Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[rural mouse]

No snood, no beard. That's a hen

 

[featherhead007]

I thought it was all about the snood. This one doesn’t have a dangling snood and therefore I assumed female.

I have a snood, my brother and three sisters have a snood. So what is so wrong with having that kind of revolving bank account?
Better than being a prood I guess

 

[Sylvester017]

Wow. No idea. I sort of assumed.
Young solo male maybe?

Looks like a hen to me…. But then again I didn’t zoom in on my phone…

When the bird turns around in the video it sort of uses a display of tail feathers to maintain balance. I don'i believe hens have big tail feathers?

 

[featherhead007]

Neighbor just called, wanted to go into town, I said it’s too hot for me, maybe early morning tomorrow. She said I need some things now. I gave her the number for Uber eats. It’s crazy hot here now! Crazy people too I guess !

 

[Sylvester017]

Head and neck look like a female turkey, maybe a very young male? The hens do have fans too, just less impressive.

I'm not a turkey owner and know nothing of wild turkeys either -- it just had such long colorful tail feathers it spread them as it turned around.

 

[rural mouse]

When the bird turns around in the video it sort of uses a display of tail feathers to maintain balance. I don'i believe hens have big tail feathers?

They do. The toms have more color and that really isn't a display. It isn't high enough or spread enough for anything but balance.

 

[featherhead007]

I'm not a turkey owner and know nothing of wild turkeys either -- it just had such long colorful tail feathers it spread them as it turned around.

Wild turkey? It’s on the liquor isle next to the southern comfort

 

[rural mouse]

Wild turkey

https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/wild-turkey

 

[Desertvalleychickens]

Brilliant!
I am thinking I might try something like that.

You should! It really helps.

Don’t worry they will learn to sit in front of it and enjoy the cool air

Hopefully. When I first put a fan in my coop, the chooks wouldn't go in until it was roosting time.

 

[Sylvester017]

Wild turkey

https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/wild-turkey

Looks like wild turkeys are like hummingbirds -- hard to distinguish females from the juvenile males until the males develop into adults.