Quote: He actually emailed me, today, and told me to stop by the store on the way home and pick up four more guinea fowl. Not chickens **le sigh**. However, considering I have 41 eggs in the incubator, 13 chicks I'm picking up tomorrow, 24 eggs to arrive March 25th () and...that's it for right now....I guess I can be cool with four more guinea fowl. Especially at $1 a guinea.
$1 a peice...i didnt know they were that inexpensive! most of the chciks i bought ranged from $2.50-$3 bux a peice, depending on if they were sexed or not!He actually emailed me, today, and told me to stop by the store on the way home and pick up four more guinea fowl. Not chickens **le sigh**. However, considering I have 41 eggs in the incubator, 13 chicks I'm picking up tomorrow, 24 eggs to arrive March 25th () and...that's it for right now....I guess I can be cool with four more guinea fowl. Especially at $1 a guinea.
He actually emailed me, today, and told me to stop by the store on the way home and pick up four more guinea fowl. Not chickens **le sigh**. However, considering I have 41 eggs in the incubator, 13 chicks I'm picking up tomorrow, 24 eggs to arrive March 25th (
i think mines gonna break down first!!! Lolmy DW is slowly coming around...i just make sure and bring home the chicks that she thinks are pretty!......"But baby, they are the silver laved w-breed (she had a hard time with wyandotte at first, lol) you know the ones you said were pretty!" and "these will lay you some pretty greenish blue eggs" and "these have the crazy hair-do's you like (polish)" lol!
eventually she will either break down, or catch on....not sure which one though!
Cause knowing my luck it will be like when the neighbors sorry looking longhorn bull got in with my cows and I found out 10 months later that he bred 3 cows in 3 days while apparently my high dollar registered bull layed in the shade! Lol!!!!'
Yeah I saw that they could cross also the other day and some of the pics I saw makes me think only a face a mother could love!!! Right now I have the keats with the baby chicks but I'm gonna seperate them in a couple of weeks. Darn sure I don't want any little accidents!Cause knowing my luck it will be like when the neighbors sorry looking longhorn bull got in with my cows and I found out 10 months later that he bred 3 cows in 3 days while apparently my high dollar registered bull layed in the shade! Lol!!!!'
i would have been miffed beyond words!We are actually keeping the keets in with the chicks until they are about 12 weeks old or so...maybe 18 weeks. Then we will consider running them loose on the property during the day (we have very few predators in our area, thankfully - other than our two hawks) and calling them back to the roost at night. We'll see how it goes. Don't know until we do it exactly how things will play out.
And, the crossing is apparently very, very, very rare. And, the results are infertile, so you don't have to worry about it being something ongoing.
My FIL had a prize bull that cost him something like $50k back in the late 50s. Something like that - can't think of the exact price, but it was staggering to me...anyway - he had that bull all of, maybe two weeks? Then it got gored in the "important bits" and he lost his fertility....he wound up being a very expensive "marker".
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