Bird Brain on Bread

Playing Chicken With a Cat

Happy Dance Like a Chicken Day!

Sneezing Chicken

If you don't want to wait, the sneeze comes at around 35 seconds in.

Grit Chick Cam

The Grit Chick Cam now offers the embed code:

GRIT Live Chick Cam

GRIT Live Chick Cam

albumen

albumen al·bu·men [al-byoo-muhn] noun

1. the white of an egg.
2. Botany, the nutritive matter around the embryo in a seed.
3. Biochemistry, albumin.

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I knew this word, even before I started being obsessed with recipes. I'll have to say I've never heard of an "albumen omlet", though.

Here's a site where you can see where the albumen has turned into feathers.

GRIT Live Chick Cam

HenCam

A recent discovery, I really enjoy getting updates from the site in my reader and I try to visit every day I can to view the various webcams.  The owner of the site is a lady who lives in a small town outside of Boston.

There's an outside cam (pictured above), where you can find the hens on most days. It's fun to watch them peck and scratch the ground and I find it as entertaining as watching an aquarium full of fish.  There's also inside cameras, one in a separate barn for chickens and another for the same chickens pictured in the above screen shot.  There's also a GoatCam (actually two, one for inside and another outside that will switch between them on a motion sensor) that shows the activities of the two Nigerian Dwarf Dairy goats, Pip and Caper. 

The hens also all have names, but I'm not familiar enough yet to recognize each of them.  There's a page with photos of each with their names.  If you watch long enough, you'll also see Phoebe the rabbit hopping in or out of the view.

Today's article was very interesting, about re-introducing a hen - Beulah - back into the flock.  (there really IS such a thing as a "pecking order").  Check it out;  if you like animals and especially chickens (and goats and rabbits!) you're sure to enjoy it as I do.

HenCam

Just In Case

You haven't had your daily dose of "cute".

I visit the Murray McMurray Hatchery website fairly often, subscribe to both their catalog mailings and their email newsletters and subscribe to their YouTube channel. 

I couldn't decide which video to use f/ this post, so I picked one w/ the most "unusual" looking chicks.  Hey, it was either chicks or their latest video, the EZ Plucker.

Crazy Chicken Captions

A few months ago I had been on YouTube looking at videos about raising chickens; one of the recommended vids was this one How To Care For Free Range Chickens, done by a lady with a lovely British (I think) accent. I didn't have any problem understanding her, but didn't have the time to watch the video so I clicked on the "Watch Later" button...but instead, I hit the "Closed Captions" button. What I saw after that was hilarious. Here's the introduction:

Huh? It gets funnier.

As I said, I didn't have any trouble understanding her accent, but apparently the caption software did.

Where did they get THAT?

Gas mask?

Politics gets inserted into EVERYTHING these days!

That was only a few of the more hilarious captions.