Hello Steemit! With you @milaoz. Today I want to tell the second part of the continuation weekend.

After the "horse ranch" we visited no less interesting place "Ostrich farm."

On the "Оstrich farm" other than ostriches there are many other wonderful animals about which I, too, will tell.

"Ostrich farm" and other animals living on the farm.

I had never seen ostriches. I was surprised how big they are both high and at the same time very beautiful. I wanted to feed them, I took a bit of carrot, they are very fond of her.

I fed two large ostrich was one with black feathers and the other with a nice gray plumage.

Some facts about ostriches.

Ostrich - is the largest bird. Average growth of ostriches reaches 2.5 meters and weighs about 120 kg. There are several types of ostriches, but they all share one feature ostriches - they can not fly, but the owls are the best runners of all two-legged animals. The ostrich can run at speeds up to 70 km per hour!

Most of the height of the bird falls on the long legs and neck, but the ostrich's head, on the contrary, is very small compared to the size of the body.

Even smaller brain that ostriches did not exceed the value of the walnut.

Feathers of ostrich grow evenly throughout the body, while the majority of the birds are placed on special lines - pteriliyam.

Do ostriches pecs are relatively poorly developed, ostrich so completely unable to fly. But ostrich legs perfectly adapted to run.

Do ostriches clearly expressed sexual dimorphism: males are larger and have a black color, the ends of the feathers on the wings and tail are white, the females are gray-brown and smaller.

Ostriches eat mostly plant foods, but rather be called omnivores.

Along with grass, leaves and fruits, they eat insects, small lizards, turtles, and even birds and animals.

Оstrich eggs are the largest in the world.

Оstrich eggs are nearly spherical shape of 15 cm long, 13 cm wide and white glossy shell.

Еggs shell is very thick and strong and able to withstand the weight of an adult.

Other animals that live on the farm.

Raccoon.

After watching and feeding the ostriches we went on to watch other animals.

At first we saw a cute raccoon. I gave it a try carrots.

Raccoons - Predators.

Weight and dimensions similar to a small keg raccoon: body reaches up to 65 cm in length, weight - 10 kg.

Raccoon is omnivorous, he willingly eats berries, worms, insects, frogs, small rodents.

Interesting facts about raccoons.

Raccoons are perfectly climb trees, including the horizontal branch (as monkeys or sloths).
In case of danger raccoons play dead.
Paws raccoon akin to human hands - with thin fingers. Tenacious fingers raccoon easily grab all sorts of items.
Male raccoons early separated from his mother, and tend to live separately. Meeting with neighbors in the forest are often not happy animal.

Owls.

Not far from the raccoon sat quietly in the grass owl.

Owls are very smart birds.

As birds of prey, owls prey on other smaller birds, insects and small animals. They live alone.

Owls night creatures.

Interesting facts about owls.

Brushes on the head of an owl - no ears.
Owls may eat prey larger than themselves.
Many owls do not thump and screaming.
They are silent killers.

Peacock.

Going further, we noticed the wonderful beauty of the peacock.

The peacock is the most beautiful bird in the world, and the peacock's tail has an extraordinary beauty.

Peacock's voice sharp and not very pleasant.

The body length of the male peacock reaches 100-125 cm, tail length - 40-50 cm.

The weight of the male peacock is 4 - 4.25 kg.

Interesting facts about the peacock.

Peacock - a very close relative of the rooster.
Peacock is famous for its beautiful fluffy tail, which have only males, females tails are much more modest.
Thanks to its wonderful tail and royal appearance, peacocks for a long time held the palaces.
They are fearful of any rustle and quickly run away.
In Christianity, the peacock was a symbol of immortality.
In some countries it is considered that a peacock brings trouble and put in the house of peacock feathers bad omen.

Ducks.

Then in a small pond we saw a duck swimming.

I tried to feed them a little.

Duck relates to the class of birds, waterfowl detachment, the family of ducks and waterfowl genus

Because of grease, oil gland that stands out, the outer feathers duck is waterproof.

This waterfowl can take off even after long-term water treatment.

Interesting facts about ducks.

Only females quacking ducks.
Quacking duck does not echo.
Ducks cervical vertebrae longer than a giraffe.
Ducks waddling walk because they have short legs wide apart. to walk, they have to waddle all over.
Ducks are able to dive to a depth of 6 meters for food production.

Guinea fowl.

Then we met a very unusual and beautiful bird like a chicken.

Outside guinea fowl is very original, it is a bit like a pet turkey. The size is not larger than guinea fowl domestic chicken. She has a strong body with almost horizontal dense plumage, staring just down a short tail and long neck, the upper portion of which is in contact with the head, almost opera, and is covered with leathery outgrowths. The skin at the site of a bluish color, while the head itself sometimes has a reddish-gray narrow collar. Colour trunk guinea fowl quite monotonous - dark shade with small light spots.

They enjoy eating sunflower seeds.

Interesting facts about guinea fowl.

Not everyone knows that the meat of these birds is different saturation of nutrients.
The eggs of these birds also have high nutritional value because they contain a variety of vitamins, as well as phosphorus, potassium, calcium, iron, amino acids, carotenoids, vitamin A.
In addition, the protein has bactericidal properties.

Rabbits.

We also met a very cute rabbits.

Rabbits are mammals detachment rabbits.

Rabbits are pretty cheesy to the choice of habitat.

Interesting facts about rabbits.

World record among rabbits in long jump is 3 meters.
The largest litter, which brought the rabbit, was 24 cub.
Age of the oldest rabbit was, at the time of death, 19 years.
The weight of the heaviest rabbit is - 26 pounds and 7 ounces.
Rabbits in something similar to humans. For example, they may snore! Not all rabbits snore, but some do it with great pleasure.

Chickens Silkie.

Not the standard appearance of silk gives the hens feathers, at first glance resembles wool.

Feathers these silk chickens do not have hooks and that's why they can not engage with each other. Juvenile moulting they do not.

Also a kind of silk plumage this bird has a very distinctive blue-black color of the skin, peritoneal coverings, periosteum and crest. It is because of this feature, and it got the name - black.

The breed has a fairly large size, middle silk cock weighs 1.7 kg, and chicken - 1.35 kg

Interesting facts about Silkie.

The first European to write about Chinese silky chickens, was Marco Polo. In the XIII century, during a trip to Asia he mentioned in the notes of chickens with fur like feathers, "kind of domestic chicken, the skin instead of feathers which was covered with black hair."

"Ostrich farm". As interesting and exciting, I spent the weekend. Part 2.