Cute Baby Goat & Cool Birds Video

It has been a fun week at my farm. I have had the migratory birds visiting the coulee, it really is an awesome sight. They are mainly snow geese, but there is a few swans and ducks and other birds in there as well. They would land on the coulee, and take off in waves, then land again. This video really doesn’t do it justice, on the right hand side, on the ice on the coulee is actually hundreds more still on the coulee. The sound is incredible.

Here is my baby goat Mike, or as I call him CryBaby Mike. He has the loudest, longest cry of all my goats.

Baby Mike made me smile. He sounds almost human.

Where is your farm?

I know he does! The first time I heard him I was :eek: I had to double check to make sure there was no real kids in there! Everyone who hears him for the first time does the same thing.

My farm is in central Alberta, or as I like to call it, God’s Country :slight_smile:

Wow! I’m impressed when I see 20 Canada geese fly over my house. That’s pretty amazing - and loud!

I love it when animals “talk.” Mike and his little friend there remind me of my dog and her cousin. The little cousin dog walks around and whines/barks and my quiet, big dog follows her for a few minutes, alertly wondering what she is trying to say, and then gets tired of it.

I’m sure Mike thinks he is telling you something VERY important :smiley:

Wow, that’s a couple things you don’t see every day. That you don’t see ANY day in Oakland. Forgive me for being a complete ignoramus, but – those are turkeys in there with the goats, right? I like the way they sound, too.

Yes, FarmerChick is “the one with the turkeys”. :smiley:

Chick, may I make a constructive suggestion for future videos? One of my Youtube “home video” pet peeves: When you’re filming something that’s (a) huge and (b) in motion, hold the camera still, and let the object do the moving. This holds true whether you’re filming a flock of birds, a river in flood, or a tornado.

Because otherwise you end up with 30 seconds of blurry movement and camera jiggles, and the viewer never does get a good long look at whatever large, moving object you’re filming. We can only catch it in glimpses. A still long shot (with or without a tripod) of those swirling clouds of geese would have been much more effective, cinematically, than what you obtained. Set up the camera farther away, and then do a long, extremely slow pan from side A to side B as the flocks fly past. That’s what will convey the flavor of what you were witnessing. David Attenborough and the Beeb do this sort of thing all the time. :smiley:

People don’t realize that the camera doesn’t “see” the same way the human eye sees. The human eye, coupled with the brain, has built-in processing software that automatically selects for “the moving thing”, and focuses on that and ignores things like the line of low hills behind the geese.

But the camera lacks that filter, and so obediently includes everything in shot. So instead of a film that shows “huge flocks of geese”, you get a film that shows the low hills quite clearly, and the geese not so clearly, since they and the camera are both moving too quickly and randomly for us to be able to really look at them.

But the hills aren’t moving, and so that’s what we see. Hills, and water, and gray fuzz in front of it.

K, end of lecture. :smiley: Thank you for allowing me le rant petite.

Yes, they are free ranging Bronze Breasted Turkeys. I also have Dark Brahma chickens, and now 12 goats.

I have fun with my critters, if you click on my youtube name deckchick, I now have 20 ( I think) videos up of the various animals, usually making me laugh.

LOL, I hear ya, and thanks for the advice, I do try to do that. The problem is I just have a point and shoot digital camera. It has zero zoom or stability of any kind. I am just happy I get any video. My son the videographer keeps promising me a “real camera” so maybe one day. :stuck_out_tongue:

I was just amazed at the birds, they caught me off guard nd I more then anything wanted to show my son the range of them all. With any luck in the fall I will be able to do a much better job :smiley:

FarmerChick, may I ask - do you, ummm, eat your animals? It’s just that you seem so fond of them in your videos that I think it would be difficult to then have one of the turkeys for dinner…

Man, those geese are loud! And after seeing the size of goose droppings at a nearby lake, I wouldn’t want to be underneath that many should any feel the need to let loose with a giant load of goose poop!

Wow, Mike sounds exactly like a…uh…kid. :smiley: He’s very cute. Was he looking for his mom? Sounded to me like he was calling, “Ma? Ma? Maaaaaaaaaaa!!!”

Whynot Mike’s mom was just outside the door, he’s such a crybaby, she even ignores him! :stuck_out_tongue: His cry freaks people out the first time they hear it!

Surly Chick, yes I do raise my turkeys, chickens and pigs for food and sell them. Those turkeys though are my breeding ones, they will not be sold or eaten for a couple more years. :stuck_out_tongue:

I am very fond of all my animals, but the reality is they do cost money both to buy and to raise. I just try to make their life as enjoyable as possible for as long as they are here. They are treated very well, they are socialized, kept in a barn overnight and in bad weather, good food and pasture, and they are safe and happy. But it is hard when it is time to let them go, but that is the reality of farm life. :frowning:

Those geese really were amazing, I too was happy they didn’t poop on me, but it is supposed to bring good luck :smiley:

Wow, thanks for those videos! You are so incredibly lucky. Your farm and your animals are so beautiful.

What do you do with the goats? Milk? (You didn’t say in your post above that they’re sold for meat…)

FarmerChick - just watched all your videos, and I love all your animals!! Your dogs are great. You seem to live such an awesome life, I am so envious!

I thought this one was especially cute: Toby and Ricky (baby goats)

Thanks so much for sharing the videos with us!

Thanks nyctea scandiaca, my animals keep me sane and make me get up and out of the house. I am partial to Ricky and Toby myself. Unfortunately, little Ricky died this last Sunday. He probably got bloat after I fed and put them away for the night on Saturday. I lost a baby goat last year too, it sucks.

Yes, my goats are for milking. I have 3 baby girls and 4 extra boys. Those boys will be sold as pets (I can hope!) or for meat.