Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Maybe choose a different sport....on TV, it looks like they're throwing white eggs around...and with his daddy instincts...

Forget about golf! Can you imagine Curly seeing that golf ball?! She would run over throw herself down on top of it and protect it from all!

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

I admire your fortitude there @RebeccaBoyd , good for you for NOT letting a good broody go to waste

Any more go broody, I'm shipping them to Canada. Chiquita excluded, I'll deal with her. I have more then enough broody hens and you have too little.

 

[Ponypoor]

I am not a radio station where you can make requests. I also do not have an effective video solution at this time. No videos for the foreseeable future.

I too am looking for a better video storage/display solution from YouTube.

I want To download a bunch of mine before hand though- like the Fluffy vs Snake and Blanches Belly Dancing

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

I think with my broody complaints some tax is in order.
They are growing up.

 

[Ponypoor]

I think they can see the red light of the camera. Chickens can see ultraviolet light, whose wavelengths are shorter than visible light; I am not sure they can see infrared light - their wavelengths are longer than visible light.

This study says they can see roughly 419 - 570 nm

Ultraviolet light wavelengths run from 100 - 400 nm
Infrared light wavelengths run from 780nm - 1mm

This article on BYC is much easier reading, but less technical.

If anyone has more info, I would love to know more about their eyesight. The first article is pretty comprehensive in evaluation, but is also pretty technically written. I can follow the gist of it, but there are a few things that I just shrugged my shoulders on.

This is interesting esp the part about the left vs right eye and vision

https://www.val-co.com/10-interesting-facts-chicken-vision/

 

[Ponypoor]

Another Surprise Gift
I remain dumbfounded. The postmark was canceled in Hershey. I have no idea who is doing this.

Postmark
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Return address
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the card....
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Oooo and those kitty paw prints so cute

 

[Ponypoor]

I think with my broody complaints some tax is in order.
They are growing up.
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Wow they are little ladies now so elegant

 

[Ponypoor]

New Sleeping Place?
Hattie has joined Phyllis in the Cluckle Hut the last 4 nights. Is she more comfortable there?

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I love that they have choices.

 

[Ponypoor]

I don't have an official count but there's 4 mama's with about 4 chicks each. There's a group of barred rock chicks with a white frizzle, another group with a mixed bag of chicks, our group of juvenile Silky crosses. The one BR/Silky cross rooster and his 2 beautiful sisters will be joining Viajito's tribe. One rooster will be joining Red's tribe, along with a couple of young hens. Probably give a couple of naked neck girls to Big Boy's tribe to replace Goldie. Goldie and Itty Bitty will be joining together in a soon to be built tractor.

That’s quite a group! How is Goldie doing?

 

[RoyalChick]

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!

This is one of those topics I got obsessed about a while back.
Infrared describes a range of wavelengths, and chickens can see some but not all of infrared.
Now try and find the wavelength your cameras use - not so easy. Basically they can see the lights in some cameras not all.
I did have references for the wavelengths chickens can see but I didn’t save them and am on the plane waiting to take off so won’t try and look now.