Hi !
I'm from SW Missouri, Buffalo is our address but we're closer to Halfway. We have a "bunch" of guineas that are free roaming and they're the biggest pets. They come up on the back porch in the mornings to peck at the glass and wait for me to throw out some whole corn. A couple of the white one's like to eat from my hand. We have white, buff, lavender, purple and the original pearls. When I drive in, the guineas come running and flying from all over the pasture to greet me and look for handouts. They also come running from all over when I step outside and hollar "KIDS!". They are collectively called the kids except for my one oldest guinea, "Chick", he's been here for several years.
We also have 9 hens of all sorts (will be getting more this summer) and a couple of roosters. My older rooster is Jim Dandy, he's a barred rock and he's the rooster on my avatar. The hens vary from larger heavy hens to bantam. I'm not sure the breeds but I think a few are pure breds and some are mixed. One is an Araucana for sure but the others I'm not familiar with. Diamond is my pet. She's a game hen and small but I'm not sure if she's a bantam. She follows me around when I let them out and prefers to be handfed. She's even learned to jump up on the roost and I tell her to step up and she hops over to my forearm like my parrot does. She loves to be petted and will follow me into the feed room and where ever I go. The others come when called but she's a true pet and even looks up and comes to her name.
We have 40 acres and in addition to the poultry, we have mules, a mammoth jack, MFT mares and ponies as well as llama's, an African Grey parrot, a manx cat, a boxer and a stock dog. The dogs are the guardians of the farm and protect the chickens and guineas. They let them all eat from their own dishes and will lay in the middle of the chickens while they peck all around them without twitching a whisker at them. If any possums or raccoons dare come near the chickens, they are promptly killed by the dogs.
