Monthly Archives: March 2012

We woke up to a lovely surprise today. I had an email sitting in my inbox letting us know that coopcam.org has been given the “Top 10 Webcam” award on earthcam.com!

We are so excited!

Earthcam is a very popular webcam site, here is some info about them in their own words:  “EarthCam is the leading network of live webcams and offers the most comprehensive search engine of internet cameras from around the world. EarthCam also creates and produces live webcasts in addition to providing complete infrastructure services to manage, host and maintain live streaming video camera systems for its consumers and corporate clients.”

Earthcam chooses 10 webcams to be their top ten of the moment, here is how they judge them:

“The Top 10 Webcams are chosen by a panel of EarthCam producers who select the best out of hundreds of popular webcam submissions. The criteria used for judging includes image quality, uniqueness of the content, and overall technical achievement in webcam technology. These are the cameras that have amused, amazed, or astounded us.”

Here is a screenshot, there we are in 3rd spot:

We would just like to thank everyone that views and supports coopcam.org and for those who voted or nominated us. It is wonderful to see so many countries viewing the girls and coming back to see how they are doing. Our site has been viewed by a total of 57 countries so far and our hit counter went from 400ish hits to 1106 in 2 days!

Thank you so much to everyone who watches our little hens!

We had a little bit of a scare today when on one of our routine chook checks I saw a flash of red in the corner of my eye. On closer inspection, I realised there was blood on the base of Raven’s new tail feathers. On top of this I saw that the other girls were peckng at it, making it worse!

Of course I had a panic attack and quickly brought her inside, much to the dogs bemusement and excitment (and lots of sniffing).

I popped her in the bath and poured a cup of warm water over her tail for a closer look. To my relief it looked like it was just a broken blood feather plus a little bit of pecking wounds.

Panic over. Phew.

In case you’re wondering a blood feather is a brand new feather that still has some blood vessels inside. If the feather get caught or pecked it can bleed…. a lot. Think about trimming too close to the quick on a dog’s nail. This obviously makes it look a lot worse than it actually is.

After some more cleaning I was happy that it was nothing serious, just a bit sore for her. However if I put her straight back in the run the girls would see the fresh would and continue to peck, so I decided to quarantine her for a day or so just to be safe.

Before I did that though I took a few photos of all her lovely new feathers she has been growing!

I’m so pleased she doesn’t look naked anymore!

After her little photo shoot we put her inside the broody pen for her to re “coop” (ahem, sorry) and heal up.

The other girls looked in, I think a bit envious of her special treatment. They all did however get a lovely treat of cheese, tuna and yoghurt to make up for it.

We have reached quite an exciting milestone on coopcam.org this morning….1000 visits!

This is not a hit counter which counts each page you visit, the tracker I use counts unique visits.

This means that if someone in America say viewed the site at 7am and continued to search the site for an hour with no stopping, that would be classed as just one visit. If they went away for 15 minutes and then came back to look at the site that would be classed as another visit. Make sense?

So the 1000 visits we have reached is a much better indication of how many people are actually looking at the site and staying around for a bit. Which is great!

Thank you so much guys for sticking with the cam and blog, and long may it continue….heres for 2000!

I would like to say a big thank you to all the people who have stumbled across my website and blog. I have had lots of wonderful comments and has spured me on to write more posts.

There is so much I can say about our chooks so there will be plently of interesting and fun posts to come!

So please check back and feel free to comment and let me know what you think. Thank you for reading!

Watch our chickens at www.coopcam.org

We have some exciting news! Please welcome to coopcam our newest additions, Chiana, Cleo and Arn.

There is quite a story about these three.

I was searching through the chicken classifieds as I usually do, just to be nosey, when I came across these Silkie/Pekin/Auracana pullets from a lady nearby. Now that is a lovely mix.

I really couldn’t resist. We went and had a look at them the next day and we loved them. So we chose two we liked and took them home. We made them a tempory run to get accustomed to the new area and our current chooks and seemed to be doing very well.

Because of this we decided to get one more to finish off our flock, so off we went to chose another one. Only to find when we returned Arn and Cleo had escaped! There was a small hole she must have squeezed through.

So the search began.

We checked the whole garden, in every nook and cranny, but no luck. Suddenly we heard the dogs barking in a corner by the house. We bolted over to find Cleo pressed againt the wall of the house, head down trying to hide behind the bush. Good dogs!

Cleo went back into the temp run with said hole blocked up. Next was Arn.

We searched and searched that whole evening but to no avail. I didnt sleep that night for worry, I even went out to seach again with a flashlight at 3am to check again.

We had decided the next day to check with all the neighbours surrounding us to see if she had flown over the fence. It was the only thing we could think of since there were no feathers or evidence of an attack.

We were allowed to search all their gardens but still nothing. But they said they would keep an eye out for her.

A few days passed with no news, we were sure she was gone.

Then there was a knock on the door. Our backdoor neighbour was there and said they had found Arn! They had jumped our fence and put her safely in the run for us! Amazing! It was such a lovely surprise.

Apparently our backdoor neighbour had told their neightbour to keep an eye out for her. And they did because they spotted her running across the road, and managed to corner her infront of a front door and thrown a towel over her to catch her!

What an adventure Arn has been through!

So now we have all our chooks together again in the same run and everything seems to be going fine. Just getting their pecking order sorted out.

So the moral of the story is, remember chickens are good at escaping and that they are tough little cookies!