glenolam's madness - April passed away

[glenolam]

The one we had flew about 30 feet up in a tree, refused to come down and woke all of our neighborhood up at 4am. I was not popular that week. We tried keeping her fenced with the chickens and the first time she got out something possessed me to chase her around the neighborhood, dressed for work at 6 in the morning. It was ridiculous!!

All the more greatful I am for living so far off the road! Ours have been known to visit the neighbors, but so far no one complains. Afterall, they all have dogs and when their dogs come home with less fleas and ticks who can argue with that

 

[glenolam]

Judging by this chart we have 2 white guineas...no idea where they came from because we don't have a single white guinea in our flock at all, some royal purple (we have 1 or 2 purple gals), a bunch of pied (which we knew) and a bunch of pearls (which we also knew).

Those white ones, though....weird.

 

[savingdogs]

maybe it is a recessive trait showing up?

 

[Henrietta23]

The one we had flew about 30 feet up in a tree, refused to come down and woke all of our neighborhood up at 4am. I was not popular that week. We tried keeping her fenced with the chickens and the first time she got out something possessed me to chase her around the neighborhood, dressed for work at 6 in the morning. It was ridiculous!!

All the more greatful I am for living so far off the road! Ours have been known to visit the neighbors, but so far no one complains. Afterall, they all have dogs and when their dogs come home with less fleas and ticks who can argue with that

That's why we tried owning one in the first place but they are not suited for suburbia (which we really aren't but my neighbors like to pretend we are.....)

 

[pinkfox]

i love love love the peid guinneas...

im hopign 4 1/2 acres will be enough to keep a handfull (about 1/2 doz) of guinneas on wihtout them annoying the neighbors too badly lol

 

[Henrietta23]

Don't go by my experience! We've only got 3/4 of an acre!

 

[glenolam]

We're up to 20 with 1 that was working it's way out of the egg as I left this morning. We watched one hatch last night about 7 pm and it was another lavender one so now we've got 2 white, 2 lavender and the pearls/peid ones. When I got home there were 4 more keets but I couldn't tell if one of them was the one I thought wouldn't make it...I haven't taken out the empty eggs since Thursday morning because I didn't want to disrup the remaining eggs too much.

Now there's about 10 or so eggs left. Let's hope for more keets by the time I get home!

pinkfox - I think that's plenty of space. You'll just need to keep them in their enclosure for about 4 - 6 weeks so they learn where home is and they'll come back to the house each night. Ours follow the chickens around so they come home each night when we let everyone free range. There's tips to help them learn if they're the only birds you have - stuff like giving them millet seeds only at the house and only at night so they come to expect it.

ETA - I took the advice and put paper towels on top of the newspaper and I must say it definitely was a better idea!

 

[Henrietta23]

More absorbant AND less slippery! Glad the hatch is going so well!

 

[glenolam]

Now we're up to 26 keets and 1 has pipped. 7 eggs (incudling the pipped one) left in the incubator..what a good hatch!

So - guess what we got this weekend? Some new mousers! My MIL had a cat named frankie who ended up pregnant (she got pregnant before coming to MIL's house) and she had 5 kittens last May. I couldn't resist, so Saturday we took home a cream colored girl that we named Mickey and a tortoise colored one that is named Frankie Jr...she looks just like her mother.

Gee, pinkfox - little Frankie Jr looks just like Willow!

 

[dragonlaurel]

They are beautiful! Awwwwwww!