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The Sebrights are my most skittish but they are still very sweet girls. All of my chooks are very loving, though the top hen (one of my production reds) will occasionally give your ankle a gentle peck to demand whatever you have. They all love getting pets and treats though and will snuggle up close to me
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freeedr posted:The Sebrights are my most skittish but they are still very sweet girls. All of my chooks are very loving, though the top hen (one of my production reds) will occasionally give your ankle a gentle peck to demand whatever you have. They all love getting pets and treats though and will snuggle up close to me good birds
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Nov 16, 2021 00:32
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 this was the last image recovered off of old farmer John’s phone. RIP
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Nov 16, 2021 03:02
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Well, our rooster has chased off our big barred rock rooster we wanted to keep to replace him and we can't find him so now we've stuck in him his own coop with food and water to let he other rooster take his place. Hope the other turns up but I don't have any real hope for him being alive still.
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Nov 16, 2021 05:20
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freeedr posted:
Giving me flashbacks here! A couple of years ago that bitch Kennedy peck me right in the eyeball. But it got me a bottle of percocet and out of our end of year meeting, so not a total bad experience. Would not repeat, though.
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Nov 16, 2021 17:00
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Nov 17, 2021 08:41
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Do any of you use webcams in your coops/runs? We just put up plastic on 3 of 4 sides of our coop and run as a windbreak, and now we can't really see our girls. I'd love something that I could just stick up in the corner of the run that we can see on our computer/phone. Preferably something self-contained, and a bonus if it's solar/battery because the one extension cord that runs out to the coop is already splitting off to run their water de-icer and their heating panel. Pretty much looking for set it and forget it.
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Nov 18, 2021 21:49
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I have in the past! Solar charging is possible and may increase the price point a fair bit, but the wireless webcam I used was just fine outside of charging periods. I usually just brought it in at night. The one webcam I used that had AC charging was nice, though. Obviously, router distance will make a big difference in stream quality. Keep that in mind!
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Nov 18, 2021 23:03
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I’m going to set up a cam for my girls soon. Fairy egg (She is still doing a very good job and I am proud of her)
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Nov 18, 2021 23:37
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stealie72 posted:Do any of you use webcams in your coops/runs? We do. I had a generic AliExpress cam and poo poo canned for a Wyze cam. Super easy setup, great quality, and would get again. I think they make a battery only version too.
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Nov 19, 2021 02:11
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an egg posted:
lovely
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Have a wild chicken-adjacent showing that the lack of survival instincts runs in the family. https://i.imgur.com/vNJav1f.mp4
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Cythereal posted:Have a wild chicken-adjacent showing that the lack of survival instincts runs in the family. I love that it has wonderful camouflage and just decides to walk right up to a predator
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Nov 19, 2021 13:48
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Suddenly I'm thinking that the domestication of chickens must have been really easy.
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Nov 19, 2021 16:15
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My best guess is that it's one of these. The guide notes that they're well known for being suicidally tame and docile around humans.
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Nov 19, 2021 16:18
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Cythereal posted:My best guess is that it's one of these. The guide notes that they're well known for being suicidally tame and docile around humans. I think it's a Ruffed Grouse, https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Ruffed_Grouse/id. They like to hang out on my driveway in the morning and eat gravel. They have zero fear of vehicles but flush pretty easily if you're on foot.
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Ruffed grouse are my favorites because they use their wings to drum on dead logs and make a sound like a tractor starting up.  It's so low it carries an absurd amount, so you can be sitting in the house with your headphones on and you'll still know when a ruffed grouse somewhere in the woods is drumming. Sometimes it's more like feeling the soundwave than actually hearing it.... the fact that they attract mates with a sound like an engine does imply that they'd be pretty interested in vehicles. This video tries to capture it, but really doesn't do justice to the intensity of it when you hear it in real life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVfiIp3QGs4
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Nov 19, 2021 18:04
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a few years back, my dad got several pictures of him holding a grouse. the darn thing would fly at him every time he got near its territory (which was by whatever outdoor project dad was working on)
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Nov 19, 2021 18:06
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Cythereal posted:Have a wild chicken-adjacent showing that the lack of survival instincts runs in the family. Not so stupid - you can't get shot if you're sitting on the bow! 
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Nov 19, 2021 18:23
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And dude isn't really a predator since a grouse isn't a deer/elk/whatever.
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I'd agree with ruffed grouse, with that tail. A lot of people around here will snare grouse by hand. Good eating, apparently.
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Cythereal posted:Have a wild chicken-adjacent showing that the lack of survival instincts runs in the family.
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There is a bird in my neighborhood that I desperately want to identify but I only ever get a fleeting glimpse of it as it flies by, I just spotted it up in a tree and tried to get a better look with binoculars but I was shaking too much to see it clearly before it flew away. If I ever manage a picture I'll post it here since, well, why not I guess.
