• southsamurai
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    1 day ago

    Yo, no bullshit, my hen that sometimes rides on my shoulder catches shit I’d never notice.

    Mind you, it isn’t armed enemies or anything, but those fucking squirrels are plottin on me.

    And the rooster, that crazy bastard would rip a shotgun out of my hands amd shove it up the ass of a coyote. My feathered homie goes hard on predators

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      7 hours ago

      Watched some documentary ages ago and pigeons’ reaction times are so fast it’s almost like we move in slow motion to them. 250ms is the average for humans without training and pigeons trained to peck when a certain stimuli was presented showed theirs is roughly 80ms. Smaller birds are even faster. Pretty neat.

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      18 hours ago

      Lucky, my roosters are either total assholes or complete cowards - but they both end up worthless when a fox or coyote show up.

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      24 hours ago

      In my experience, roosters go hard on on everything. Well, some anyway. The other half are cuddly instead of aggressive.

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        17 hours ago

        This crazy bugger used to go hard on everything, but the last month or so, he’s turned into my buddy. Loves getting pets and scritches now. But he’ll still flex on anything that isn’t familiar unless it’s a hen lol