My guinea keets are ten(ish) weeks old and have mastered flying and are like small versions of Momma Guinea now. She went in the coop last night to roost, but they couldnt figure out how to go in the gate. Same gate it has always been.,,but now I have an electric fence around the pen...not the gate. Fence is off except at night- for exactly this reason. So, they went back and forth back and forth in front of the pen, trying to go in instead of going to the gate.
It was getting dark so I tried to herd them,,,,hahahaha..... around and around the pen we went, past the gate, one two three four times...my old self was done with that foolishness.,, so I tried cornering them and snatching them up like I would any wayward chicken... ( learned NOTHING from getting my butt beat by Mama Guinea)...they reminded me of a covey of quail and flew straight up past my face- not over the fence, oh no that would have been too simple.So.. I grabbed the net.
Every rooster I own set off the ITS THE NET THE SCARY NET alarm, and the babies ran in to the pen. Up on to the coop roof, and up Mount Everest... well, the giant giant giant tree behind the coop. And they kept going ,,,, up up up... they perched on the highest branches they could in that darn tree. I am pretty sure they can see across the state of Alabama in that position.
Im not worried about any ground predator getting them way up there- sure do hope no owl decided it would like guinea dinner. I am sure Mama Guinea will call them down this morning- and hopefully they figure out how to fly down without ending up at the neighbors house.
It was getting dark so I tried to herd them,,,,hahahaha..... around and around the pen we went, past the gate, one two three four times...my old self was done with that foolishness.,, so I tried cornering them and snatching them up like I would any wayward chicken... ( learned NOTHING from getting my butt beat by Mama Guinea)...they reminded me of a covey of quail and flew straight up past my face- not over the fence, oh no that would have been too simple.So.. I grabbed the net.
Every rooster I own set off the ITS THE NET THE SCARY NET alarm, and the babies ran in to the pen. Up on to the coop roof, and up Mount Everest... well, the giant giant giant tree behind the coop. And they kept going ,,,, up up up... they perched on the highest branches they could in that darn tree. I am pretty sure they can see across the state of Alabama in that position.
Im not worried about any ground predator getting them way up there- sure do hope no owl decided it would like guinea dinner. I am sure Mama Guinea will call them down this morning- and hopefully they figure out how to fly down without ending up at the neighbors house.
