Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[rural mouse]

I should probably rephrase that: As kids, has anyone ever considered taking your pet to school?

School spirit week: cowboy and Indian day. DH rode his horse to school. Principal was pissed. Had to figure out where to put the horse and provide water for the day (law, still on the books).

 

[bgmathteach]

I should probably rephrase that: As kids, has anyone ever considered taking your pet to school?

Mary did!
(Mary had a little lamb.)

Silliness tax:

The boy I wasn't planning on keeping.
He is tidbitting here. Glad HE changed my mind!

His 2nd in command:

Well camouflaged:

And, yes, I know, only the first picture counts for tax!

 

[bgmathteach]

Caturday...View attachment 3476847Newest video gaming accessory

You know, heated seats in cars are all the rage now. Guess the kitty thought your son needed a heated seat for better gaming performance!

 

[ValarieF]

Wow i haven't seen hail in awhile. Was gonna go feed the chooks. I'll let hubby do it lol.

 

[rural mouse]

You know, heated seats in cars are all the rage now. Guess the kitty thought your son needed a heated seat for better gaming performance!

Castor missed the seat then. I'm thinking it was a heating pad for his back. He even stayed the requisite 20 min.

 

[lightm]

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Fluffy butt?

 

[Ponypoor]

Caturday Saturday

Good morning all, it’s a miserable rainy day here and Missy is stuck inside boohoo…

 

[ChicoryBlue]

My cameras (Reolink) like all cameras out there are PTP (peer to peer), this means that the cameras are only activated when the application you use to view and control the camera is started and you make a camera selection. They don’t constantly stream unless you have the application running - I have many times forgotten I have my cameras running - this is a bad thing of you have limited data as I do.

If your cams and app support multiple displays you can view as many as the app supports. In my case I can view all 9 of my cameras at once.

One thing I do with my cams is to lower the bite rate and frame rate to the lowest I can so that the amount of data being sent doesn’t overwhelm my slower internet and set amount of data. Tonight I have pretty good speed for my internet (6.43mbps download, and 3.5bps upload), but this is still considered slow for this day and age.

For IR (infra red lighting for dark), there are basically 2 wavelengths in use: 850nm which is those red lights you see on cameras, and 940 which have no visible lights or n the camera, these would use for covert viewing in darkness.

This explains IR:
https://support.reolink.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011452574-Introduction-to-IR-Illumination/

Also with cameras there are various ways to power them and send the data for viewing.

PoE (power over Ethernet) in my opinion is by far the best way to power and view. The camera use one cable an Ethernet cable to both power and view the camera. There is never a lost signal, and only one cable to deal with which can run up to 330’.

WiFi cameras need a power cable to be run to the camera to power it. Data is sent to you router via wifi thus the camera cannot be too far from the router or go through to many walls.

Internet connection is another camera, this requires the camera to have a SIM card and a cellular data plan for the camera to function. These would be an option is you are too far from your router. This my least favourite type of camera.

If you are a far distance from your main router you would be better off using a wireless bridge such as I use to connect my barn office and all my cameras to the house where my router is.

This is also what I did for my nieces chicken coop, I put the wireless bridge receiver inside the coop with the camera (we ran a heavy gauge 100’ extension cable from the pool power supply outlet to the chicken coop for power), this all worked lovely but my sister was annoyed with having an Ethernet cable running to the wireless bridge transmitter at the house so we had to take the camera down.

Anyways I do not know if my chooks can see with the 85nm lighting or not, but for me it’s perfect for spying on them

Here is an article on chicken vision and what light they can see. They apparently cannot see the 850nm wavelength.

" The wavelength of visible light ranges from 400 nanometres (nm) to around 700 nm. Infrared light’s wavelength is longer than the light we can see, measuring above 700 nm. While humans can see in the range of 400–750 nm, chickens can see in the range of 315–750 nm. Additionally, chickens can see higher peaks at the spectrums of around 480 and 630 nm, said Rubinoff. "
https://www.thepoultrysite.com/articles/the-importance-of-lighting-in-poultry-production#:~:text=Infrared light's wavelength is longer,and 630 nm, said Rubinoff.

