I just need to find someone that will pluck their guineas for me!
I never have any luck with those things but really like their feathers.
Blue/Brown Eggs, Easter/Christmas Eggs - Getting my craft on!!
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Gorgeous eggs and GREAT JOB.
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Thanks guys! Yeah, I have had a hard time with mine as well, when I got babies, everytime it would get really humid and rainy, I would lose some...even when they were under heat and all that. They seem to be very susceptible to humidy till they are about 3-4 months old, and this is the south, and they are from Africa! So, I have one pair, a male/female pair, thankfully from 2 different batches that I bought, wondering when she will start laying.... Ive found I like keeping just a couple more than a flock of them though... they get braver, the more there are, I live about 1000 ft off the road, and you cannot see the house from it, they would go off into neighbors yards (and its a neighborhood at the end of my driveway. Now that I only have 2, they stay pretty close, and go into the pen a lot easier at night. Also, last year, I had one that would lead all the others onto my husbands mustang hood...I had to have the entire car rebuffed, and touched up
They only peck at my trucks chrome now, lol.
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Nah, you just need to ask a couple of kids to collect feathers for you. All three of my children have feather collections. I'd send you some guinea feathers, but one gal disappeared during a snow storm and the other was apparently carried off by coyotes. She put up one heck of a fight. I followed the trail of feathers and blood across a couple of snow covered fields. If she fought the canines like she fought us when we were being NICE, I do believe there are a few coyotes with permanent scars.
The guineas were an impulse buy. When they started pecking the babies they had been with for months, I started to regret that purchase. When one started trying to kill my two Silkie roosters, I Really regretted it. We didn't get the Guinea Look Out Tower completed, so they hung around outside the runs. Stupid things didn't know they were supposed to roost. We will do much more research and have a tower (small coop on stilts with windows) before we bring them home, too. So any way, the remaining guinea feathers in the collections are "memorials" now.
Oh well, back to reading all your ideas so I can steal them later! I think I want a Dremel for Christmas.
Nah, you just need to ask a couple of kids to collect feathers for you. All three of my children have feather collections. I'd send you some guinea feathers, but one gal disappeared during a snow storm and the other was apparently carried off by coyotes. She put up one heck of a fight. I followed the trail of feathers and blood across a couple of snow covered fields. If she fought the canines like she fought us when we were being NICE, I do believe there are a few coyotes with permanent scars.
The guineas were an impulse buy. When they started pecking the babies they had been with for months, I started to regret that purchase. When one started trying to kill my two Silkie roosters, I Really regretted it. We didn't get the Guinea Look Out Tower completed, so they hung around outside the runs. Stupid things didn't know they were supposed to roost. We will do much more research and have a tower (small coop on stilts with windows) before we bring them home, too. So any way, the remaining guinea feathers in the collections are "memorials" now.
Oh well, back to reading all your ideas so I can steal them later! I think I want a Dremel for Christmas.
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Sometime when they really irritate me again, maybe Ill pluck them for you!
Sometime when they really irritate me again, maybe Ill pluck them for you!
Gorgeous! How did you do the fillegree! If you don't mind sharing???
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Chick named Lola.. I free handed it, used acrylic paint markers. I am plan to use actual acrylics and paintbrushes for my next set.
I am planning on giving some as Christmas gifts, and I think these cartons http://www.eggcartonsonline.com/ecom-prodshow/6-Plastic-Egg-Carton.html with a printed label with a picture of some of my hens that says something like "lovingly laid by the Roe farm hens" or something like that will be cute... hopefully they will fit in those cartons... what do you think?
I am planning on giving some as Christmas gifts, and I think these cartons http://www.eggcartonsonline.com/ecom-prodshow/6-Plastic-Egg-Carton.html with a printed label with a picture of some of my hens that says something like "lovingly laid by the Roe farm hens" or something like that will be cute... hopefully they will fit in those cartons... what do you think?
Wow freehand!! I was thinking of trying that with those metallic markers, I don't think I'm talented enough but I'm gonna try! Yours are beautiful!
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Sometime when they really irritate me again, maybe Ill pluck them for you!
I bought something like 20 once and raised them on my screened in back porch. Once they were grown I figured they were old enough to go out and free range and return to the porch at night but the first time I opened the door they went flying into the trees and gullies. Never saw them again. Heard them for a few days but after that only found piles of feathers here and there where they had been eaten by something. Said I would never bother with them again. If (really big IF ) I ever do try and raise them again, I was told that they do best if you allow a broody hen to raise them with her other chicks and they will learn to go to roost with the chickens. Not tested that theory out yet.
Sometime when they really irritate me again, maybe Ill pluck them for you!
I bought something like 20 once and raised them on my screened in back porch. Once they were grown I figured they were old enough to go out and free range and return to the porch at night but the first time I opened the door they went flying into the trees and gullies. Never saw them again. Heard them for a few days but after that only found piles of feathers here and there where they had been eaten by something. Said I would never bother with them again. If (really big IF ) I ever do try and raise them again, I was told that they do best if you allow a broody hen to raise them with her other chicks and they will learn to go to roost with the chickens. Not tested that theory out yet.
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Oh wow! I thought you had just used rub-ons. Great job!
Oh wow! I thought you had just used rub-ons. Great job!
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