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"bird watching" goes both ways (mander.xyz)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/science_memes@mander.xyz
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[–] 37 points 7 months ago (9 children)

It has been nice weather this weekend. I learned that my chickens will just come walking into the livingroom if I leave the door open. Very cute, but they shit everywhere.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    My mom had a rooster that hated me. He wasn't super mean but would attack after warning me if I didn't leave quick enough.

    I solved the problem by saying repeating "I'm going to pick you up" and catching him anytime he started getting aggressive. I'd wrap him up in a towel, take him inside, and we'd watch "How it's Made" while I pet his head and talked to him. He calmly but unhappily accepted the situation.

    After a few days of that he mostly left me alone. If he started puffing up I'd tell him "I'm going to pick you up": he'd instantly deflate and run away making unhappy noises.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    You'll have to get them their own TV and Barcalounger

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Hmm.. my chickens are very spoiled but they aren't “have their own tv” spoiled… yet…

    Im not sure how much good a tv does with birds though, they see at over 120hz, to our 60hz so most of what we see as motion on tv they see as a series of still images

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    To be fair, movies are 24fps!

    So movies might be too low framerate for a chicken, but 60+ fps game footage'd probably be alright.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (3 children)

    Ima have to try and see how they react.

    But chickens process 120-200 fps so I don't think that'd do the job to show them motion. (Which makes sense, they fly and have to dodge stuff in flight at high speeds)

    I may have been mistaken about what hz refers to..? Not sure. Don't… think so..? I know its refresh rate, i just don't know how thats different.

    Also fwiw some movies seem jittery to me.. so maybe we need more than 24 as a normal allotment. :)

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Oh yeah, hz and fps are the same thing here! I mostly said 24fps because you can display a 24fps movie on a higher refresh rate display and it'll still be 24fps (hz is more usual when talking about what the display itself does, fps for the content it's showing).

    And yeah, I'm more targeting "minimum to look like motion" than I am "perfectly smooth looks", heh. :3

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Hz is cycles per second. It's used in monitors because monitors are refreshing their screen with a new image each cycle. Fps is frames per second, it's more about the media itself. Hz to mean fps makes a certain sense though

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