@@FlemPhlikka Given that people will be going home and will want something to eat, and that people are more biologically-driven than we think, I think this could genuinely be the case!
Chickens have low level light blindness. This is why they will go to roost before the sun goes down. They can’t see in low light and this makes them susceptible to predators. This is also why you’ll see them gather like this. Safety in numbers. If most of the flock is outside the coop during darkness they will most likely go where the others are. Flock animals stick together. Chickens are used to middle of the day storms which sometimes darken the day just as much as an eclipse. They most likely, like us, are able to decipher that there’s something different about the lighting and atmosphere during an eclipse and obviously unnerve them.
I'm 71 years old and when I was around 10 I asked Uncle Bob, an old old black gentleman that did "piddling around" work on my grandad's farm, when he was born. I knew he was old because he had teenage great-grandchildren. Uncle Bob told me he didn't know when he was born. He said all he knew was that his mama told him he was born the day the chickens went to roost at noon. I assume it was during an eclipse.
If you are 71 years old, 61 years ago you would be 10 in 1963. Let's assume the man was in his 90's since he had great grandchildren and he still worked. Based on eclipses that happened in the U.S. the closest one that happened was in August 7, 1869 would make that man 94 years old. There was another eclipse that happened on July 29, 1878 that would make the man 85 years old. It's feasible that he could have teenage great grand children at 85 and still work. So most likely his birthday was July 29, 1878. Back then they didn't keep records as well so it's understandable that he didn't know his birthdate.
What state was this in? If he lived in the same state all of his life, you can figure out his birthdate by examining eclipses that passed by that state in the probable time frame.
went and found this after watching yr hour on smarter every day 2 this evening absolutely amazing work ur doing thank you so much for sharing yr passion !!
Just this year we got to see the eclipse in Vermont. My ducks went to bed, the chickens thought it was terrifying and hid on the far end of their run, all pressed up against thr fence. My dog didn't even notice. The cats were in hiding. It was an amazing show.
Thanks for this. The bottom line is they behave normally?! Or is this - oh 5hit! I’d like to eat more before I go to sleep for the night? I once watched a Turkey Vulture soar right through an eclipse as if it wasn’t anything to worry about. It didn’t change its behavior one bit. I half suspected it was laughing at all the humans gathered
I wonder what the eggs are like the day after a eclipse, when the chicken has had two nights in 24 hours. Seems to have just been perceived as night to the animals, no concept of time, Flamingos at the zoo gathered like a storm was coming, which I think would have been the cold front under the shadow.
It’s probably a morning feeding behavior getting repeated mine always fill themselves up in the morning I wasn’t in the path of totality sadly so couldn’t observe myself
"...Hopefully they're the good guys" - maybe by comparison but that's not really saying very much. This is one version of Billy the Kid's story; there are others and I'd take all of them with a bit of skepticism. It isn't even certain that he was really left-handed. Pugilism is old-style boxing; it was done without gloves and had very different rules from modern boxing - sometimes no rules at all. there are sites on TH-cam where you could learn more if you're really interested.
They were aware of the coming eclipse, as foretold by Coque LeGrand who has since passed away, the farmer turned him into a delicious soup last year during the great freeze.
Local TV station spewing forth about will the chickens go to roast like that question has never been answered before. they will, along with nocturnal animals coming out and others going to sleep.
I made a point of looking at my cats during totality and they were just curious why I was outside. That's more of a rarity than the eclipse. I did notice that the usually active birds had all gone quiet for the most part. But I figure that's the same effect as putting a blanket over a bird's cage to make it think it's night time and go to sleep.
@@Goodgrief44 My siblings and I have been called "Maynard" all our lives, it never occurred to me it was a culture reference. Thanks for the edu! TL;DR today your "nerdy" name _eclipsed_ my lame comment 👍
They see by UV light too. They have 4 different light receptors. They see the sunrise about an hour earlier than humans. For them it never got dark… just a little dimmer.
Morning feeding behavior that got triggered by the sun they don’t eat at night but eat all day long so naturally their instinct is to fill up in the morning
I'm guessing this is a clue as to how chickens are tricked into thinking there are 25 hours in a day to increase egg production or something like that. 🤔
Thanks for your comment. I was so fortunate to have remote help with getting this video! It really is one of the best eclipse animal behavior videos on the internet. Please share it with your friends! Thanks!
@@solareclipsetimer I definitely will, thank you! I’m hoping to be able to see the next eclipse in person, but I’m in North Carolina, so I’d have to take a trip to the middle of Arkansas to get the chance.
I live inside of a suburb and one of the neighbors has decided to raise a Rooster in his pen of chickens. The rooster crows throughout the night due to the street lamps shining dimly through their roost cover. The poor little idiot thinks it's the crack of dawn every time he opens his eyes at night.
