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Sycamore Springs: There are lots of predictors in animal world

Birds or chickens, pigs, cows, horses all have different behaviors before bad weather. God gave them good sense, she says. The signs are numerous and accurate: From the presence of more Gulls in the Green River Plaza Parking lot to the nest building frenzy of Petals the Pig, signs of coming bad weather can be read in the world of animals. BTW: Petals prognostications are 100% accurate, the Sage of Sycamore Springs writes
Comments re article 42254 Do birds sense bad weather coming

By Cynthia Meyer
My mother always said if the birds or chickens are out and about during a rain, you can be sure it will be an all day rain. You usually see more gulls in the parking lots over in Campbellsville when we are heading into bad weather as well.



Pigs sure will let you know, horses will too. Just before a cold snap Petals (my mini pig) will start to collect small branches, sticks and leaves. She will work most of the day going back and forth collecting for her nest. So far her predictions are 100 percent accurate.

The horses however are a bit more difficult to read.:
  • Just rain, even heavy rain or thunderstorms: they will stand with their hindquarters to the oncoming rain in an open pasture.
  • High winds: If we have high winds, they will find a low spot, and stand just below the pasture just barely in the woods line. I do not ever remember seeing them stand under a tree in a thunderstorm like cows sometimes do.
I am not sure exactly why, but I guess it is their instinct that tells them that being in the open will make them vulnerable to flying debris, and by being in the woods they may get hit by falling limbs, and branches. So therefore they find a happy medium as to where they feel the safest.

Hence the main reason I never liked putting a horse in a stall during bad weather. I always thought that God would give them the good sense to be where they would be safest; where as being locked in a stall might mean serious injury or death.


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Animals predicting weather: Petals builds nest, pre-storm



2011-02-04 - Sycamore Springs, KY - Photo by Cynthia Meyer.
The Crabby Pig: "Petals in one of her nests, getting ready for bad weather coming in," writes Cynthia Meyer, who elaborates on the true personality of Petals. "Don't let the picture of Petals fool you," she says. "She may look like she is smiling, but she is not!!" Cynthia Meyer, comments. "Over all she is pretty much a crabby pig...kinda like a cat in a pig suit. Make sure she has food and water. And leave her alone for the most part. She sometimes 'talks' to the horses. Oddly enough. They stand there and listen to her oink and grunt. I once told a woman in Glasgow about my dream restaurant. After I got through describing it, she asked me the name... I replied, The Crabby Pig Cafe; I would only sell chicken, beef and fish... no pork"

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