Posts by prairie

I never had any trouble with my guineas returning to the coop until the last few nights and I found them in the trees near our house and it was too dark to try to coax them into the coop.  Some of mine too are about 3-4 month old...

crazy, dumb, flighty, indignant and terribly amusing.   Now this is a great description!!  Love my birds!

Those are gorgeous -- whatever color they are   

great photo of your flock!

Well mama kept them out all afternoon and when i went to check about 6pm to make sure all had returned to the house she was not in the chicken house with her babies.  Finally found her behind the chicken house snuggled with her...

Well, I finallly got a count on the babies my hen hatched -- 12 keets and 6 eggs didn't hatch.  We had moved the nest so that we could keep her penned for a few days and  all went well with that.  They are about 5 days...

great pics, Karen!  Our guineas love dust bathing too but hubby isn't too happy right now with them because they like to dust bathe where he is trying to get grass seed to grow!  So he hauled in some nice loose manure dirt...

Well, mama is sitting really tight because of our cool weather but I am hoping to get pics this weekend.  This morning just one of them peeped out from under her.  I hate to make her mad so she will come off the nest so will...

Hi all, I haven't been on here in a while -- tad busy with life!    But I had a guinea hen who laid her nest in our large chicken coop (all our guineas and chickens roost at night in the coop) Well I was worried about...

Danz -- I know my dogs will miss the ducks but I don't want to go through winter having to make sure they have enough water.  :(  They are so pretty!  I have put them on the Poultry Swap page but will prob just end up...