Chicken (Poultry) Addiction Anonymous *Chat Thread*

[ChickenAlgebra]

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Our standard guineas live with the chickens/ducks outside of spring breeding. Mostly because they don't always get along so well, so the guineas are happier to live in their own breeding pen. If it's free range season here, they all run together.

Our jumbo guineas like the LF chickens. However, the itty bitty bantam Cochins are the tangible proof of evil and must be ran from in absolute terror. BIG male who was dancing for a lovely hen and a bantam Cochin girl saw him and went "Ohhh, you sexy boy" and went towards him. EVIL EVIL EVIL, the full blown panic horrid terror screaming and the male turns around and sprints away with the bantam popping along after him going "Oh sexy boy, come back please, oh please...."

People witnessed this panic stricken HUGE guinea run from this 1.5 pound ball of fluff who was just in lust after his lovely guinea self. Said people then hit the ground ROLLING at the scene, which EEEP ALERT ALERT ALERT DANGER scream even more.

The jumbos live with the peas to everyone's mutual agreement. The guineas avoid the evil fluffy marshmellows, the peahens have their adorable babies or something - no idea what those girls are thinking some days.

 

[daisychick]

And that is why I love watching all of my creatures, I could do it for hours. They kill me with the funny things they do!

 

[featherz]

My guineas lived in harmony with my chickens - we tried to separate them once and that didn't work out so well. I tried to explain that the coop was not meant to hold that many birds but after hearing a few hours of 'OUR PACK IS NOT COMPLETE!!!' yelling we put them back together. Hahahaha.. My hubby wants guineas again, so I'm planning to hatch more if he'll build a coop waaaaay far away from the neighbors.

here's my movie of my older keets trying to get out of the scary coop, if you haven't already seen it :

 

[featherz]

So I cleaned the back coop today.. or tried to.. I got about 3/4 done and had to stop. Deep litter over an entire winter is a LOT of shavings! I'll do it again in a few weeks to get the edges.. Got a really colorful shot of the girls (and guy), and another shot of one pullet who insist that UNDER the fancy nest box is where she want to lay her little egg. grr. Plus I could not clean out that section since she decided to do it RIGHT THEN.

Hmm. almost out of space, I guess I need to stop cheaping out and get a GFM. LOL.

 

[Muggsmagee]

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Your EE with the lacing is gorgeous!!

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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Love the nesting box idea!

 

[ChickenAlgebra]

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It was the funniest thing out there seriously. You have this macho big 7.3 lb guinea male showing off for his pretty 6.1 lb girlfriend. Well, his strutting and dancing about worked. On a itty bitty Cochin. Ok buddy, you have dang near 6 pounds on her. Thank you for not paying notice to her as you'd have turned her into a Cochin Pancake had you listened to her ideas.

However, running in terror from a bouncing marshmellow who you weigh 5 times more than is not exactly the most manly behavior out there.

Be thankful that your lovely girlfriends are equally weird and thus find the bouncing marshmellow equally terrifying and thus will not join in laughing at your danger screams. Instead we will have guineas who are 4 times the size of the marshmellow joining you in running in terror while screaming about the danger.

Which of course sets off the regular guineas who normally think the bouncing marshmellow flock are just weird looking birds, but nothing dangerous. So therefore, the 20 or so of them set off running in terror while screaming about the danger.

So we had 5 jumbo and 20 regular guineas alerting the danger scream over a bouncing marshmellow who just LOVED one of them. And was then bouncing around the yard going "But where is that sexy boy now...."

Not sure what part was the funniest. The danger screams and running is normal enough - lord knows that grass looked at them funny or something. But geesh, it's a tiny little chicken. It's a HEN, not even one of the idiot Roos who might challenge your authority. You were trying to attract a hen. But then the little marshmellow was just so baffled at where that lovely boy went to, she was soooo in love with him.

Oh well. We just have to love the little freaks.

 

[featherz]

Mrs. Fluffy Puffy :

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Love the nesting box idea!

I bought it, it's great. You just hang it on the wall.

all the other ladies will use it but that splash blrw.

 

[IdealisticRoo]

Rough day!

It was a bad day to be a chick here at the Funny Farm!

First thing this morning, I opened the door on the hen house, sending the mama hen flying and squashing the white chick under the door (it opens inward).

Somewhy and somehow, the mama got herself and her 7 babies out of the nest and over the 1' fence around her nest!?!?!

She left behind 3 fully formed and viable eggs, one of which had pipped.

Then the geese stepped on the chicks.

Then I moved the mama and her babies into a 8' x3' brooder in the garage, and left to go to work. When I got home, the mama and/ or the babies had pecked 1/2 of the face off my little black chick!

WHY????????

The high point of today was a visit to a friend's chicken coop this afternoon!

However, when I got home this evening, I decided to move the brooder slightly and managed to drop the brooder light on one of the EE chicks!

I am going to bed!

 

[Cass]

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Sweet dreams. I hope tomorrow is a MUCH better day for you.