ursulavernon:

white-aster:

murdorito:

windows7virus:

bookrat:

One of my hens attempted to crow this morning.

I didn’t realize it at the time. No, my immediate assumption was that something was brutally murdering one of my birds. I rushed to the rescue only to find the yard conspicuously empty of threats, but I didn’t relax until that awful rasping caw came again from my right.

Here she is compared to another black bantam I got at the same time as her. Her comb and wattles are huge, but I just kinda disregarded it because those two aren’t the same breed even though they’re similar looking. Shouldn’t have, that comb is almost rooster-sized regardless of breed differences.

Just wanted to share, I figured Tumblr would get a kick out of a non-binary chicken.

Years ago I had something similar happen. In the early spring a batch of mixed breed chicks hatched (all I can remember is that they were ¼ silkie) as the months passed and the chicks grew and their sex characteristics developed, all hens… sort of.

One bird, a petite black hen, started crowing, by the fall she was crowing just as well and often as the roosters we kept in the coop. But it didn’t stop there. During the winter I noticed this hen exclusively roosting with other hens, not that odd, but then one day I saw her mounting them.

When we let them out off the coop to free-range in the spring she had a small harem of other hens. They would follow her, “mate” with her, and only roost next to her, and, if a rooster antagonized her or her harem, she would spar with him (not always successfully).

So remember, if anyone tries to explain away non-binary identities with a “Natural Order of Things” argument, flap aggressively at him and try to stab him with your leg spurs.

nonbinary chickens are pretty common! Reason #89574897345 why I fucking love chickens.

“So remember, if anyone tries to explain away non-binary identities with a “Natural Order of Things” argument, flap aggressively at him and try to stab him with your leg spurs."

❤ 😀

There was a case of a peahen doing this awhile ago, and actually grew part of the dramatic tail and everything. Birds are AWESOME.

Source: bookrat

essayofthoughts:

indigoumbrella:

essayofthoughts:

indigoumbrella:

huffpostarts:

In The Not So Distant Future, Glow-In-The-Dark Trees Could Replace Street Lights

Is that… is that even healthy?

There are sea organisms and fungi which glow in the dark and there’s fireflies and jellyfish which glow in the dark. It doesn’t do them any harm nor does it do the people around them any harm. I would say its pretty healthy, as well as it would mean more photosynthesis happening in cities which mean cleaner air.

I was just curious about how they were doing it and for some reason I didn’t think to click the link. But thanks! It makes more sense now. I was afraid it was some kind of chemical thing.

nah just genetic modification using existing bioluminescent genes. Genetics is really cool, and so is bioluminescence. I mean they’ve already made pigs glow using jellyfish genes and pigs are waaay more complicated than trees iirc. So they’re actually (i think) less likely to muck it up with trees.

In which case

GLOWY

FORESTS

GLOWY

TREES

GLOWY

EVERYTHING

(I like glowy things)

fanpup:

Who Are You…?

An alchemist with a blessed harp and a fierce stallion.

Source: fanpup

opalhonors:

ladyofthewhitetree:

please someone tell me
how does one simply go on living and go take a stupid calc test after reading a Young Wizard book and feeling like you’ve been a conduit for immense power and energy and beauty and emotion
how do you just go on after that

By knowing that Nita Callahan needs calc to do some of her spell circles? By knowing that you might not know when you need to do a spell circle, but it won’t be the one you think, lines of fire and starlight, but rather lines of ink and tears, and yet they might have the same effect, as you prove mathematically how something being done might improve cleanliness or reduce pollution?

We might not have Enacture. But we can still do what’s necessary.

Reblog if you love Studio Ghibli

feliksday:

feliksday:

If you are a fan of Studio Ghibli, please reblog this so that I can use your url to fill up my newest project.I will be sure to post pictures as I fill this in. If you’re interested in seeing my previous projects, you can click here to see them.

I am going to need a lot of urls to fill this in so please reblog and spread this around on tumblr. Thank you!

Update: I’ve put in about 250 urls so far and am pretty happy with how is is coming out. Please keep reblogging guys!