Chicken : Let's eat! Humans throughout history: OMG, The end is nigh, we are all doomed, burn the witch to save our soulsss!!!!! God is pushing us for our sins!!!
@clipsetimer Thank you for replying. Well, no chicken activity here then. but I will hopefully go see a friend before the eclipse in NC then try to make the trip out to Texas. I loved 2017 and this one should be amazing. Oh by the way, I have an old video on my channel of the eclipse in 2017. You can hear your app on it at one point.
I'm in pell city a little over an hour from destins place, (smarter everyday. I also have chickens, I want to take my kids and wife (pictured) up to TN to get in totality but that's hard for us to do. Assuming we are here at home, I got no problem filming them and posting it if you think it would be worth it.
“Sisters! We have survived the apocalypse! Now we feast!”
Chickens "ahhh second breakfast... don't mind if I do!" 😂
😂😂😂
theyll be eating again make no mistake. you know, elevenses, luncheon, afternoon tea, dinner, supper
@@ltaldoraine4495spoilers: they're gonna be supper
Fooled by a false 2nd sunrise.
@@snugbug5067 WHERE DA ROOSTERS
Chicken's think it's the shortest night ever 😂
Q: Why does a chicken coop have two doors?
A: If it had four doors it would be a chicken sedan.
Lol☆☆
Dad, you're embarrassing me
@@juliebraden6911 Go clean your room!
Darn kids anyway. 😁
Told this one to my kid. Got the biggest eye roll ever. My day is complete!
....and yet ANOTHER reason I'm glad I don't have kids.
So after totality is....breakfast? That should be a human behavior too.
Hobbits would approve.
Someone should ask McDonalds if their sales data peaks in the hour following the eclipse 😂
Yep. This is exactly what chickens do in the morning. They look for food.
@@FlemPhlikka Given that people will be going home and will want something to eat, and that people are more biologically-driven than we think, I think this could genuinely be the case!
@@FlemPhlikka I literally had McDonalds after watching the eclipse lol
Chickens be thinking " what a quick night".
The chickens think they weren’t fed for a day 😂
They probably thought it was heavy rainclouds moving through.
they dont run eating when that happens tho.
Nah, they smart enough to know the sun is gone
@@hafirenggayuda Yeah, they were running to get their telescopes and notepads. Real smart chickens...
@@Kube_Dog yep. Darkness because of cloud and absence of sun are different, even animals know it. You could too, if you remove that silly sunglasses
i found another video where they all retreat inside when it got dark, then came back out again like it was morning
Yes, I know of that one. I think that was form Finland.
Yes that’s 3xactly what 5hey were doing.
I love the reflection of the eclipse on the metal wall, the colors are truly alien for a second
Chickens going in and coming out after it gets light again is what I would think they might do.
A rooster didn't announce the new day....
Dont need the rooster
🐔: "Boy all this darkness is making me hungry 😋."
A chicken checked their watch "what the cluck?"
🐔
Only funny comment on this video. Congratulations sir!
😫
No chicken going "the sky is falling"?
Oh, that phrase was uttered many times leading up to this event, though surprisingly it wasn't by chickens!
Only the little ones.
At least they're not trying to cross that road.
Chickens have low level light blindness. This is why they will go to roost before the sun goes down. They can’t see in low light and this makes them susceptible to predators. This is also why you’ll see them gather like this. Safety in numbers. If most of the flock is outside the coop during darkness they will most likely go where the others are. Flock animals stick together. Chickens are used to middle of the day storms which sometimes darken the day just as much as an eclipse. They most likely, like us, are able to decipher that there’s something different about the lighting and atmosphere during an eclipse and obviously unnerve them.
I'm 71 years old and when I was around 10 I asked Uncle Bob, an old old black gentleman that did "piddling around" work on my grandad's farm, when he was born. I knew he was old because he had teenage great-grandchildren. Uncle Bob told me he didn't know when he was born. He said all he knew was that his mama told him he was born the day the chickens went to roost at noon. I assume it was during an eclipse.
If you are 71 years old, 61 years ago you would be 10 in 1963. Let's assume the man was in his 90's since he had great grandchildren and he still worked. Based on eclipses that happened in the U.S. the closest one that happened was in August 7, 1869 would make that man 94 years old. There was another eclipse that happened on July 29, 1878 that would make the man 85 years old. It's feasible that he could have teenage great grand children at 85 and still work. So most likely his birthday was July 29, 1878. Back then they didn't keep records as well so it's understandable that he didn't know his birthdate.
What state was this in? If he lived in the same state all of his life, you can figure out his birthdate by examining eclipses that passed by that state in the probable time frame.
