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[dave_Cash69]

Mojo Chick'n :

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I totally forgot to take the pic, I'm sorry. I'll get it tomorrow for sure.

meri

Cant wait to see her.​

 

[dave_Cash69]

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where can you get free pallets?

 

[kycowgirlchick]

I recently got a trio of guineas. I kept them with my brahmas so that they would not leave. I placed some tin across the top of the tall pen to make sure they did not get out. After a month I let them out. I figured they would roost in the loft of the shed, on top of the tin or somewhere around the barn.

Well they are driving themselves crazy everynight to go in the pen with the chickens to roost. Those silly guineas. I moved the tin so that they can come and go as they want. So they figure out how to get out everyday, but if I go down at night I have to let them back in which is not easy. They pace back and front of the chicken coops trying to find a hole to get in. They are crazy. But I love to hear them.

 

[FrChuckW]

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where can you get free pallets?

Check behind stores & shops for them, visit construction sites, dumpster diving. But always ask the store or shop manager if you can take them first. Some stores have a contract to have their pallets picked up.

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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where can you get free pallets?

We get ours at the newspaper in town and at the John Deer dealer up by Campbellesville, and at the scratch and dent appliance place up in Campbellesville, too. Most places if you just stop and ask, they'll be nice about it, and let you know if you can grab them (or which ones you can grab) and if you can't. For instance, at a few places, some fo the pallets have deposits and get re-used, so those ones you can't take.

meri

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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I know the guinea dance. It took my guineas almost a month to figure out the sleeping in the tree thing - they kept trying to get back into the coop - but they would go back and forth all day, for the first week they practically tore their faces bloody on the chicken wire.

They'll probably figure out the hole in the top eventually, if it's left open. Just give them some time. They aren't very intelligent birds, so it takes them longer to figure things out.

meri

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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I hope it'll kill that stupid wild honeysuckle, too - that stuff is pretty when it flowers, but it's killing my trees. It chokes the entire tree out.

Thank goodness I don't have kudzu

There's a hill near me that is covered with the stuff - it even grows right out onto the road and people drive over it. Driving over it doesn't even seem to phase it

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I do have wild passion flower in the hayfield, but it sort of contains itself to a point (and the chickens like to munch on it

hope it isn't poisonous to them.)

The wild datura I can control pretty easy - the donkeys won't even eat it, but I hear a goat will - and they'll eat the wild cherry (can't remember the exact name for this one), too. I think I have all the wild cherry cut out of the pasture (I hope). I don't have goats, though, so I think I'm covered on the datura.

Hmmm... if I were young and stoop!d I'd have quite the psychotropic pharmacopia out there to choose from

meri

 

[shelleyd2008]

Dad said he had a lot of honeysuckle here when he first moved in, mostly around the perimeter of the property. The guy he bought his land from used it to plant corn before, so he kept it down pretty good. There is still some on the tree line, but Baby is taking care of it

She likes to dig, and she pulls the roots up! I have know idea what all those others are that you said!

 

[shelleyd2008]

Mojo Chick'n :

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I know the guinea dance. It took my guineas almost a month to figure out the sleeping in the tree thing - they kept trying to get back into the coop - but they would go back and forth all day, for the first week they practically tore their faces bloody on the chicken wire.

They'll probably figure out the hole in the top eventually, if it's left open. Just give them some time. They aren't very intelligent birds, so it takes them longer to figure things out.

meri

croney, do they get out through the hole? I have seen a lot of people on here say that they have to let theirs back in, even when they get out by themselves. There was one that I read that said she had the gate to the run open, and the silly guineas would just walk right past it!

Not the sharpest tools in the woodshed, by any means!

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

Ok, guys, here's a rough (very rough) sketch of the waterfowl pen - any suggestions?

The "walls" that are black lined and red lined both are solid walls, the red lines are fence.

meri