A summer evening in the chicken yard at Izzy's Ranch.

Posted by Izzy Weird on July 19, 2025, 8:06 pm

Old coop can be seen - upper center New coop (under construction) - upper left Old coop interior roosts - lower right camera Chicken breeds: 3-Speckled Sussex, 2-Novogen Brown, 1-Black Australorp, 1-Welsummer Most cameras are powered over Ethernet (POE), some are pan/tilt/zoom (PTZ). Need a new camera? Just run some Cat-6 from the POE switch in the new coop.

The chicken yard cameras at Izzy's Ranch.

Posted by Izzy Weird on July 21, 2025, 8:24 pm, in reply to "A summer evening in the chicken yard at Izzy's Ranch."

This equipment was cheap too. POE fixed camera: $36.99 PTZ/POE camera w/ optical zoom: $123.49 (Two more on order) 8-port Netgear POE switch: $70.00 Blue Iris Software $59.99 (Cat6 cables extra) The biggest network switch here at the “ranch” is in the new chicken coop. How many chicken coops have network connectivity? Power over Ethernet makes this so easy to set up. The cameras have lots of features I don’t use, like motion detection, alarms and recording to (removable) flash memory. The pictures are screen shots. The IR night vision is very useful, especially if you’re working a rat problem like I am right now. Can you spot the three rats?