Fabulously freezing Flock Friday, friends! (The temperature was below freezing overnight.)
A shot from the new coop cam of three chickens on their favorite roost by the window:
A GIF of a fourth flying from the other roosts, and knocking the camera off:
A freeze-frame of landing on top of another chicken, causing that chaos:
The camera is magnetically attached to a metal plate wedged under the window screen; here it’s just hanging by its wire:
The ducks on the back lawn, rooting for bugs:
A time-lapse GIF of a chicken flying up to the roost and back down again:
Chickens hanging out on top of logs etc:
A bunch more pics of the chickens:
Kiwi is still looking quite scruffy, but you can see the new feathers coming in:
Ditto with Buffy:
I had a cunning idea, to make it easier to see if the pop doors are open or closed in the dark: I added reflective tape on the pop door:
And on the outside:
The old coop too (the horizontal one acts as an extra indicator, only being visible when the door is closed):
Here are roosting chickens again, with the light on:
A little spooky after the light goes off (it’s on a timer):
As it gets darker, the night-vision of the cam turns on:
The pop door closed; now clearly visible via the reflective strips:
I can see the state of the door outside too, via the reflective strips:
In the old coop, door open:
Door closed:
The ducks have recently been hanging out on the bank to the left of the pond deck:
It started raining, so the ducks came up to the lawn to hunt for worms that come to the surface during precipitation:
A GIF of a Rouen running up the bank, using her wings to assist:
Sassa doing the same:
She kept on going:
Exploring more of the lawn: