The Quack Shack

[Magnolia Ducks]

Just accept him

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

Sounds like he chose you!

 

[Pyxis]

I definitely have no problem with him staying. I just don't want to be 'stealing' someone's bird, lol. But unless they lock him up, guaranteed he's coming back anyway.

 

[rjohns39]

Good morning folks

Lisa & Pyxis, you're up early... Have a great day. Clearly you were meant to have the male Pyxis.

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

Thats true. Guineas seem to just do their own thing anyway no matter how hard you try to keep them in so maybe they will be happy he's found somewhere safe to settle. Or atleast thats how I'd think of it if he were mine.

Good morning Bob!

 

[rjohns39]

Thats true. Guineas seem to just do their own thing anyway no matter how hard you try to keep them in so maybe they will be happy he's found somewhere safe to settle. Or atleast thats how I'd think of it if he were mine.

Good morning Bob!

Good evening Wunda, hope your day was good and you sleep well.

 

[Tooshay89]

Thanks. I loved them from the start as they are all offspring of my beloved and eaten Barbra Lewis.

Aww, predators suck. We lost two of our ducklings the very first day I took them out of their coop into a small temp fenced area. I was feeling confident since we have 60ish chickens and baby chicks free ranging right next to them, but nope. A hawk claimed two that day, so I took all the string and rope we had in the shed and created a top barrier to prevent swooping. And our guy is coming out next week to build their real enclosure. I can’t really afford it since we’re not working because of Covid, but I figure if we’re going to forced into bankruptcy, might as well have a safe run for the ducks beforehand.

 

[Tooshay89]

Uncle dads. DNA is half Pekin half runner. But their parents were full brother sister

That’s awesome and hilarious. I also have runners and pekins. Maybe one day I’ll have some uncle dads too!

 

[Tooshay89]

My guinea is multiplying.

When I was doing bird chores today, I noticed some of the Liege Fighter juvies had escaped their pen. I haven't really super secured the netting over it, so it wasn't surprising, and not a problem since they just followed me back in for their food.

But, as I was going in, I noticed the one guinea I have (work rescue as a weak keet, otherwise I wouldn't have just the one) had also gotten out and was pacing the fence line in my goose grazing pasture, clearly wanting to get back to 'her' chickens. This was going to be a headache, since she's skittish and hard to catch.

So I'm ruminating about what to do, plans mostly involving my bird net, and I'm feeding the Lieges and I look down and my guinea is eating with them. I checked the goose pasture and sure enough, the guinea is still in there.

My guinea is a female. This one is clearly a male. Who knows where he came from, but clearly he heard my female and decided to show up. All I can figure is a neighbor had a lone guinea or a male that was ostracized, and he heard company and took off.

So I was trying to be neighborly and catch him with my net so I could go ask the neighbors if he was theirs and if they wanted him back, but he is WILD. I didn't even get within netting range before he took off flying over the goose pasture fence, landed on top of a section of unsecured netting over my pen, which then gave in under his weight and he fell right in.

Where he promptly began following my female around, happy as a clam. At that point I decided nope, not gonna try to net him in here, he'll probably flush up again and either tangle in the netting or tear it down all the way. If he's the neighbor's and they want him back, I can try to chase him and only him out (because he's not stealing my female) but he's just gonna come around here all the time anyway trying to be with her.

That’s really the coolest epic guinea love story if you think about it. That guy could have traveled miles... maybe more... to find love. Now he’s like “I’ve found you and I’m never leaving your side!”

Maybe he escaped the feed store to set out on a journey to find her. Their love was cut short when they were separated, now he’s back to finish what they started.

I should write for Hallmark. Maybe they’ll add a barnyard channel.

 

[Tooshay89]

Yesterday my favorite hen, Blue, passed away. I have no idea why. She has just turned two, so she wasn’t old at all. She seemed fine yesterday morning and into the afternoon. I reviewed my cameras to see if I could figure out what happened and it was so weird. At 3:30pm she came into the coop, ate some food and hopped into the nesting box. I don’t believe she laid an egg. By 4:30 she was dead on the floor of the coop. Could she have been egg bound? Doesn’t that take more time?