it's official, Guinea's freak me out .....

[kzane23]

Ok. So Guinea's have always kinda freaked me out to begin with so, of course, I had never seen a keet. Yesterday, while at the feed store (I knew better) I saw the cutest little balls of fluff ever in my entire life. Guinea Keets..... I bought 4(I have no will power). Two really dusky ones (Lavender I think) and two pied ones. One of the little lavenders was a pity save due to it having some serious spraddle. Anyway, I take them home, get them all nice and cozy and I go to bed. This morning I wake up and go into check on them and realize I didn't turn on the heat lamp. Three of them are sprawled out in the half dead half frozen state and the larger of the pied babies is just walking around like nothing happened. I perform emergency re-heating and get them all back up and running and put all four of them in my always toasty laundry room and then leave to go to town.

I return home this evening and I hear nothing. No peeping.So I drop my crap and head for my laundry room. Heat lamp bulb burned out.

One keet is dead in the cage, two more are dead on the floor outside of the cage and one is AWOL. My first thought is "There is a dead bird somewhere in my house....****!" So I move everything in my laundry room, washer and dryer included. No bird.

I move out to my dining room, move everything, No bird.

Kitchen. No bird

By this time I'm becoming alarmed and exasperated. Now my major thought is that my tiny crawling 7 month old daughter is going to find said dead bird, eat it and get salmonella and die.....

I move to the living room and proceed to carefully move everything except my couches. No bird.

As I'm beginning to have a conniption I decide to see if there is anything behind my couch. Low and behold! BIRD

.

So, I'm wiggling my couch out to retrieve it's little dead body and the little twerp hops up, peeps at me and runs back under the couch......

no only is it not dead, it's not even remotely ill, sick, cold, dying, etc.

The moral of this story you ask?

GUINEA'S ARE CREEPY. And yet, still cute....

 

[holm25]

Ok. So Guinea's have always kinda freaked me out to begin with so, of course, I had never seen a keet. Yesterday, while at the feed store (I knew better) I saw the cutest little balls of fluff ever in my entire life. Guinea Keets..... I bought 4(I have no will power). Two really dusky ones (Lavender I think) and two pied ones. One of the little lavenders was a pity save due to it having some serious spraddle. Anyway, I take them home, get them all nice and cozy and I go to bed. This morning I wake up and go into check on them and realize I didn't turn on the heat lamp. Three of them are sprawled out in the half dead half frozen state and the larger of the pied babies is just walking around like nothing happened. I perform emergency re-heating and get them all back up and running and put all four of them in my always toasty laundry room and then leave to go to town.

I return home this evening and I hear nothing. No peeping.So I drop my crap and head for my laundry room. Heat lamp bulb burned out.

One keet is dead in the cage, two more are dead on the floor outside of the cage and one is AWOL. My first thought is "There is a dead bird somewhere in my house....****!" So I move everything in my laundry room, washer and dryer included. No bird.

I move out to my dining room, move everything, No bird.

Kitchen. No bird

By this time I'm becoming alarmed and exasperated. Now my major thought is that my tiny crawling 7 month old daughter is going to find said dead bird, eat it and get salmonella and die.....

I move to the living room and proceed to carefully move everything except my couches. No bird.

As I'm beginning to have a conniption I decide to see if there is anything behind my couch. Low and behold! BIRD

.

So, I'm wiggling my couch out to retrieve it's little dead body and the little twerp hops up, peeps at me and runs back under the couch......

no only is it not dead, it's not even remotely ill, sick, cold, dying, etc.

The moral of this story you ask?

GUINEA'S ARE CREEPY. And yet, still cute....

 

[ChickenPox]

Cute story! Although I'm sorry you lost 3 of them. I am incubating some eggs right now for my very first attempt at guineas. Never owned them before either. I think they are funny looking, but sound cool. I got the eggs (18 for $18, mixed colors) because we have GOBS of ticks and I also worry about venomous snakes (do they even go after those?) I plan on letting them free range, although my chickens are penned up. I will probably make them a nightly pen, although I've heard it's hard to train them to it? Who knows! We shall see!

P.S. My 10 year old son got salmonella last year (we didn't even OWN birds at the time, no clue where he picked it up from) and it is NO JOKE. Poor kiddo was SICK. He's perfectly fine now though!