Animal behavior and eclipse

[Ky hills]

Saw this article and it mentions something like make sure your cattle and horses aren’t rampaging through fences.
Not sure how to prevent that, animals have been getting spooked for ever by various things, not sure how the eclipse would cause that,
I could see chickens going to roost.
https://www.wkyt.com/2024/04/01/keep-an-eye-your-animals-during-solar-eclipse/?outputType=amp

 

[Ouachita]

Animals are more in tune with nature, at least the larger majority of them are. It’s the humans that I am monitoring for. Damn people **** everywhere, and throw trash. It’s the trash that’s different.

 

[TexasJerseyMilker]

In my experience the eclipses come and go slowly and animals do not seem to notice or care.
It is very cool however. This was Oregon 8/21/2017

 

[kenny thomas]

How long does the eclipse last

 

[sstterry]

How long does the eclipse last

Two and a half hours, from the moment the moon begins crossing in front of the sun to when it completely moves out of its way.

 

[kenny thomas]

Hmmmmm, enough time to take a good nap. Is that the same for our area?

 

[Brute 23]

During the last one I watched cattle bedding down. Guess they thought it was a storm or night time.

 

[CowboyRam]

During the 2017 eclipse I noticed that it got very quite. No birds chirping, no wind while in full eclipse. It didn't seem to bother the dog at all.

 

[greybeard]

total eclipse here is going to be about 4 1/2 minutes (darkness). Drive about 80 miles south to Austin and total eclipse is just over 1 minute

 

[kenny thomas]

total eclipse here is going to be about 4 1/2 minutes (darkness). Drive about 80 miles south to Austin and total eclipse is just over 1 minute

So all this is over 4.5 minutes?

 

[Ouachita]

So all this is over 4.5 minutes?

Yes. You don’t have to use the egg timer that day.

 

[greybeard]

So all this is over 4.5 minutes?

Yes, and, you have to spread that out over 627 years, since that's how long it has been since the last total solar eclipse here in central Texas. That was in year 1397.

 

[4hfarms]

Last one I saw was while stationed in Germany a little over 20 years ago. Dark enough to have the streetlights come on during lunch.

 

[Little Joe]

How long does the eclipse last

Shows about 4 minutes of total eclipse in my area and down into Texas.

 

[TexasJerseyMilker]

It was really cool to look at the fully eclipsed sun in 2017 (with special glasses of course). You could see all the solar flares like the mane of a fiery horse.

 

[TexasJerseyMilker]

https: //twitter.com/ DividendMaster/ status/ 1775322492636168575

This tweet link won't load but it's an eclipse on the beech involving girls.

Take out the spaces in the above link, paste to your browser and you can see this total eclipse.

 

[Gale Seddon]

What I noticed here was the complete absence of birds at the feeders during the eclipse and for a short time afterwards. They weren't back in full force today either. The donkeys didn't notice anything, but not much distracts them their grazing anyway.

 

[4hfarms]

Our chickens came back to the coop. I would assume to roost, but it was over before they all came home.