Chicken (Poultry) Addiction Anonymous *Chat Thread*

[Muggsmagee]

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Really, that is crazy!

My guineas beat up my chickens, my chickens cower in the corner when a guinea walks past...

I'm hoping since I got rid of 3 mean Lav males and a female that the other guineas will calm down, but I doubt it. The females are just as "sweet" as can be, but the males are a different matter.

I think it's because I had a LOT of guineas.. the guinea expert on byc says you need at least 10 to keep them from picking on the chickens. I had 17. I loved my guineas, but the noise level was just too much. They are really goofy birds tho and would greet me in my driveway every day honking non stop.

You really make me want guineas. I just think of the pleasure they would bring me knowing their honking would be driving my neighbor NUTS!

 

[featherz]

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Oh it would.. especially if you have as many as I had. I almost wanted to wear earplugs when I'd go in the coop.. and they would.not.stop .. I hear after a year they quiet down and MAYBE if they hadn't insisted on standing on my lawn hollering to the neighbors I could have kept them. DH wants me to try again, so I may hatch some this year and we'll park a coop way out in the woods. He loves the tick eating, plus they don't dig holes everywhere like chickens and they have smaller less smelly poo too. perfect birds except for the little noise problem. LOL.

Hey, they do come in lavender, would fit right in at your house!

 

[Muggsmagee]

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Oh it would.. especially if you have as many as I had. I almost wanted to wear earplugs when I'd go in the coop.. and they would.not.stop .. I hear after a year they quiet down and MAYBE if they hadn't insisted on standing on my lawn hollering to the neighbors I could have kept them. DH wants me to try again, so I may hatch some this year and we'll park a coop way out in the woods. He loves the tick eating, plus they don't dig holes everywhere like chickens and they have smaller less smelly poo too. perfect birds except for the little noise problem. LOL.

Hey, they do come in lavender, would fit right in at your house!

I like it! I do want some lav guineas. Maybe I should try to hatch just 2 of them?

The farm behind my house sold...dashing my dreams a little. I have been scouring the real estate looking for a farm with woods and a pond and a barn and a decent house...apparently the farm of my dreams is not easy to come by.

If I take on guineas, I have no treas for them to roost in. My neighbor does though!

We have one huge oak is by the front road (not ideal), the big blue spruce is coming down for a new driveway and all the other trees are babies...the tallest being 8 ft! I would have to coop them, right? Is that a bad thing? Do you all clip your guineas feathers?

 

[featherz]

I cooped my guineas.. they would occasionally roost in a tree but for the most part they marched right to the coop with the chickens. I think having them with chickens helped - they are very 'hivemind', or at least mine were. They would march wing to wing most of the time! LOL. I never clipped their wings.

 

[Muggsmagee]

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Now I'm really getting tempted! Okay, do you eat their eggs? And, can you eat them?

Not that I want to, I am just checking my options!

 

[jadeflower999]

LOL! I just posted on another thread that I needed poultryholics anonymous for my addiction and now I just found this! I guess fate is telling me I really do need help JK

 

[Muggsmagee]

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Ohhh...sorry...we don't help. We listen, we advise, we enable.

Ha ha! And welcome to our thread!

 

[featherz]

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Now I'm really getting tempted! Okay, do you eat their eggs? And, can you eat them?

Not that I want to, I am just checking my options!

I didn't have them long enough to eat eggs (they only lay from spring to fallish) but they look just like chicken eggs. I hear they are yummy. As for eating the guineas themselves, no clue from this veggie chick.

You might WANT to when the neighbors come over waving the noise ordinance law!

 

[daisychick]

Hi to all!

I have been busy busy and haven't stopped by here in a few days! I just put 20 eggs in lockdown today and I have 4 under a broody all due on Sat.! Can't wait to see the isa/JG eggs and the Marans. I am hoping for some Splash Marans, and then I am going to have all the ingredients to make some Splash Olive Eggers.

I got to see a protective goose in action this weekend. My geese are 10 weeks old today and the gander totally chased a new person in my yard back to their truck. Then he ran back to his "mamma" which is me and looked all proud of himself. So I am not sure what to do about this little problem. I do not want mean geese, but I don't think he was being mean. I think if the person wouldn't of ran, the goose wouldn't of continued his chase. There was some different than usual honking going on so I just am not sure.

 

[Muggsmagee]

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Oh no! I am laughing and wonder if I shouldn't be!?! Hilarious...I wish I could have witnessed it. There is a study that people are more afraid of geese than dogs. Did you praise your gander? I would have died if I were you...what to do, what to do? Do you step in and call him off, or let him do what comes naturally and reassure the person who ran off? Oh my...that would have been exciting to watch. I find myself a little twisted today!