by divacrows | Oct 11, 2018 | Gwen & Stephen
I’m sure we’ve all seen the video clips of super savvy crows pulling up buckets on chains to get the treat and otherwise manipulating tools to complete subtle moves that result in obtaining a treat. I decided to test Gwen and Stephen to see how much...
by divacrows | Sep 22, 2017 | Digressions, Ginny, Raptors, Training
I have trained all the things! Or rather, all the animals! Well, more like lots of animals. Ok, seven animals. Except that I only observed while Anaka, a professional trainer, worked with a Red Tailed Hawk, Barred Owl, and Bobcat. But I really did train a chicken...
by divacrows | Jul 8, 2017 | Chicks
Q: Who, pray tell, is Caledonia? A: Caledonia is Gwen and Stephen’s youngest chick. She had a difficult hatch, which required extracting her from the nest branches and removing the egg shell that had dried on her. She got a nasty bump on the head as well. After...
by divacrows | May 29, 2017 | Breeding, Chicks
The chicks have exited the sort-of-cute teeny, tiny Purdue oven-stuffer roaster stage and entered the hideous “yes, Virginia, I’m a modern dinosaur” stage. Perhaps the plan is to discourage predators by being too ugly to eat. This lot is particularly...
by divacrows | Apr 16, 2017 | Breeding, Gwen & Stephen, Holiday
The fact that it is the season of renewal and new life (Happy Easter and Passover) does not seem to interest Gwen. Rather, I must conclude she is misnamed; apparently I was supposed to call her Penelope. At least her nest-building technique is inspired by Penelope,...
