The Old Folks Home

[ronott1]

This is a picture of a dinner I made a while back. The Corn Bread is made from popcorn I milled.

 

[Cynthia12]

popcorn? Well, it looks really good! All of it!!

 

[chickisoup]

What they say versus what they mean:
About guinea fowl

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PLEASE: Remember to check date AVAILABILITY for your purchase before placing your order.
An interesting and high-value addition to your farm or acreage, guinea fowl:

• have great personalities. No, they're jerks.
• will act as the farm yard watch dog, sounding the alarm whenever anything unusual occurs. They're insanely loud and they will become insanlier loud when something out of the ordinary or dangerous occurs, like a leaf falling. You will know when every leaf falls.
• will consume large amounts of insects. They have to, because they'll never be penned in to eat the pellets.
• will seldom bother your garden or flowers. Because they're too busy making loud noises at the scary plants.
• are easy and inexpensive to raise. I think they need to look up the definition of easy.
• fend for themselves, living on insects, seeds, and grasses. They have to, because you'll give up on getting them in the coop.
• control deer ticks, wood ticks, grasshoppers, box-elder bugs, flies, crickets, fire ants and all other insects. And neighbors.
• and their call will discourage rodents. I must be part rodent. The squirrels and rats could care less if a guinea honks at them. It drives me insane.
• will kill snakes. My chickens do, too, and they're a lot friendlier.
• will alert you to anything unusual. See also: every falling leaf.

And the truth shall set you free! (or at least help you retain your sanity)

 

[chickisoup]

Wild caught???? Hmmm. Wonder how they round up and catch "wild" chickens? (must be true true free range) You''re from Texas Alaskan, how do they go about doing a wild chicken roundup???

 

[perchie.girl]

That's all good stuff to know!! Unless I just lucked out...guineas "can" be dealt with ok. The first year we had the guineas we herded them into a large enclosed dog kennel every night in the metal shed (for their safety) because it's not a secure building. Once I was down to the pair I put the older metal kennel (wider bars) in the coop and kenneled them every night so they wouldn't harass the chickens in the morning. They eventually went in themselves if I wasn't there and they'd be laying in the cage with the door open. I just had the 5 males kenneled for a bit this winter to minimize the picking and because a gentleman wants to buy my males. So I want them crate trained for him.

As for the roosting in trees...nothing a good wing clipping can't fix.

That does leave them at a disadvantage though. I clipped the wings on all my females because they were roosting on top of the rafters and getting down on the side of the young chicks. Wing clipping =

Are jumbo guineas a larger bird?

I want guineas that look like the birds at the top, variegated in color. http://www.breezybirdfarms.com/guinea-fowl.php


I'm hoping to get turkey eggs.

SO exciting!!!!

Wow Breezy bird is expensive.....

Nice pictures though.

They do their guineas in a big flock so there is no guarantee of what color you will get. At http://www.guineafarm.com/ they have their guineas separated by color. So if you order a color you will get it.

I may order up my birds pinioned since I want jumbos as breeders. But then I intend on them to live in a giant netted run so I am torn. Jumbos are up to seven pounds as adults Standard guineas are about three. The feathers make their size deceptive.

deb

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Wild caught???? Hmmm. Wonder how they round up and catch "wild" chickens? (must be true true free range) You''re from Texas Alaskan, how do they go about doing a wild chicken roundup???

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You know, I'd just like to see that.

Hopefully the people doing the rounding up aren't like the people afraid of Ron's turkey!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Would be a fun site they could sell tickets to it like a rodeo
but those wild chickens are pretty tough customers eh Alaskan

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Quote: Yep and yep. Not for the faint of heart....lol. That's where I got my two additional keets last fall (on sale) when I was hoping for an outcross male and got two females.

And yes they do have theirs in a big flock. But no live birds for me, only eggs....so I'm wanting to breed the variegated color, mad scientist style.

I've got one with a bit of it on the back of her neck. Out of my first 3 hatched keets, two were color. The seller is shocked I got color. He's had only pearl for many years now...lol. I've been lucky.



A fellow sheep breeder used to have guineas...been thinking of calling her up. For right now I'm putting Forrest (Opaline) with one from Breezy and the white October keet with the other white breezy IF it's a male. Keep my pair together and I need a male for the pair's females.

I like the website you're on as for picking colors. You'll get true color reproduction that way. What color are you thinking of getting???

And what is pinioning, dare I ask? It sounds scary...lol.
7 pounds!!! Wow...big birds! I'll admit I've thought about making a lovely meal out of my pearl males. Guineas are like Slim Pig, the cartoon. From the side they look big, from the back it's like "where'd they go?"

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Would be a fun site they could sell tickets to it like a rodeo
but those wild chickens are pretty tough customers eh Alaskan

I would buy a ticket!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Oh I would be all in also