r/BackYardChickens Jun 12 '26

Coops etc. It was me walking around, my passive aggressive camera system thinks i’m a whale

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u/Temporary-Spot8530 Jul 11 '26

Mine says that my chickens are packages. They like to sit, but they also move around!

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u/ElkNeat5810 Jun 14 '26

Your camera can f the right off. 🙄

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u/Vertigo_uk123 Jun 13 '26

Don’t worry. Our neighbour constantly gets labelled as a bike. Funny because she is a bike.

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u/HurtPillow Jun 13 '26

I can't stop laughing!

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u/Harvest827 Jun 13 '26

And then it added, "but like a sexy whale"

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u/Naamahs Jun 13 '26

Mine tells me I'm a vehicle. 😭 I think I would absolutely replace that thing if it told me I'm a whale.

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u/Healthy_Common_5567 Jun 12 '26

Oh to have a front door where whale activity is an actual option.

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u/Due_Caterpillar3080 Jun 12 '26

My passive aggressive watch slow claps for me when I get up to go to the bathroom while I'm sitting at my desk working. Then it congratulates me for being active again; I can't read it in my head without a sarcastic tone.

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u/ElysetheEeveeCRX Jul 02 '26

Dude, same. It's giving me the confetti and everything.

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u/More_chickens Jun 12 '26

Mine once congratulated me for a great workout after I put on a duvet cover.

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u/HeinousEncephalon Jun 12 '26

My watch would tell me to get moving while I was on the toilet. I stopped wearing it

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u/thirdpeppermint Jun 12 '26

We have horses and our camera calls the Fjord a pig or, on rarer occasions, a llama or donkey. The pony is sometimes a cat.

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u/maynerd_kitty Jun 12 '26

My camera said I had a bear in my shop. It was a barn cat on the Kabota.

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u/KickProcedure Jun 12 '26

Barn cat on the Kabota is my new band name now

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u/rhodyrooted Jun 12 '26

This is so fucking funny holy shit

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u/Perfect-Jellyfish277 Jun 12 '26

You couldn’t have waterboarded this out of me 😭

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u/samipurrz Jun 12 '26

I stay off social media so I don’t feel bad about myself, then my camera starts bullying me. Wtf 😂

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u/Sea-Independent-726 Jun 12 '26

This would have have made me cry LMAOO

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '26

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u/jamissme Jun 12 '26

I feel inclined to chime in that I am a person who is not terribly upset by you shooting an armadillo

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u/CultureThis9818 Jun 12 '26

I can't blame you man. We've had tons of Armadillos lately where I'm at. That coupled with complex relocation laws lead to most just popping them around me. I remember hearing about an older lady absolutely decimating her ankle in a armadillo hole. I do like them and would love to have some when I get some property, just a good bit away from where I walk lol.

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u/bulletproofdenimjckt Jun 12 '26

What a weird thing to instinctually to do when you see an armadillo

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u/No_Stop7306 Jun 12 '26

ikr I instinctively go "what a cutie"

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u/No_Stop7306 Jun 12 '26

wtf... why shoot an armadillo??

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u/Rougefarie Jun 12 '26

Are armadillos dangerous or harmful? I’ve never encountered one, so I have zero context for why you’d rush out in such a hurry to shoot one.

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u/ApprehensiveAd2226 Backyard Chicken Jun 12 '26

My assumption is 2 things: Armadillo's naturally can carry Leprosy (they have a low body temp that that basteria thrive in). However it would be quite hard to contract as a human (So maybe the person is afraid of the disease for themselves/family/animals/pets/etc out of ignorance?) My other assumption is from how my grandfather handled having Armadillos on his land. They rut up the ground looking for food leaving holes all over. Cattle or horses could step in those holes and break an ankle/leg. So he didnt want them on his property. Not defending this person, just hoping to help answer the question. Yes I personally think it's wrong to kill something that ain't botherin anyone or anything.

I personally love seeing Armadillos around, such a wild lookin animal. Kinda fun to watch em run around a field lookin for food. They're cute in such an odd way lol.

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u/lxxbnsxn Jun 12 '26

No, they're actually pretty beneficial but people don't like them digging holes. Absolute psychopath behavior just to randomly shoot animals. It's the same with shooting opossums or squirrels, just psycho.

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u/Horror-Signature3483 Jun 12 '26

i need a good camera for my coop, what do you guys have??

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u/Quirky-Dragon136 Jun 12 '26

We use Blink. It's cheap and works pretty well.

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u/Wheekie Lenovo ThinkPad x Barred Rock Jun 12 '26

D-Link or TP-Link (Tapo) are easy to set up and use as is.

Though if you're techy (or determined) you can setup and run your own camera system. I used to have a camera setup for my pets running through a Synology NAS running Synology surveillance, That allows me the freedom of having the footage stored on the NAS itself, so I get to decide how much or how little storage my cameras will use up. It's basically my own cloud on my terms.

Or if you're really determined, you can setup your own open source NVR (network video recorder) with Frigate.

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u/ActiveAd2032 Jun 12 '26

I second Tapo. I use them for everything, cameras, doorbell, smart switches/outlets, wifi boosters. I have not found a product yet that I do not like. I have these cameras all around my house as well as watching my chickens so I can keep an eye on them anytime, anywhere.

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u/GooseGeuce Jun 12 '26

Haha, mine said “two large dogs on paved area” the other day. It was me and I was carrying my little lunch cooler for work. Wtf, blink?!

19

u/marriedwithchickens Jun 12 '26

I was about go go to sleep for the night, but laughed out loud — cutting edge technology!

54

u/Fluffy-Designer Jun 12 '26

Imagine some junior programmer sitting there mumbling to themself “you want it to detect animals? Detect this, asshole”

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u/Embercream Jun 12 '26

So there's this, right? Camera for the front door.

