How Do You Go on Vacation?

[cmom]

I would spend the entire vacation staring at that screen and then screaming like a fanatic sports fan at everything that is happening. Does it have a speaker so if you scream the cameras 'speak' ? I would talk to the chickens all the time I was away.

They would probably complain it is an invasion of their privacy.

My cameras do record sound but only records the sound. No speaker for the sound to come out of the cameras. I have a friend from another state that comes to Florida in the winters. She had put some cameras in her mothers house so she could keep track of her (in case her mother should take a fall). Her mother passed away not long ago and the family is cleaning her house out having estate sales, and then they are going to get it ready to sell. People come into the house and she can access the cameras in video mode, watch them walking around and hear their conversations on her phone. She can't talk back to them but can hear them. Family members are there and they can call her or she can call them.

 

[Chickassan]

If I were to go on vacation i'd ask my neighbors to help.
Both sets owe me years of critter feeding credits.
Im the one who feeds their animals when they go on vacations.

 

[cmom]

I used to take care of my neighbors birds and critters. I didn't mind. Ask as neighbor.

 

[theoldchick]

I would spend the entire vacation staring at that screen and then screaming like a fanatic sports fan at everything that is happening. Does it have a speaker so if you scream the cameras 'speak' ? I would talk to the chickens all the time I was away.

They would probably complain it is an invasion of their privacy.

I don't spend time on vacation watching my phone. But I'm glad I have it if it's needed.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

I don't. I do sometimes leave for a few days, but my wife then picks up the slack.

That said, I **DO** have a pair of gravity fed, rainwater filled, 275 gal totes which provide water to my birds, so that's automatic, whether I'm here or not. and even if one fails, the other still works, so that's a concern I just don't have. Even three weeks of drought won't run one completely empty at the rate my flock consumes water. Four weeks might push the limits of a single tote.

I also have "J" style gravity fed feeders **WHICH I DO NOT USE**. If I were vacationing, I'd fill all three with pellet (crumble doesn't work in these, for a host of reasons) - that's more than 50# of food, good for maybe 5 days, perhaps 6 - and leave them stuck in their 900 sq ft run. and hope. When my wife is watching, she, like me, feeds about 3# (dry weight) of fermented mash each day, more in winter, and lets them free range any day its not raining cats and dogs.

I have one good neighbor I'd happily pay in dozens of eggs - or cash - but eggs would be better, to do the same, and I'd leave her a handful of 5 gallon buckets of ready-made mash for her use (I blend feeds from the local mill to get the protein % I want at decent price)

 

[rosemarythyme]

I would spend the entire vacation staring at that screen and then screaming like a fanatic sports fan at everything that is happening. Does it have a speaker so if you scream the cameras 'speak' ? I would talk to the chickens all the time I was away.

I could talk through my camera at the chickens if I wanted to, but we decided upon installation that that might be alarming to them at night, so I disabled it so it doesn't accidentally get toggled on at 11 PM.

 

[cmom]

What kind of camera do you have?

 

[rosemarythyme]

What kind of camera do you have?

Me? A Ring stick-up camera.

 

[cmom]

Yes it can be done with a ring camera. I forgot about those.

 

[chickendaddybill]

we work from home and one of our daughters works for us so shes always out here and knows the girls' routine. shes a lifesaver for sure.