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.

 

[kattabelly]

Raining in two, sometimes three, directions at the same time when I went up this morning. Harbour was clocking wind at 40 gusting 55mph earlier, so probably a fair bit more up on the hill.

Chicks came outside for about 60 seconds and made it quite clear that they were going back to the greenhouse with or without their mum. Everyone else is mostly staying in there too, which is a good thing in a way as it's forcing the integration issue with all the different age groups. The two younger Rock pullets (Dolly, and Dotty for the one with a few black non-barred feathers, seem to fit since their older sister is Polly) are becoming much less skittish after watching the others eating from my hands and asking to be petted or for lap/shoulder time. Weather settled down just as it was getting dark, but opening up the front gate was enough of a novelty to get them out on the field for a few minutes.

Tried to give the tappitest twosome yet another haircut (how does it keep growing back even when they aren't moulting?!) and now the wheaten one is running around with a kind of asymmetric mohawk after getting fed up once I'd done the first side

 

[BDutch]

Tried to give the tappitest twosome yet another haircut (how does it keep growing back even when they aren't moulting?!) and now the wheaten one is running around with a kind of asymmetric mohawk after getting fed up once I'd done the first side

I really like to see this.

 

[kattabelly]

I really like to see this.

I'll try to remember to take a photo before I finish it tomorrow. Although I usually make such a mess of their "haircuts" that I probably shouldn't post pictures online in case I get done for animal cruelty