Me at 3am in front of the fridge:
went and found this after watching yr hour on smarter every day 2 this evening
absolutely amazing work ur doing thank you so much for sharing yr passion !!
Me too🎉
Just this year we got to see the eclipse in Vermont. My ducks went to bed, the chickens thought it was terrifying and hid on the far end of their run, all pressed up against thr fence.
My dog didn't even notice. The cats were in hiding.
It was an amazing show.
And they're still smart enough to not stare at the fucking sun.
are chckens actually fucking smarter than us 💀
Ok?
@@Bromon655 Do you need help?
Instructions unclear, have stared into sun now for three days.
You can look at the eclipse when it's in totality
it's like a movie, they got popcorn too
I bet it confused the heck out of the roosters though, "it's morning, again?"
That was unexpected
"Ah what"s with this darkness"? "Dunno lets go outside and see" "ah hang on its just morning again back to routine ladies. Breakfast"!
"sisters! we just survived the apocalypse! time to feast!"
I watched my birds, no change but I did see them get many worms just before the darkest part. I thought it was strange.
They normally head inside when it's dark, but they knew better!
Thanks for this. The bottom line is they behave normally?!
Or is this - oh 5hit! I’d like to eat more before I go to sleep for the night?
I once watched a Turkey Vulture soar right through an eclipse as if it wasn’t anything to worry about. It didn’t change its behavior one bit. I half suspected it was laughing at all the humans gathered
Chickens always want to eat.
I wonder what the eggs are like the day after a eclipse, when the chicken has had two nights in 24 hours.
Seems to have just been perceived as night to the animals, no concept of time, Flamingos at the zoo gathered like a storm was coming, which I think would have been the cold front under the shadow.
In times of darkness in my life I have been binge eating too.
That's why I'm so fat.
Food- my drug of chose too when dark times come
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I mean I stress eat to if nobody warned me about the eclipse and the sky suddenly went dark
Must be some surviving instinct what impels them to eat as possible. Who knows, but it certainly is strange...
Hey if this is the end of the world, at least I'm going out on a full stomach!
Well it’s a bunch of chickens. All they do is eat and sh*t
It’s probably a morning feeding behavior getting repeated mine always fill themselves up in the morning I wasn’t in the path of totality sadly so couldn’t observe myself
The eclipse just happened to occur at their normal feeding time.
@@cumunist2120 my thoughts exactly
Mine stayed out and just stood around during, then were very active foraging after.
How did you get little eclipse glasses for all those chickens?
"...Hopefully they're the good guys" - maybe by comparison but that's not really saying very much.
This is one version of Billy the Kid's story; there are others and I'd take all of them with a bit of skepticism. It isn't even certain that he was really left-handed.
Pugilism is old-style boxing; it was done without gloves and had very different rules from modern boxing - sometimes no rules at all. there are sites on TH-cam where you could learn more if you're really interested.
I think your speaking about a different clip
I got a chick fil a ad before this 💀
They seem to react more so as if it were dawn than evening.
I had to watch a Chic-Filet commercial to see this video. Very fitting. Now I'm hungry.
These are well-programmed, bug-free chickens.
They just thought it was a dark cloud passing by.
They were aware of the coming eclipse, as foretold by Coque LeGrand who has since passed away, the farmer turned him into a delicious soup last year during the great freeze.
elder chicken: according to the dino book, the sun tries to eat the moon but it's not tasty.
chickens: as written!
Local TV station spewing forth about will the chickens go to roast like that question has never been answered before.
they will, along with nocturnal animals coming out and others going to sleep.
Yeah, but why did they cross the road?
Do you normally feed them around dawn? My cat demands breakfast at first light, which is a real nuisance in the summer.
I made a point of looking at my cats during totality and they were just curious why I was outside. That's more of a rarity than the eclipse. I did notice that the usually active birds had all gone quiet for the most part. But I figure that's the same effect as putting a blanket over a bird's cage to make it think it's night time and go to sleep.
No different than a rain cloud passing.
My chickens did themsame thing. Some went in and most stayed out to eat grass.
Can’t fool the chickens when there’s still dirt to be pecked at.
that was cool, they kinda seemed to go through a day cycle in that time
During the eclipse, hungry for food is pretty good, he he hu hu he he hu hu he he hu hu he he hu hu he he hu hu he
They think it’s morning again
It's true. I brush my teeth and have my breakfast after every solar eclipse.
It's the end of the world!
Anybody else feel a mite peckish?
Mite peckish, love it😂
@@Goodgrief44 My siblings and I have been called "Maynard" all our lives, it never occurred to me it was a culture reference. Thanks for the edu!
