Recent content by Konza

Quote: Oh gosh, I've totally been there. Even waking up the poor sleep-deprived hubby to help me fight fire. I'm glad you were home to catch it!

Quote: Oh, is that what they've been trying to tell me this whole time? Do you think they get together and talk about how dumb and silly humans are?

Quote: Oh, it changes depending on what's going on. Getting herded back into the coop at night: But-WHY? But-WHY? Greeting us in the morning: Hey-GUYS! Hey-GUYS! Package arriving: Fed-EX! Fed-Ex! Darnit, now I miss those noisy girls.

Oh, I've been lurking. I might post more now that it's wintertime. A whole lot less daytime and most of it too cold to do anything good with. Unfortunately we're down to 3 guineas. We lost one early that got stuck between a wall and stock tank and beat itself to death, and then last month a hawk...

Had some interesting visitors this morning. I thought some of you would get a kick out of this pic: That's the neighbor's goat herd, out wandering. I guess they put another hole in their fence. They stopped by my place to snack on some acorns. Their LGD is still with them, he's that fuzzy...

I can sympathize. I just lost my last roo this morning, and I have no idea what's going on. The last four hens are pretty perky and have been wormed a few days ago, but if I lose one more chicken I'm going to see if the ag college can run some tests for me. I'm with you, I have to buy a new...

I just checked inside her vent. Managed to get my little finger in about 3/4 of the way to the first knuckle (and I have pretty long fingers) before I got pooped on for my trouble. There's a pic at the end of this post if you're brave. It was very watery, but I imagine it would be considering...

The whole flock is about 7 mos old. I will start looking into preventative worming since they free range, and there had been all kinds of birds on this property before we bought it. Even wild turkey hens like to nest in the brush near the coop. I do have some Ivermectin on hand but I'm uncertain...

One of the hens started walking around with just one slightly droopy wing about a week ago. Her comb fell over about then, too, but stayed red. A few days ago she started sleeping in the nest box instead of the roost, then yesterday she started refusing to come out of the coop and our roo Doc...

I guess I'm not the only one. Long time no post, but I just had to tell someone (who would care).... First egg!!

Mine do it when they're hungry, but I haven't given them any crumbles yet. Like first thing in the morning when I let them out to free range. That could very well be the attention-getting squawk. "Foodbringer, where is the food you were supposed to bring??"

And they are actually fairly quiet and well behaved...for guineas! They only peep when they have something to peep about, which is just fine with me. Right now they are in their own little pen inside the coop, so that they get a head start on learning that's where home is and getting used to the...

They can hear, just not quite like you and I do. My coop is made of stone and built into the ground. Those vibrations wouldn't have to travel far before reaching prime snake habitat. It could be a coincidence they showed up the night the guineas moved out, but it took them long enough to figure...

Quote: I hear ya. Yesterday I meant to spend all day in the garden that needs my attention so bad, but ended up snake-proofing the chicken coop instead. If those darn guineas had just kept their mouths shut, those big ol' black snakes would never have come sniffing around. At least I caught...