Ribh's D'Coopage

[rjohns39]

Sue got these just a couple minutes ago...

 

[BY Bob]

This is a much more peaceful roosting event than last night's fiasco. I arrived a little later but the same 3 girls as last night were all still outside. Lottie is usually first to roost. She likes that left hand corner. Tuppence is often beside her. They are my lowest ranking hens. Luna will often 1/2 spread her wings for lower ranking hens to shelter under if there's a lot of pecking going on. She is such a stable influence in the flock! And Lavender always carries on like a raving lunatic ~ though she got herself up & settled with far less fuss & bother than usual.

That seemed like pretty calm roosting to me. I love your final message to them. I hope they listened.

 

[BY Bob]

Sue got these just a couple minutes ago...
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Beautiful! Love those colors.

 

[Shadrach]

I'm very proud of myself. I sat down with the camera and can you believe the instruction manual and got to know my camera a bit. It does some pretty neat stuff. One thing that I wanted but didn't think it could to is take sequential shots ( two or three choices of time interval) which I had a go with this afternoon.
I wanted to show how I pick up roosters and chicks and how to hold them. At video speed it's quite hard to see the exact hand placement and with chicks it's easy to miss the fact that the chicks feet are in my palm. I can do this with sequential shots.
I just need someone to hold the camera now.

 

[Ribh]

Sue got these just a couple minutes ago...
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These are lovely Sue! You must be so happy with your new camera!

 

[Ribh]

That seemed like pretty calm roosting to me. I love your final message to them. I hope they listened.

It was very calm last night, Bob. The night before I had someone trying to walk across the top of everyone & lots of pecking, squawking, flapping & mind changing. And no, they listen but they don't obey!

 

[Ribh]

I'm very proud of myself. I sat down with the camera and can you believe the instruction manual and got to know my camera a bit. It does some pretty neat stuff. One thing that I wanted but didn't think it could to is take sequential shots ( two or three choices of time interval) which I had a go with this afternoon.
I wanted to show how I pick up roosters and chicks and how to hold them. At video speed it's quite hard to see the exact hand placement and with chicks it's easy to miss the fact that the chicks feet are in my palm. I can do this with sequential shots.
I just need someone to hold the camera now.

I'd offer but....
I had a look @ my manual yesterday too but I don't think I'm any wiser. It may as well be in Chinese for all the sense it made to me. I think I will resort to my youngest who is really tech savvy.

 

[MaryJanet]

I'm very proud of myself. I sat down with the camera and can you believe the instruction manual and got to know my camera a bit. It does some pretty neat stuff. One thing that I wanted but didn't think it could to is take sequential shots ( two or three choices of time interval) which I had a go with this afternoon.
I wanted to show how I pick up roosters and chicks and how to hold them. At video speed it's quite hard to see the exact hand placement and with chicks it's easy to miss the fact that the chicks feet are in my palm. I can do this with sequential shots.
I just need someone to hold the camera now.

I'd offer but....
I had a look @ my manual yesterday too but I don't think I'm any wiser. It may as well be in Chinese for all the sense it made to me. I think I will resort to my youngest who is really tech savvy.

It strkes me as odd that vendors still provide paper manuals. They'd do much better at supporting customers with a set of instructional videos on YouTube. Then all they need to provide in the box is one page that says "Thanks for buying AwesomeCam! We've got some videos on YouTube, start off with Getting to know your awesome camera. Here's the address: ...."

On the flip side they could list the video titles with adresses.

I guess paper is cheaper? Seems like video would have a higher roi but also a higher production cost.

Anyone who takes on reafing a manual these days has my respect. That's a big effort. Takes a lot of time too.

 

[Ribh]

It strkes me as odd that vendors still provide paper manuals. They'd do much better at supporting customers with a set of instructional videos on YouTube. Then all they need to provide in the box is one page that says "Thanks for buying AwesomeCam! We've got some videos on YouTube, start off with Getting to know your awesome camera. Here's the address: ...."

On the flip side they could list the video titles with adresses.

I guess paper is cheaper? Seems like video would have a higher roi but also a higher production cost.

lol No paper here. It's all on line & just as useless!
I would do so much better with a video ~ in slow motion!

 

[MaryJanet]

Yeh, I think the phone people are providing online manuals. But video would be even better.