OK got some more information, but do the "nm" numbers in the "photoreceptors" section in the table below correlate with light frequency that we think they can see?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5653414/
@RoyalChick

Table 1​

Comparative Anatomy

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​	Gallus gallus Chickens​	Humans​	References​
Relative Size​	50% of cranial volume occupied by orbit	5% of cranial volume occupied by orbit	(Waldvogel, 1990)​
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Cornea​	Diameter: 9.1mm Thickness: 405µm 5 layers with true Bowman's layer Assists with accommodation	Diameter: 11.5–12.5mm Thickness: and 518–558µm 5 layers with true Bowman's layer Does not assist with accommodation	Chicken: (Fowler et al., 2004; Glasser et al., 1994; Jones et al., 2007; Kanski, 1994; Richey et al., 2011)​
Human: (Grewal et al., 2010; Rüfer et al., 2005)​
​
Sclera​	Scleral ossicles present Contains hyaline cartilage 2 layers, fibrous and cartilaginous	No scleral ossicles No hyaline cartilage layer	(Coulombre and Coulombre, 1973; Koch, 1973; Rada et al., 1991)​
​
Choroid​	Multi-layered, loosely cellular, and highly vascular tissue 250 µm mean global thickness	Multi-layered, loosely cellular, and highly vascular tissue Approx. 200 µm peripapillary thickness	Chicken: (Jones et al., 2007; Koch, 1973; Nava et al., 2016; Wood, 1917)​
Human: (Ho et al., 2011)​
​
Iris​	Striated muscle	Smooth muscle	(Koch, 1973)​
​
Lens​	Thickness: 3.5 mm Anterior Radius of curvature: 5.9 mm	Thickness: 3.9 mm Anterior Radius of curvature: 10.5 mm	Chicken: (Iribarren et al., 2014; Samuelson, 1991)​
Human: (Schachar, 2004)​
​
Photoreceptors​	LWS (571 nm), RH2 (508 nm), SWS2 (455 nm) SWS1 (415 nm), cone opsins* RH1 rod opsin Double cone present 3:2 cone to rod ratio overall Oil droplets present in cones Rod-free area centralis for highest visual acuity with highest cone density (approx. 15,000 to 36,000 cones/mm2) Approx. 350 µm thick at area centralis	2 LWS (L (558 nm), M (531 nm)), and SWS1 (419 nm) cone opsins** RH1 rod opsin No double cone 1:20 cone to rod ratio overall No oil droplets Rod-free fovea centralis for highest visual acuity with highest cone density (approx. 140,000 and 188,000 cones/mm2) Approx. 190 µm thick at fovea	Chicken: (Bowmaker, 2008; Bueno et al., 2011; Dartnall et al., 1983; Hart, 2001; Headington et al., 2011; Kram et al., 2010; Meyer and May, 1973; Nava et al., 2016; Okano et al., 1992)​
Human: (Bowmaker, 2008; Curcio et al., 1990; Jonas et al., 1992; Kashani et al., 2010; Okano et al., 1992; Wells-Gray et al., 2016)​
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Optic Nerve and Inner Retina​	Pecten oculi limits optic nerve head visualization Lamina cribrosa present Approx. 2.4 million ganglion cells in inner retina NIRG*** cell Bullwhip neuron	No pecten oculi Lamina cribrosa present Approx. 700,000 – 1.5 million ganglion cells in inner retina Unknown if NIRG cell (NIRG is present in nonhuman primates) Unknown if Bullwhip neuron	Chicken: (Fischer et al., 2005, 2010a, 2010b; Morcos and Chan-Ling, 2000; Rager and Rager, 1978)​
Human: (Curcio and Allen, 1990).​
​
Vasculature​	Retina is avascular Pecten oculi supplies nutrition and oxygen to inner retina via diffusion through the vitreous Choriocapillaris supplies outer retina	Retinal artery supplies the inner retina No pecten oculi Choriocapillaris supplies outer retina	(Jones et al., 2007; Waldvogel, 1990)​

 

[rural mouse]

Caturday Saturday

Good morning all, it’s a miserable rainy day here and Missy is stuck inside boohoo…
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We got that yesterday....in the form of snow (as usual), mostly melting on contact.

Indigo doing some exploring

Better perspective

And she jumped/flew down.

 

[Ponypoor]

I have been been quite busy this week, this is my first year of having a school age kiddo and there is quite a flurry of activities and projects and events to coordinate. My peaceful sitting with chickens and taking pictures time has been reduced significantly. But I did come across a crazy picture I had to share.
A chimera Rooster named Boomer from Two Moon Acres, he is a barred rock and a BCM literally. Genetics are amazing!
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Crazy feather patterns! Yes genetics are a lot of fun.

What is a BCM.