I usually don’t include videos in my posts (who has the time to watch them right?) with this incredible exception (which still makes me laugh.) But I thought I’d include two in today’s post as sort of a public service announcement.
Marc took this video, it’s entitled, “Why your neighbors will hate Guinea hens.” He took it right before we put the birds in the box for transport to a new home. The Guineas are the ones that honk, pretty hard to miss it. To do this video justice, turn the volume up (way up) before you hit play.
Why your neighbors will hate Guinea hens
(Actually for the full effect, play this loudly on loop at 6 a.m on a Sunday morning.)
Because we live in a neighborhood with close neighbors whom we’d rather like to remain close neighbors with, we re-homed our Guineas to Dick who has a flock of free ranging Guineas at his house. He recently sent this report back on their progress:
Thought you might want to know that the two guineas are fitting in just fine. I removed them from the cage within the pen several days after you brought them. At first there was the common posturing, especially by some of the main flock. The new ones took it in stride and have been going into the pen at night and sleeping on the roosts.
It will take a bit more time before they’re totally accepted into the guinea flock but right now they either hang with the chickens or off by themselves. There was a bit of posturing with the chickens too, which surprised me but I think I remember you saying something along those lines.
Anyway, all in all, they’re all fine.
Does it make me weird that I actually felt relieved at receiving this report?
As many of you know, I went down to Dick’s with 2 Guinea hens and came back with one tiny Black Copper Marans chick.
This was what we got: (be sure to turn the volume up for this one – way up.)
I’d say it was a pretty even trade.
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Wendy Thomas writes about the lessons learned while raising children and chickens in New Hampshire. Contact her at [email protected]
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