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... they don't tear up and eat the landscaping. Bugs are their prey, and they are voracious eaters.
Guineas were popular on Victorian tables, but have mostly been lost to modern cooking. Guineas can be a good choice for a small flock. They are also beautiful, and are bred in a bewildering variety of feather colors, as shown by Ralph Winters' stock ...
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Let’s get one thing straight. He was brilliant wasn’t he? Travelled like a dream, cruised to the lead and accelerated like a Ferrari. Vr m. Bye bye Sea The Stars, hello St Nicholas Abbey. Two horses of the century in two years. 6/1 for the 2000 Guineas and the Derby? Yes please.
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... latex gloves, but other than that I almost have it done.
My next animal housing project is of course the chicken coop. I am trying to decide now whether or not to follow the same blueprint for their yard that I used for the guineas. Right now I have a plan to make their area a good deal larger (since we plan on adding more chickens) and with a mobile coop equipped with laying boxes.
We are also ...
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... wasn't making enough milk for both growing babies. My boys have enjoyed that chore.
The little stinkers love to climb through the gate!
(The goats not the boys, the boys climb OVER the gates).
and then there are the guineas. I have 14 adults and they make A LOT of noise. I sold the 16 young ones I had last week.
They love to hang out on the stall doors and "talk" while I'm ...
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Some of the local women and children will open his pen and take him for a walk up and down the canyon road... to give him something interesting for the day. All in all, it's a bit of a sad life for the little old guy. Still he's better off than many animals in factory farming conditions... kept in stalls too small to turn around in, and deprived of sunlight.
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I'm playing Freerice for country-identification, and I have discovered that there are, like, twice as many Guineas as I thought.
- Guinea
- French Guinea
- Papua New Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Equatorial Guinea
- Guyana (not technically guinea but pretty close in spelling so I am arbitrarily counting it, too)
I think I knew about 3 of those--Guyana, French Guinea, and Papua New Guinea. I ...
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