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Post by **Home Grown Poultry** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 8:56 am

The guineas i had at the old place didnt drive me crazy with there yappiness but they drove me crazy by not staying off the road. I did have one that was beating the crap out of the chickens and had to be takinh out. was it ever delicious! im to close to the road at the new place to have them...

baronrenfrew · Post by **baronrenfrew** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 9:31 am

Rhonda: "evil

done in the name of religion"

Religion is just an excuse and the real reason is to steal land or take power. If you want your neighbours wealth there are better ways than picking up a gun: just accuse him of being an infidel (nonbeliever), or a communist, or a traitor, or a protestant/catholic, or a child molester, or a witch, or a devil worshipper. then the mob will rise and do the dirty deed for you. or you pay off the political leaders and the ruling government will chase you off the land, fence it in, and lease/sell it to someone else. The white people chased the native Indians off the land when we got to the Americas. Jews were kicked off their land in Arab countries in the 1940's.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_ ... _countries
The Isrealis build a wall to steal land from Palestinians. http://rense.com/general60/israelishastenlandgrab.htm

And today the small tribal farmers are chased off their land in Kenya so the Saudis can take the land and grow food. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/ ... -land-grab
The office of the Spanish Inquisition closed in 1923.
Its a money and power and land grab, it always was.

Guineas: i am 700m from a quiet road, when they were free they walked two farms over, came back at night, and the hens would make a nest somewhere in the pasture, then go broody, and all i'd find was a nest of feathers and broken eggs. I got some now but locked in the barn. Gonna take some eggs and sell the bunch and raise the next bunch in a different shed.

Bobbi · Post by **Bobbi** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 9:53 am

Thanks Kathy.

Post by **Home Grown Poultry** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 10:01 am

Bobbi I read in the Feather Fancier the the possible source for infecting the 2 farms here in Ontario could have been contaminated feed. Corn stored outside where wild birds had free access. its thought the process to make pelleted feed is hot enough to kill the virus while the process to make laymash is not.... now where did that feed come from and was it not tested? hmmmmmmm I guess if they tested it they could have concluded the birds on the farm infected the feed and not the other way around... dismissing it completely?

hmmmmm i dont think we will ever get the full story but facts are facts and no wild bird was found to be infected in Ontario.

Bobbi · Post by **Bobbi** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 10:01 am

Mmmm that would be a delicious bird to run over Al. Lol.

My stupid chickens go in the ditch by the road all the time. Not on the road yet though.. With the exception of one crazy hen who got mixed up and layed on the white line one night. Lol. Weirdo.
My guineas were locked in a outside pen because I'm sure they would have flown into neighbors yard and been consumed by dogs. Lol.

My Aura is dirty today, I've been in contact with too many negative people past couple days, time to smudge myself and house and do some meditation!

I built 4 raised beds last night, with the help of my oldest boy.. He sure likes it when I pull out the saw or any power tools for that matter. Lol.

Today i hope to get the meat bird tractor fixed up and into the feed store to order my chicks! It feels nice crossing things off my to do list!

Bobbi · Post by **Bobbi** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 10:03 am

Al was the two farms the last years outbreak or were there 2 this year? I haven't kept up on news.. Its hard without facebook etc.. Been kind of staying out of the news etc on purpose.

Bayvistafarm · Post by **Bayvistafarm** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 10:04 am

I know they are noisy and obnoxious at times. But for bugs/ticks.. you can't beat them. I haven't seen a tick up around the house area in forever. They do wander a LONG way, and yes, I find broken nests... and feather piles. The original 25 I had are all gone now, all those free-rangers. After I get some eggs to incubate from the two year olds.. out they go. I will always keep replacements... because believe me, they all disappear. AND thats with coming home every night, and locked up. IF I can find the hens... I take their eggs. If I can't, then the coons find them. That being said.... getting back to their 'voices', honestly, unless I'm doing something 'different' in the barn, they are quiet. But, Strangers do set them off. I don't know what was up with Sandy. Two different 'barns', and pensfull.... and they didn't say peep. I TOLD her to talk, thinking maybe that would set them off, for sure. Nope. lol.

A lady I sold 10 keets to last spring, well, all of hers were eventually hit on the road. They are the most stupidest things, really. If there is a way to die... they go ahead and take the opportunity. The last one of my originals... drowned herself in the cow water trough... she loved to perch up on the trusses... but must have fallen down, and the cows probably helped drive her into it... and then she couldn't get out. Poor girl.

Maybe your the guinea whisperer Sandy.

Got my hair cut this morning. I haven't been to the barn to do chores yet. Turned the lights on at 6am tho... cause I knew I would be pushing for time to get out of here, right after bus.

I sure hope we don't get this ice they are calling for. Driving sucks in snow/slush/fog/driving rain... but ice is a nightmare. Maybe we will have an extra long Easter holiday?? We will see. So glad I don't have anything incubating... incase hydro goes out. IF it does, I will have to bring in the poults from the brooder in the barn, by the woodstove. Glad I have that as well.

I hope its not so bad it wrecks trees.

Ok... I'd better get outside. Been raining now for awhile.

Post by **Home Grown Poultry** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 10:05 am

last year..... nothing this year.

when hit by a car they might as well have been shot with a shotgun at close range.... not much salvageable.

Right on Bobbi! been wondering what ur up to...

Ontario Chick · Post by **Ontario Chick** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 10:56 am

Good morning,
It looks a bit like Christmas here this morning, but sun is out now and snow is going fast.
Bit of a kerfufle this morning, the two Columbian cockerels no longer living in a brotherly harmony, I guess it time to give them their ladies, just waiting for Autumn to get Lucky two on the weekend so the major "musical chickens" can begin.
Have a safe one!

Post by **Killerbunny** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 11:01 am

Pretty, the same here. Well my lap turkey is being stand-offish, screaming for the boys and.... building a little hole in the hay and boughs in the broody coop. Dare I hope she'll begin laying and brood?