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Nov 20, 2021 19:51
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Cloudy days in autumn are better once the leaves start to fall:
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Nov 20, 2021 22:17
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good birds doing good bird things
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Shifty Nipples posted:There is a bird in my neighborhood that I desperately want to identify but I only ever get a fleeting glimpse of it as it flies by, I just spotted it up in a tree and tried to get a better look with binoculars but I was shaking too much to see it clearly before it flew away. If I ever manage a picture I'll post it here since, well, why not I guess. How about a few descriptors? That could help us to narrow it down for you. Also location and type of habitat, etc. You might want to get something like Sibley's app. You can narrow down what gets shown by setting your state, and it shows male and female and eclipse plumage, has audio for songs and how to distinguish it from similar species. I finally found what was making this wheezy, whistly song after literally decades. Turned out to be a white throated sparrow. Never saw them, only heard them.
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MrUnderbridge posted:How about a few descriptors? That could help us to narrow it down for you. Also location and type of habitat, etc. The thing is I never see it well enough to make an accurate description, it has red-brown bits and white bits and black bits which doesn't narrow it down much. Could be anything from a sparrow to a kestrel. That's why I'm waiting to get a picture of it before I try asking for help IDing it.
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spookygonk posted:Cloudy days in autumn are better once the leaves start to fall: how beautiful
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the new cage is indoor-outdoor and double storey. moose loves it. she can do her favourite thing, sitting motionless in the shade, for a few hours and then go do her other favourite thing, sitting motionless in the sun, for a few hours  and then go upstairs for a well-earned dust bath and a nap.
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lol i just went back in my photos to see what date i got moose (may 2020) and found this photo of her as a baby magnificently lazy bird
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How delightful.
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Moose is my favorite  One of the “babies”, 8 weeks old today, was trying to crow in the coop this morning. The door was shut so I didn’t see who it was but I have my suspicions…  Also, we got 4 Muscovy ducks yesterday. They were raised pretty hands-off so it will probably take them a long time to warm up to me. They are so lovely though!  I didn’t get a picture but also yesterday we went to get some barrels from a Craigslist seller and he had about a 50 white muscovies. Today is culling day for him so I’m glad I got to see the ducks when I did. There’s not much prettier than a pond full of happy ducks.
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Joburg posted:Moose is my favorite lovely. what will become of Mr. Suspicious? he's pretty. good luck with the ducks. this morning i threw scratch mix out front for the quail. my neighbor's chickens, who are separated from my yard by a street, 3 fences, and a huge swath of lawn, noticed. they all came running to their fence trying to figure out how to get some eats
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City of Glompton posted:lovely. what will become of Mr. Suspicious? he's pretty. good luck with the ducks. That’s how you can tell the type of bird owner someone is, if the birds come toward you when you make a throwing motion, the owner is a treat giver. My new ducks however….  I will probably keep that little rooster until there’s a reason not to, and then I’d rehome him if he’s not a jerk to people. He’s a Penedesenca so he’s fairly rare. He doesn’t really fit into my breeding plans, but those are in flux anyway. On that note, a 6/17ths of the flock I brought from Wyoming developed bumble foot since moving to Georgia. We had some trees mulched so there was a lot of rough wood on the ground and it was humid at that time, but some hens that are determined foragers didn’t get bumbles. I did some research and most books/sites say it is more common in heavy breeds due to their weight, but the higher proportion was actually in my Leghorns. I read that Fayoumis are resistant to bacterial and viral infections but does that include Staph? Do I need a Fayoumi test subject? My plan is to keep any recurring bumble-havers out of the breeding group but I don’t know if that’s really a thing you can effectively select out. Any ideas?
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I'm trying to find a thing that should exist but I don't know if it does - I had some changes done to my coop, basically I have a flap in the back that empties into the run so I can easily clean it out. I have a small rake I had been using to clean it out but now what I want is more of a squeege-type thing with no gaps so I can get everything, but I don't want an actual squeege of course. More like a rake that's designed to be used horizontally, that has a flat smooth thing on the end instead of tines. Does that make any sense?
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Nov 24, 2021 20:47
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Something like this? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00L2OMAP6/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_navT_g_WZM5CSYZYRAE770QEJTZ
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Yeah except the bottom bit needs to face down instead of forward (90 degree angle) and maybe a little wider. I could probably fashion something myself with a rake handle and a piece of wood... The coop I'm clearing out will be at waist height so that's why the flat thing won't really work here.
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This might work https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Y4T1K91/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_navT_g_7ZXJJFP9MH8V2WX6QTA7
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Joburg posted:...He’s a Penedesenca... those sound really interesting, i love that there is a whole festival for them
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Mozi posted:Yeah except the bottom bit needs to face down instead of forward (90 degree angle) and maybe a little wider. I could probably fashion something myself with a rake handle and a piece of wood... The coop I'm clearing out will be at waist height so that's why the flat thing won't really work here. A hoe maybe?
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