Poultry Talk Ontario (pto.ca)

This one is definitely where I live:
If the speed limit on the highway is 80 km --
You're going 95 and everybody is passing you,
You may live in Canada

Happy New Year! I hope everyone has a great 2025.

Killerbunny wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 08, 2024 4:32 pm

Well done caring for them!

Thanks. They grow up so fast! They now sound like adult guineas. We are going to have one noisy little farm! A few of them still hang out with their barred rock chicken mama,too.

The 11 keets are now 10 weeks old and get to the top roost in the barn as they have been doing for the past few weeks at around 3pm. A couple of them get some warmth under each side of a barred rock hen. And they are visibly becoming more independent, as well as larger. If we get the warm weather th...

Since my last post, a keet went missing and was never found. Now there are 11. It either did not keep up, or was adventurous and could not find it's way back to the others. Today, however, we witnessed something unique. In the barn, when we went in to feed the birds this morning, there were some kee...

I hope it's OK that I post this video. Some parts are really amusing.
https://youtu.be/iUh1ZAGZa8Q?si=B9HceArYWZwzGPpY

Happy Thanksgiving!

Guinea hen and keets are still doing well. The hen has brought them outside the barn at least 3 times already. Today while outside the barn, she even took them up a ramp and into a connecting coop. After a while, she took them back into the barn.

Agreed. My hens devour cooked rice. They also love cooked pasta, apple cores, cabbage cores and leaves, radish leaves, kale, Swiss Chard, cucumbers, squash seeds and pulp, and tomatoes.

I may need to correct myself - there are probably 12 keets. If they would all just stop moving, it would be easier to count! And apparently, as DH did some research, a normal guinea flock is made up of 12 birds. Anyway, all the keets seem to be doing well. They are still in the barn (which is good),...