Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[ChicoryBlue]

Motto... it's h3ll to get old A prayer would be much appreciated/sent from all w/ good vibes

You got it!

 

[rural mouse]

The raspberries are throwing up suckers all over without any encouragement and I'm chucking overripe blackberries and other soft fruit all around the place and poking in cuttings. I have a fair amount of experience of working in permaculture, food forest type settings though my work as a gardener

See if you can seed start some oaks, beaches, junipers, or conifers that way too.

 

[rural mouse]

I also feed 20 percent but always worry it's too high. Do y'all think it's good?

Mine are on 20% year round and still try to raid the cat food.

 

[Ponypoor]

TY ~ it's dental surgery... remove the broken off tooth roots & implant a fake bone, go home for 3 months to heal, then there will be enough bone for an implant molar. I had MRI scan for possible neck surgery too but got to tackle one surgery at a time. Had to postpone arm therapy to take care of the mouth 1st.

TG that DH can manage the chickens. I've missed way too much w/them these last couple yrs.

Motto... it's h3ll to get old A prayer would be much appreciated/sent from all w/ good vibes

Oh! That’s right! Your tooth- so glad it’s not the arm

Getting old is not for the faint of heart!

 

[BY Bob]

Happy Monday Everyone

What are they eating in there?

 

[Ponypoor]

See if you can seed start some oaks, beaches, junipers, or conifers that way too.

I think that @kattabelly wouldn’t be permitted to make changes to the allotment, as it isn’t private property.

With allotments here there are very strict by-laws as to what can be grown, fencing, use of growing tunnels…. I have never heard of being allowed poultry here on allotments though.

 

[Ponypoor]

Happy Monday Everyone

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What are they eating in there?

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Awwww they are gorgeous! I love Tilly’s topknot! It’s magnificent!

 

[bgmathteach]

So thinking about Bob’s Niamh’s roosting I was reminded of the Roovolution podcast episode I just listened to. Have you heard these theories or research? I have heard only some.

What do you think of this information?

First claim, that one eye is nearsighted and the other farsighted. You will see a chicken consistently looking at the ground things with the nearsighted eye and further things, like the sky, with the farsighted eye. They can do both at once. Seems to me we would be seeing a consistent tilt of the head.

Second claim, that in roosting, because they can do this unispheric sleeping, sleeping with just one half of their brain, they keep one eye relatively active, which will be the outside eye, the one facing away from the main group roosting, to be able to see a predator as soon as possible.

Third claim, in order to give the other half of the brain a sleep time, they’ll turn around while on the roost so that the first eye is now facing in and the other out. (If this is true, maybe this accounts for falling off the roost?)

Third +1/2 claim, this is one reason there is competition for the inner roosting spots, the coveted safer places, because there’s less urgency to keep a lookout, and - I’m not sure I remember this right - I think they said that in the inner roosting spots they can then have periods where they let both sides of their brain sleep at the same time.

I have heard/read most of this in the past. I do notice my geese always look at the sky with their right eye. Chickens move around too much, I don't really know that I have confirmed that it is consistent.

I definitely have read in multiple places about the 'sleep with one half the brain/eye closed, the other half alert.' Might have been why @RoyalChick 's Bernie liked the wall spot on the prime roost!

Edited to add:
some articles on chicken vision:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1084952119302368

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0149763495000240

 

[RoyalChick]

Happy Monday
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[notabitail]

Happy Monday
Mugshot from Pooh
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Wrong day. It's Friday.