BeccaOH: Update of just STUFF

[BeccaOH]

A fun thing about my chicken flock is that several young roosters are learning to crow. This morning I heard a "baaa" behind me. We don't have sheep. Turned to find my young BO roo attempting to crow.

And I have a young BA hen that growls. Crazy sound comes from her throat. I went into the coop last night to retrieve an egg from under the roost, and she growled at me. Not a "bawk" but a "grrr." And I didn't believe a friend at church who told me he has a rooster that growls like a mountain lion.

 

[keljonma]

When our flock was young (about 2 months old), Ike our SCBL and Sam our GC were practicing crowing. Sam had already been crowing for a while, so he was pretty accomplished crower at the time. Ike, however, had just started to crow and sounded pretty pitiful.

Well, Martha Washington, our Lakenvelder pullet, jumped up on the ladder and crowed!

I looked at Martha and said in my sternest mom voice, "That will be enough out of you young lady!"

And she never crowed again!

 

[BeccaOH]

I give up on guinea and go back to my belief that they are just plain EVIL!

Look at this guinea. All 3 that I have look bloody in the face from banging on the fence and chasing/pecking/fighting with my chickens and turkeys. Found my young turkey tom fighting back yesterday. :/

Celebrating that my Cayuga ducks are now laying. Check out the near black egg I got yesterday. The eggs are in the basket I got from my aunt's house when in Kansas in July.

Here is a shot of the Langshans I have and the 3 chicks that came with them.

Here are the Colombian Wyandottes I got a few weeks ago. Trying to decide how well I like them. There are 2 pairs here.

Then there are these peachicks. Can't figure out what I have. Each that looks like IB have creamy chest feathers. There is blue/green in the neck feathers, though. Light one is also still a mystery to me. I'm selling them all and would like to know what to tell buyers that they are.

 

[keljonma]

What great pictures, Becca! I love those dark eggs!

Can you put the guineas in a separate house? Maybe if they were separate, and couldn't see the others, they would stop banging into the fence? I've never had guineas, so I can't think of any other suggestions at the moment. Are they going to Mt Hope or are you keeping them?

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[BeccaOH]

What great pictures, Becca! I love those dark eggs!

Can you put the guineas in a separate house? Maybe if they were separate, and couldn't see the others, they would stop banging into the fence? I've never had guineas, so I can't think of any other suggestions at the moment. Are they going to Mt Hope or are you keeping them?

I was told if I raised keets up with my chicks and poults that they would all get along as adults. So that is what I've tried.

They are going to Mount Hope!!!

 

[keljonma]

I was told if I raised keets up with my chicks and poults that they would all get along as adults. So that is what I've tried.

I never heard that before. One of my friends raises a lot of different birds. (I got QA's Fab Five from her.) She keeps all her guineas penned separately from the chickens, ducks, geese, and peafowl.

So would you say that up until now it was a good theory?

ETA: your fluffy-butt Columbian Wyandottes are very pretty.

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

Becca, guineas don't like living in a coop They like to run free.

Mine were banging into the walls of the coop and the fence, too, until I started letting them out to free range daily. They're well trained, too, and take themselves back to the coop each evening

 

[Blackbird]

Yes, we keep our guineas seperate from our chickens, ducks, turkeys, peafowl, geese, etc etc too. We did have one that we hatched with chicks so it doesn't mind, but the others that know they have their 'own kind' prefer to be with them. But we do keep the guineas with the chickens in the winter.

I think your guinea looks sweet! It looks like a Royal Purple?

Don't you just love the dark eggs?? They're so cool!

I still say the two IBs are male, but since I can't see the thirds wings I can't tell you. The light one might be black shoulder, but I have no expirience in those.

For the IB's, the primary wing weathers, is they are a rusty brown copper's colour they are male. This doesn't always hold true for some colour breeds but it does for IB.

 

[Farmfresh]

Guineas are free range birds pretty much. Keep them cooped up and they cause problems. If you want them to settle down a bit they say they like to look at themselves in a big mirror!

My sister has about 50 guinea fowl. They all free range.

 

[lorihadams]

My light brahmas look just like your wyandottes.... :/

Did someone lie to one of us?