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SandyM · Post by **SandyM** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 2:47 pm

LOLOLOLOL. Very true! I'll take it as a good thing

ross · Post by **ross** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 5:41 pm

Oops ... Starting to snow here . Big wet flakes . Luck

Flat Rock Farm · Post by **Flat Rock Farm** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 5:57 pm

Don't mind snow, I don't like freezing rain!!

Bayvistafarm · Post by **Bayvistafarm** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 9:20 pm

baronrenfrew wrote:QR_BBPOST Wait..... That's it! Sandy is the guinea whisperer! Sandy send me a pic of you so I can blow it up and put it on a sheet of plywood and test the theory! Hot damn if this works we can try it on other animals...we could make a fortune! Every time I go hunting there's always a blue jay squawking... Maybe it works on them too!

Anyone think Sandy could go into the mute guinea production route?? lol.

Flat Rock Farm · Post by **Flat Rock Farm** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 9:24 pm

Bayvistafarm wrote:QR_BBPOST
baronrenfrew wrote:QR_BBPOST Wait..... That's it! Sandy is the guinea whisperer! Sandy send me a pic of you so I can blow it up and put it on a sheet of plywood and test the theory! Hot damn if this works we can try it on other animals...we could make a fortune! Every time I go hunting there's always a blue jay squawking... Maybe it works on them too!

Anyone think Sandy could go into the mute guinea production route?? lol.

SandyM · Post by **SandyM** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 9:27 pm

Bayvistafarm wrote:QR_BBPOST
baronrenfrew wrote:QR_BBPOST Wait..... That's it! Sandy is the guinea whisperer! Sandy send me a pic of you so I can blow it up and put it on a sheet of plywood and test the theory! Hot damn if this works we can try it on other animals...we could make a fortune! Every time I go hunting there's always a blue jay squawking... Maybe it works on them too!

Not a bad idea BVF! I'd be RICH! But then I'd have a homestead and be poor again.

Anyone think Sandy could go into the mute guinea production route?? lol.

JimW · Post by **JimW** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 9:43 pm

Ah guinea fowl, the love hate relationship. I don't have a lot of experience with guineas, we got 6 french guinea keets in May 2014 after my wife got a tick on her and we found some other ticks when searching our bush. We raised them and released them to free range summer of 2015, added a few more that summer, over time most were eaten by foxes. Last winter keep the remaining 2 penned up with the chickens, not problems with the chickens. Spring of 2015 released the pair we wintered plus bought 6 yearlings, free ranged all 8, 2 hens disappeared, could not find their nests, reappeared with a bunch of keets, could not catch the little guys, ended up eaten by coons, foxes.... 2 guineas killed on the road. I also raised up 25 french guineas last year and hatched some eggs from Bayvista. We did not find any ticks last year.

I over wintered 8 guineas this winter will be letting some out to free range soon, they are penned with 1 of my chicken groups all winter and no issues.

Mine make noise any time someone comes close to the pen they are in as well as various times throughout the day or night, but they are not too load. My wife hates all our birds, so if they were too noisy we would not be able to keep them.

When free ranging ours do travel a fair distance, our property and our 2 neighbours, plus they cross the road and play around the railroad tracks. Our first group of guineas we had when they saw the school bus stopping in front of our house they would run out to it and stand about 10 feet from the bus door, I always watching thinking one day when the bus door opens they are going to hop on the bus.

This year when I raise up a few more young ones, I want to raise them in a pen in our bush, so maybe when I release them they will spend more time in the woods and eat more bugs in there.

I love the guineas, they are dumb, but awesome at the same time. I need to add some more coloured one to my flock this year.

JimW

kenya · Post by **kenya** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 10:38 pm

Were they all French guinea fowl? Just wondering if that variety is less noisy.

goatgal35 · Post by **goatgal35** » Thu Mar 24, 2016 6:00 am

Good Morning
My Hubby just preformed a mini intervention. I was outside chipping the ice off of my windshield so I could go and get me a chicken. Hubby comes out and asks what in the heck I'm doing because He thinks driving 123 kms one way in the freezing rain for a chicken is a wee bit crazy. Maybe he is correct, so I will go on a nicer day. Stay safe and have a good one :)

Brebis · Post by **Brebis** » Thu Mar 24, 2016 7:22 am

goatgal35 wrote:QR_BBPOST Good Morning
My Hubby just preformed a mini intervention. I was outside chipping the ice off of my windshield so I could go and get me a chicken. Hubby comes out and asks what in the heck I'm doing because He thinks driving 123 kms one way in the freezing rain for a chicken is a wee bit crazy. Maybe he is correct, so I will go on a nicer day. Stay safe and have a good one :)

You know you're a crazy chicken lady when...LOL!