Hyland Acres

10/24/2024

Prepare yourself for the darkness! 🤦

08/28/2024

07/03/2024

🐔🐔 Just a few FUN Chicken Facts: 🐔🐔

1. Chickens are living descendants of dinosaurs.
2. Chickens aren’t completely flightless. Today’s domestic chickens still have the ability to fly, although not as effectively. Chickens can fly for short distances – enough to clear obstacles or reach a perch.
3. Chickens can dream.
4. Chickens have better color vision than humans. Like humans, chickens have color vision, and are able to see red, green and blue light. However, what makes chicken vision unique from ours is that they are also able to see ultraviolet light, which are the colors you see when using a black light!
5. Chickens have complex communication. Chickens have over 30 unique vocalizations that they use to communicate a wide variety of messages to other chickens, including mating calls, stress signals, warnings of danger, how they are feeling and food discovery.
6. Chickens have great memories. Chickens are able to recognize over 100 different faces, even after being separated for extended periods of time, highlighting their long-term memory capabilities. These faces don’t just include chickens, they can recognize the faces of humans too!
7. Chickens bathe by covering themselves in dirt.
8. Chickens have a pecking order.
9. Egg shell color can be determined by the hen’s earlobe.
10. Chickens are very intelligent animals. Studies have shown that chickens are self-aware and can distinguish themselves from others. They learn from one another, such as a chick learning from her mother which foods are good to eat. Chickens can also demonstrate complex problem-solving skills.
(Information from BCSPCA)

09/09/2023

Soo true

02/08/2023

09/08/2022

Turkey tree

08/18/2022

You never know what you will see on the farm.

08/18/2022

03/18/2022

You're suppose to eat INside the hay ring, right?

02/06/2022

RIP Rocky 😭 Not sure what got him but he was attacked last night, probably trying to protect the hens in the barn! So sad. He had a long run on the farm, one of our first!

01/23/2022

Howdy yall 🤪