You know you live in the country if......

[St. Phatty]

Modern Art is where you find it.

This is entitled "Oedipal Bird". The white bird is the black bird's mother.

The mini black rooster gets pushed around by his father, a bantam rooster. So the black mini-roo has to be extra calculating to get his moment of Horizontal Yoga with one of the 4 hens.

 

[armedoldhippy]

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and know what a hay loft is really for...

 

[TychoMonolyth]

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Modern Art is where you find it.

This is entitled "Oedipal Bird". The white bird is the black bird's mother.

The mini black rooster gets pushed around by his father, a bantam rooster. So the black mini-roo has to be extra calculating to get his moment of Horizontal Yoga with one of the 4 hens.

1st time I saw a rooster take a hen I thought "There's absolutely no love in that. That's a hate fuck if I ever saw one."

 

[kaochiu]

I ended up disliking them and gave them away to a friend who lives up in the mountains, hope they've been eaten by wolves by now. Too many rats breeding around them. Also it's true, does look like hate fuck, and i started thinking that those hens were living in terror. There was a son of the rooster that kept growing, so had to separate them cos they tried to kill each other, dividing between them the hens and the space. Then another growing which was going to start the problem all over again. Plus I don't eat eggs. I've got an empty henhouse now. Fenced, sunny and well fertilized. What should i put there to replace chickens? Ah! Good idea, thanks.

 

[St. Phatty]

It really depends on the bird & how they get along with each other when they're not mating.

I had one Golden Sex Link male that on one of the rare occasions when he was allowed indoors, bit the comb off one of the female birds. = Blood Everywhere.

The 2 roosters I have now are both as gentle as a rooster can be, given the precarious tools they have to work with.

For the rooster, the mating position is a little like riding one of those mechanized bulls in a bar. He literally stands on the hen's back and grabs her feathers in his beak.

From the hen's point of view ... yes her suitor is standing on her back.

Standing on the back of the hen, the rooster somehow ??? fertilizes the egg before the hen starts covering it with eggshell.

If this was a design class for animals, I think we would say, "back to the drawing board" if anybody proposed an animal mating ritual as clumsy as what chickens do.

I still don't know what a rooster's Business looks like and I ain't gonna look it up.

I like filming it because I think it's funny.

The big rooster interferes if he is around.

So getting a "clean" mating between the mini-black rooster and the white bird ... it's like the Holy Grail. I have seen it, but I haven't been able to capture it on video.

 

[CosmicGiggle]

You know you live in the country if......

Nature never dissapoints…. you live a simple life and take your entertainment wherever you find it!

 

[St. Phatty]

Nature never dissapoints…. you live a simple life and take your entertainment wherever you find it!

The end result of one of those matings - this Silkie-Bantam hen.

She was conceived during a mating with the larger rooster in September, shortly before another mountain lion feeding incident.

Actually, the black mini-rooster was conceived at the same time.

The little white hen disappeared for a week after that attack, and came back with 2 little chicks in tow.


I'd like to add to their numbers now that they are trained to roost 10 feet off the ground.

But I'm tired of feeding predators AND tired of chicken poop (and flies) in the house. So the chicks have to go through those dangerous first 10 weeks outdoors ... I used to let them into the spare bathroom.

I need some special bushes that have nesting places about 3 feet off the ground, so the white bird can not be at ground level when the skunks come out shortly after sunset.

 

[caliprop215]

.................if u fall asleep to the frogs song symphony every night.

 

[Stoner4Life]

.................if u fall asleep to the frogs song symphony every night.

I hear the peepers at my place plenty, but I used to house sit for a friend who lived across from a small swamp, not a symphony but cacophony of a chorus, everything from the smallest tree frogs to massive bullfrogs going all at once, so I'd let go w/a .22 & instant silence! but slowly it would begin again as if nothing had happened.

 

[caliprop215]

I hear the peepers at my place plenty, but I used to house sit for a friend who lived across from a small swamp, not a symphony but cacophony of a chorus, everything from the smallest tree frogs to massive bullfrogs going all at once, so I'd let go w/a .22 & instant silence! but slowly it would begin again as if nothing had happened.

Yea make any noise at all they all shut off instantly lol.i yelled hey at them the other day and they stopped

 

[Betterhaff]

Can’t remember what island I was on in the Carib, Antigua I think, but it was loaded with what I call “steel drum” frogs. And man they made a racket if you weren’t used to them. One night I caught one, teeny little things, could easily fit on a dime. Hard to believe such a little thing can make such a big noise.

 

[Stoner4Life]

Can’t remember what island I was on in the Carib, Antigua I think, but it was loaded with what I call “steel drum” frogs. And man they made a racket if you weren’t used to them. One night I caught one, teeny little things, could easily fit on a dime. Hard to believe such a little thing can make such a big noise.

did ya lick it??? how high'd ya get???

 

[kaochiu]

Careful licking frogs, Prince Rainiero might pop up.

 

[St. Phatty]

did ya lick it??? how high'd ya get???

The white liquid that seeps out of Bufo toad glands is a Neurotoxin.

Like lead - but stronger.

 

[axle2u]

Just had a "deep stoner thought" about a lot of things that I've just been taking for granted, for the last 8 years...

It's a little different living in the country, but I LOVE it!!

"You know you live in the country if"....
You own a 4x4 just so you can get down your own driveway and the street you live on...

ahaha.....love it

 

[Bud Green]

You know you live in the country if......

The only way to get to your house is to travel 10 miles by boat, across two salt water lagoons, and pass nothing but jungle along the way...

I helped my best buddy build his place, in the jungle of Panama in the late '90's...

..

 

[Putembk]

Your truck is always dirty....even 10 minutes after washing it.....

 

[caliprop215]

Your truck is always dirty....even 10 minutes after washing it.....

U kno u live in the country when .......u havent washed your truck in years lol

Then why wash it?

 

[Putembk]

I wouldn't be able to tell which truck is mine without a clean spot....

 

[Stoner4Life]

You know you live in the country if......

The only way to get to your house is to travel 10 miles by boat, across two salt water lagoons, and pass nothing but jungle along the way...

I helped my best buddy build his place, in the jungle of Panama in the late '90's...

..

in the late '90s, lucky you.

during those years I'd moved my ass back out of minnesota (keeping my property of course) and back to the burbs of NYC so I could drive truck n' taxi after being disillusioned over the earning potential in the country.

I worked so many hours driving that I didn't have time to miss the country... found & bought myself an old Harley, but no matter when I had free time I actually didn't wanna face those idiots on 2 wheels. I brought it up here to minn where I only hadda worry 'bout dodgin' the deer & bear.......