TL;DR today your "nerdy" name _eclipsed_ my lame comment 👍
Of course they came out. They all knew about the eclipse after reading about it on the internet the previous night.
Well done chickens!❤
Hmm, I thought they would go to sleep as it started getting dark.
They see by UV light too. They have 4 different light receptors. They see the sunrise about an hour earlier than humans. For them it never got dark… just a little dimmer.
UV light comes from the sun, so it got just as dark for them as us, and perceptually even more since they have poor night vision
"behavior is to eat"
Yeap, that's chickens.
Eclipse confused them the sunrise. Breakfast time. These chickens are like sheeple, they follow the others.
So, you don't eat breakfast? Fine, but it doesn't make you a hero.
Was there a spike in chicken sandwich sales during that hour?
They had to make up for missing lunch and dinner.
Chickens of the world, Unite!
Chicken little not screaming this time
So...they di the same thing chickens always do?
They breed a chicken with 4 legs but gave it up because no one could catch one
Okay did I miss in the description where this was located?
So you can get chickens to eat more/less often just by dimming the lights?
Holy crap man. What do you feed these birds? Meth?
Same thing happened in the bar I was was in.
Any thoughts on why the chickens demonstrated this behavior?
On turkey farms, they turn the lights off and on, turkeys think it's time to eat, fatens'em up!
Morning feeding behavior that got triggered by the sun they don’t eat at night but eat all day long so naturally their instinct is to fill up in the morning
Stress eating explained
How cool would it be if roosters began to crow as the light returned?
They do what they always do all day, amazing.
Stress eating?
Likely thought it was the actions of the Great Alectryon
I did the same thing, watched the eclipse then imminently went to Burger King and got a double whopper with cheese and onion rings.
I'm guessing this is a clue as to how chickens are tricked into thinking there are 25 hours in a day to increase egg production or something like that. 🤔
Very interesting!
Thanks for your comment. I was so fortunate to have remote help with getting this video! It really is one of the best eclipse animal behavior videos on the internet. Please share it with your friends! Thanks!
@@solareclipsetimer I definitely will, thank you! I’m hoping to be able to see the next eclipse in person, but I’m in North Carolina, so I’d have to take a trip to the middle of Arkansas to get the chance.
@@dewilew2137 Do it! The next good eclipse in the United States is in 2045. So between now and then you would need to travel internationally.
wheres breakfast
It's time for second breakfast, girls!
Chickens: Execute Order 66
I didn't hear the rooster crow.
I guess that’s a real example of Pavlovian behavior. 😅
I live inside of a suburb and one of the neighbors has decided to raise a Rooster in his pen of chickens. The rooster crows throughout the night due to the street lamps shining dimly through their roost cover. The poor little idiot thinks it's the crack of dawn every time he opens his eyes at night.
I believe a small bird leak the news to them about the up coming event.
That little birdy gets around😂
Book book book
"No thanks, not while I'm eating"
SED
I have the behavior of a chicken.
If you had roosters they would be crowing also...
Chickens can only hold one thought at a time. When it's dark and then the sun comes out it's breakfast time. Simple.
It didn't mean anything because I don't know what chickens normally do
Hi Susan, watch the long version video of the chicken behavior, that explains it all. th-cam.com/video/_WHql-QKkrg/w-d-xo.html
... stress eating...???
I needed to know this
Thought it was morn8ng again.
Chicken : Let's eat!
Humans throughout history: OMG, The end is nigh, we are all doomed, burn the witch to save our soulsss!!!!! God is pushing us for our sins!!!
I have chickens and a very nice coop. But I'm in Florida so probably they'll just keep doing what they do. Should I bother to film my own birds?
In Florida, you will only be in a partial eclipse and it won't get dark enough to affect them.
@clipsetimer Thank you for replying. Well, no chicken activity here then. but I will hopefully go see a friend before the eclipse in NC then try to make the trip out to Texas. I loved 2017 and this one should be amazing.
Oh by the way, I have an old video on my channel of the eclipse in 2017. You can hear your app on it at one point.
@@ScaryFear Nice! I love to hear my app running in the background of eclipse videos!
I'm in pell city a little over an hour from destins place, (smarter everyday. I also have chickens, I want to take my kids and wife (pictured) up to TN to get in totality but that's hard for us to do. Assuming we are here at home, I got no problem filming them and posting it if you think it would be worth it.
@@melissaattaway7426 If you are not in the path of totality it is not worth tyring.
I think they just assume it's night time. Put a blanket over most bird cages and they either go to sleep or go apeshit screaming.
Chicken behavior
So my wife is part chicken?
They all coming out to see the unusual event…….. just once in their life time ❤❤❤