Found a surprise in the barn this morning! 12 of them.
Now I have to see about how best to take care of them. Not sure the hen will consistently sit on them. They are not very maternal.
Oh how fun!! Congrats!!!
@KYtranspant Cool 😎 Congratulations!🎉 🥚 🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚
Yes! Just in time for that pagan Easter celebration! 🐰🥚🐇
Really cool! 😄
My head is now swimming with conflicting information on how best to handle this. Most recommend a broody chicken to sit on and hatch them. But, I don't have chickens.
From what I've read most of the time these birds lay their eggs out in fields and tall grasses and predators eat the eggs. I'm glad she trusted enough to lay them in the hay feeder in the barn.
I just walked my fields looking for any other nests. Didn't find any.
One of my friends who owns a self sustaining small farm advised me to let it be for a few days and see if she lays some more and then tends the nest.
If she doesn't, I am to remove all the eggs with a long handle spoon. Grade them for viability and set up an incubator in the house.
I've only raised them from already hatched keets. So this is going to be a learning curve for me.
With any luck they should hatch in about 28 days.
Oh dear lort, the house sitter I have tending to all my critters while I attend the St. Louis gathering is going to have her hands full!
Now they are all sitting on my porch steps and the lead Beaked Freak is pecking on the door to get my attention. 🙄 He is also the reason I don't have a screen door. 😡🐔
It is truly weirdville around here.
I haven’t seen guineas since I was a kid living in the country 🙂 Are they friendly?
@unsocial_bee To a point they are.
They are more curious then anything else.. They like to interact from a distance of a few feet but are always interested in seeing what I am doing.
Occasionally the bigger darker bird goes on a psychotic rant. Chasing and attacking delivery drivers, running after me on the lawn mower and inspecting everyone that comes driving in the driveway.
You haven't lived until you've been angrily flogged by an 10 pound screaming bird for no apparent reason.
They free range around my property and occasionally I see them on the neighbor's property. But they come home to roost at night after a full day of eating bugs and ticks.
@Gallowglass - I make eggs like that and my first reaction to that photo was wait, have I already responded to this? One of my many eggs is from a guinea fowl.
I learned from my father. The eggs in the photo are not mine. Just a random search result.
@KYtranspant I Wouldn't know what to do with the Guinea eggs. But you sure have quite the adventurous life on your farm..and that’s awesome!