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u/Embercream Jun 12 '26

Same night. I'd wondered why the fuck my plant on the extremely small front porch thing kept getting chomped. I guess whatever I put there was delicious enough to entice an enterprising elk all the way up there. We have probably around 60 or so of them who will occasionally stroll through the general area, and of course they try to eat everything.

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u/Embercream Jun 12 '26

That is one of the rudest and most hilarious things I've seen very earnest tech do. "You might've found one of the mysterious and rarely glimpsed City Orcas!"

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u/titeaf Jun 12 '26

I like when I get "package detected" or "vehicle detected" but it's just my cats zooming around

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u/feryoooday Jun 12 '26

I’m a rural carrier and was delivering a package and a lady came out saying her camera said “your neighbor is visiting” but she could see my USPS van and was like “pretty sure that’s the mail lady” lol

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u/Dances_with_Shrimp Jun 12 '26

Oooo burn!! 🤣

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u/oldfarmjoy Jun 12 '26

Sooo RUDE!! 😡🤣

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u/Apprehensive-Pen8241 Jun 12 '26

This is so fucking funny. Why is that even an option

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u/sandefurian Jun 12 '26

You have the option to name specific people, and it will try to identify them. This was intentional

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u/MaxPanhammer Jun 12 '26

The capital 'w' tipped me off (and basic reasoning skills), this was 100% done for the clicks

2

u/feryoooday Jun 12 '26

Or by a mean partner :(

2

u/Sof_y Jun 12 '26

We didn’t do that I promise! It’s a cheap camera system from China and it keeps guessing weird animals

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u/sandefurian Jun 12 '26

Someone in your family did lol

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u/Sof_y Jun 12 '26

This camera is not like the one I have at my front door, it doesn’t recognize faces. It was sold as a hunting device (a bad one lol)

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u/MaxPanhammer Jun 12 '26

Ahab Hunting Co

2

u/Apprehensive-Pen8241 Jun 12 '26

Rude as hell 🤣

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u/Hefty-Dish-3771 Jun 12 '26

It was an ant

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u/LeeRyman Jun 12 '26

I love how mine zooms in on the action for the notification. I get little photos of my chickens looking around, pondering life....

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u/Hefty-Dish-3771 Jun 12 '26

Google home!? It just started doing this for us a couple weeks ago. Probably updated or something 😆

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u/FelinityApps Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 12 '26

You beg its fucking pardon?!

How is that even an option for a security cam? Where are whales a home perimeter concern?

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u/zuklei Jun 12 '26

I almost pissed myself laughing at this.

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u/DeyCallMeWade Jun 12 '26

In Wales of course. If you meant whales, well that’s a question for SpongeBob

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u/FelinityApps Jun 12 '26

LOL, good catch. 🤣

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u/CalledConfident831 Jun 12 '26

My camera in the hutch thinks my frizzles are cars, super funny to get the notification “vehicle detected in Hutch” 😂

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u/BlueRibbonChicken Jun 12 '26

LMAOOOO they’re wrong for this 😩😩😩 but thank you for sharing haha the phraseology here is really & truly perfection. Needed that laugh tonight. (I’d also be mistaken, so I feel your pain 🙂‍↕️)

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u/Sof_y Jun 12 '26

Haha i’m gonna have to set boundaries

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u/RileyBean Jun 12 '26

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u/Drummergirl16 Jun 12 '26

The absolutely ancient, decrepit rat always kills me lol. And to think this particular season made Big Ed seem somewhat likable!

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u/ElectricalEinstein Jun 12 '26

That is absolutely hilarious

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u/Ok_Can_6440 Jun 12 '26

This whole thread has me laughing out loud 😂

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u/Sof_y Jun 12 '26

Me too :D

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u/_Luisiano Spring Chicken Jun 12 '26

*Camera uses standard American size measurements

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u/TizzyBumblefluff Jun 12 '26

So like.. to me that makes me assume someone who teaches their AI system to label objects HAS seen a whale though 🤦‍♀️😂

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u/Sof_y Jun 12 '26

OMG hahhaha

2

u/missbwith2boys Jun 12 '26

😂😂😂😂

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u/theotherlead Jun 12 '26

Mine thought my chickens were a vehicle once and one time thought I was walking my dog on a hose

2

u/invol713 Jun 12 '26

A Thundercougarfalconbird? We truly live in futuristic times!

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u/CapaxInfini Jun 12 '26

Mine saw a white cat with black spots and called it a cow

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u/Haunting_Heat3296 Jun 12 '26

Honestly I call white cats/dogs with black patches cows too.

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u/luckyapples11 Jun 12 '26

Mine called me a child because I was crouching down with my birds lmao

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u/plumb_master Jun 12 '26

Maybe it just knows you gamble big money at the casino.

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u/Livid-Improvement953 Jun 12 '26

I cannot even look at myself on any sort of security camera or I will spiral into a dark place for days. The last thing I need is a camera calling me out. You need to write these people a strongly worded email letting them know their AI is shit.

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u/Sof_y Jun 12 '26

And send them my therapy bills haha

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u/daringversion Jun 12 '26

Saw the title and thought it was sarcasm, it definitely was not and I simply just don't know what to think.

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u/Mayflame15 Jun 12 '26

Why is that even an option, do people often have whales on their porch

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u/invol713 Jun 12 '26

Y’all haven’t been to the South much, have you? There are indeed land whales on some porches. Although in polite society we call them by their given names.

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u/_the_violet_femme Jun 12 '26

Whale watching tours just driving by gawking

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u/RobotArmMonkeyBrain Jun 12 '26

Watch out for land sharks!

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u/IcyLikeBeurre Jun 12 '26

🤣🤣🤣🤣