yngmar, 28 days ago to random

More fun #Chicken facts:

These chickens are giving me the side-eye. The closest ones look at me with their right eye, the ones further away with their left eye.

This is because the right eye is nearsighted and the left eye is far-sighted - so when they get closer, the head switches sides.

Chickens can also see UV light, so they perceive more of the spectrum than humans, but they have extremely poor nightvision and thus go to bed (roost) early.

#Chickens #FunFact #AnimalHusbandry

yngmar, 1 month ago to random

Chickens love scratching. When you dump some stuff in the chicken coop, you don't need to worry about spreading it out, the chickens will do it for you.

That's why its good to have the #compost pile in there. Also because they love pecking through the vegetable scraps.

Here they've got some dry raspberry stems that went through #HerrSchröder (our branch shredder), turning them into mulch.

#Chickens #AnimalHusbandry #Scratching

Five chickens in the backyard, scratching through some freshly dumped raspberry mulch. They're using their powerful legs to kick away the branches and find tasty insects between them.

yngmar, 1 year ago to random

Fun chicken facts:

• Chickens only have one butthole (cloaca), for everything: pooping, peeing, mating and laying eggs
• Cocks have no ... cock. Only another cloaca
• Mating happens by squeezing their cloacas together briefly and squirting some sperm over
• Sperm is viable at body temperature, therefore no need for external testicles
• And it stays viable inside the chickens body after mating for up to two weeks

#VillageLife #Landlubbering #Chicken #AnimalHusbandry