I do fear for her and am continuing to talk to vets about the implant possibilities.

Poor Eli. Could it be that she just has to sort things out? It’s great that hormones are an option, but I wonder if you should wait a bit and see if she gets things under control. However, if it’s going to kill her, I would definitely do an implant.

 

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Baby silkies
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Precious!