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@ Joe. Here is the prequel to the GREAT GUINEA EGG CATASTROPHE. Yeap, they were raised since hatching in a beautiful guinea house that my husband painstakingly built to show up my chicken privy (that he also built, lol). They free ranged during the day and would come in at dusk every night to our calls and even on their own. They had chosen their guinea to be picked on and she moved out and into the shed or on top of the rabbit hutch outside, depending on her mood. They taught us their little whistle and we use that and food to stay in close communication of their needs, lol. We can even hold a few of them and they are very social, which the vet says is the "craziest thing he has ever seen". They check out any strangers in the neighborhood and guide the cars in and out of our dead end road, (Yes, I know...but if you have guineas....then you know they have a mind of their own and our neighbors love them. After several attempts at running them out of the street...we now call them speed bumps. We have very few "unknowing cars" on our road so it's ok and the mail man and trash people come up the road just to see them and the other craziness going on at the farm.)
About 2 months ago, they "went into HEAT" rotfcu, moved the heck out of the guinea house to my hubby's dismay and into YON' tree, and the least went with them. Every night we would be out there with a ladder, a telescoping pole and a net. Knockin them out of the tree and chasing them into the guinea house, CRAZINESS! That went on for an hour every night and lasted about a month until they moved so high in the tree that we could no longer reach them and my husband said we had "GO-OWN NYTZ". They then started chasing each other around like crazy, beating up the neighbor dog and grabbing a pant leg for a good shake whenever we walked by....which led to guinea WAR! ROTF...after a few lashes with a bamboo stick the pants shaking stopped and they took to torturing the neighbor puppy who has learned quickly to fight back and now they have some sort of understanding-tehehehe.
They still go to the guinea house to get some pellets and corn whenever they want and they love to take long walks with us in the woods, Where there are wild turkey so that seems to get them stirred up. They sleep in the same tree every night just outside our bedroom window so that is a treat, lol-no really we do like it. They have calmed way down so the noise level is liveable. Then the eggs were discovered and... (hubby the guinea king says, NO MORE GUINEAS. I tried to warn him when he got the first 6-told ya so hahahahaha)
What is a blood feather? It is a new feather or a Pin Feather when a new feather grows in it still maintains a blood supply and should it break it bleeds like the dickens and makes a huge mess if picked. It was scarey, it is not so dramatic when a chicken gets one you just pull it out and it closes up. But Guinea? MY GOD, it looked like the movie texas chain saw massacre in there but, it was not as bad as it looked-so don't panic. I thought they were killing each other. I separated the one with the nappy feather at night for a few nights and all was well. That is our Guinea Adventure. Feel free to laugh at us and not repeat any of the stupid things we did. EllieMay & Uncle Jed
About 2 months ago, they "went into HEAT" rotfcu, moved the heck out of the guinea house to my hubby's dismay and into YON' tree, and the least went with them. Every night we would be out there with a ladder, a telescoping pole and a net. Knockin them out of the tree and chasing them into the guinea house, CRAZINESS! That went on for an hour every night and lasted about a month until they moved so high in the tree that we could no longer reach them and my husband said we had "GO-OWN NYTZ". They then started chasing each other around like crazy, beating up the neighbor dog and grabbing a pant leg for a good shake whenever we walked by....which led to guinea WAR! ROTF...after a few lashes with a bamboo stick the pants shaking stopped and they took to torturing the neighbor puppy who has learned quickly to fight back and now they have some sort of understanding-tehehehe.
They still go to the guinea house to get some pellets and corn whenever they want and they love to take long walks with us in the woods, Where there are wild turkey so that seems to get them stirred up. They sleep in the same tree every night just outside our bedroom window so that is a treat, lol-no really we do like it. They have calmed way down so the noise level is liveable. Then the eggs were discovered and... (hubby the guinea king says, NO MORE GUINEAS. I tried to warn him when he got the first 6-told ya so hahahahaha)
What is a blood feather? It is a new feather or a Pin Feather when a new feather grows in it still maintains a blood supply and should it break it bleeds like the dickens and makes a huge mess if picked. It was scarey, it is not so dramatic when a chicken gets one you just pull it out and it closes up. But Guinea? MY GOD, it looked like the movie texas chain saw massacre in there but, it was not as bad as it looked-so don't panic. I thought they were killing each other. I separated the one with the nappy feather at night for a few nights and all was well. That is our Guinea Adventure. Feel free to laugh at us and not repeat any of the stupid things we did. EllieMay & Uncle Jed
