Good news/Bad news in guinea land

[BennieAnTheJets]

Only wisdom I can think of to ad is: trying it trumps thinking about it.
Your Guineas may give you the answer or more ideas to try.
Persistence, persistence, persistence. They can fly and run faster but we have the bigger brains, ha ha. In the end you will find a solution.

 

[R2elk]

Even I can have bad luck with my guineas.

I have only been finding at most, one egg a day and have been going multiple days without finding any eggs. I felt that there had to be a hidden nest but just couldn't find it.

Today I came home from grocery shopping. There was a lone raven being harassed by Grackles but it kept making passes over the guinea pen until the grackles won and it left.

When I got time, I checked out the guinea pen and found eggs all over the place which led me to the discovery of the hidden nest. The raven found the nest and had eaten at least 3 eggs. There was one egg that was badly cracked.

I fired up the incubator and will be adding the found eggs along with the ones that I have been collecting. One good thing is that after the raven attack, one hen decided to put her egg in the nest in the coop.

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Even I can have bad luck with my guineas.

I have only been finding at most, one egg a day and have been going multiple days without finding any eggs. I felt that there had to be a hidden nest but just couldn't find it.

Today I came home from grocery shopping. There was a lone raven being harassed by Grackles but it kept making passes over the guinea pen until the grackles won and it left.

When I got time, I checked out the guinea pen and found eggs all over the place which led me to the discovery of the hidden nest. The raven found the nest and had eaten at least 3 eggs. There was one egg that was badly cracked.

I fired up the incubator and will be adding the found eggs along with the ones that I have been collecting. One good thing is that after the raven attack, one hen decided to put her egg in the nest in the coop.

Oh wow! The person who sold me the original guinea eggs told me that he finds their nests by looking for groups of crows eating eggs...

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Engaging in my favorite activity - chasing guineas away from the road. There’s a guy mowing the easement and giving me surprised looks right now... Actually, I don’t know who he is; he’s working the other side of the street with a tractor that mowed and pushes shrubs over!

And today, it was our “well behaved older guineas” who tried to cross. Bad bad bad guineas! I’m trying to take pictures so I could better map their crossing points for fence planning: it’s not surprising that they are crossing at the flatter areas. The guineas looked out, saw me, and walked confidently towards their trusty treat lady... Wrong! It’s scary umbrella lady! They flew off in a panic. Sigh. Now they’ll be scared of me again. No rain yet, which I’ll need for any fence work...

 

[BennieAnTheJets]

Sigh, I feel for you!

Have thought some more about it, believe it or not, ha ha, when I was out with my darlings yesterday, ha ha -

If you are worried about getting in the tick area on foot - I would be - could you just run a mower (preferably riding mower, if you have one) as close to the edge of the ravine on your side as you comfortably can - let it "dry out" a day to get the ticks to move along (into the ground or away to higher grasses) - and then use it as a foot path to mount the fence at the outside edge of the mowed area you just made? I would also make a cut mower path for the Guineas back towards home that does not coincide with the end of your, hopefully, blocking fence and block the path to the end of your blocking fence with something, like an old feed bag cut open, because if you mow to the end and everything else is tall, they will follow the mowed area to the end and then get around your fence to the road again, maybe. I would try to channel them back home, 'nott'in to see here', ha ha.
I am still thinking it may be more effective to keep the birds from entering the ravine area - that way they don't have the road crossing on their mind but are stopped before even thinking about it.

For the dry ground - eh, yeah - if I was desperate, I would maybe get a few T-posts with a T-post driver (we have one on hand anyway but you can buy them if you think it is worth it or borrow from a friend? - and drive them into the ground at both ends and maybe two in the middle, and then attach the silt fence upside down to the T-posts (with the silt fence wood posts sticking up in the air and the black tarp still being flush with the ground.

Just some thoughts. =]