Windy hill chickens - first flock(s) of my own

[Mother of Chaos]

Some of the wild water they drink is more like compost tea...

Afternoon snack and early supper are basically the same thing this time of year. Sunset today was at 15:19 (it actually disappears behind the hill a while before that), although they don't go to roost until almost an hour later.

Whoa, wait, I just read again: your sunset is at 3:19 in the afternoon? Yikes!

 

[kattabelly]

Whoa, wait, I just read again: your sunset is at 3:19 in the afternoon? Yikes!

It's at 3:19pm if there isn't a hill in between you and the point where the sun meets the horizon Technically the sun stops being visible from the chicken plot at some time before 3pm.

We're stuck with this ridiculous daylight savings nonsense because apparently no one has realised that even Scottish farmers have electric lights nowadays and they're not just sat in bed twiddling their thumbs until the sun comes up.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

It's at 3:19pm if there isn't a hill in between you and the point where the sun meets the horizon Technically the sun stops being visible from the chicken plot at some time before 3pm.

We're stuck with this ridiculous daylight savings nonsense because apparently no one has realised that even Scottish farmers have electric lights nowadays and they're not just sat in bed twiddling their thumbs until the sun comes up.

I have to admit that I dread when we finally stop doing DST, because that means that in the spring, I will have to drag my patootie out to the coop at an insanely early clock time, because the birds don’t care at all about clock time. Just when the sun comes up.

 

[kattabelly]

I have to admit that I dread when we finally stop doing DST, because that means that in the spring, I will have to drag my patootie out to the coop at an insanely early clock time, because the birds don’t care at all about clock time. Just when the sun comes up.

I'd much rather BST (summer time) all year round! I'm already getting up and going out in the dark during the winter, so an extra hour of daylight in the afternoon would be more useful.

Once the days get past a certain length, the chickens tend to ignore sunrise and sunset times here.