Guess what Evie found when she went out to feed the chickens this morning?
 |
| Fight or flight? Fight or flight? I can't make up my mind! |
If you guessed a guinea with
17 chicks waiting at the gate, you guessed right! What a surprise! Especially since we thought all three of our guinea were female.
 |
| Fight! See how her back feathers are all puffed up? She is also hissing at me. |
Evie caught all the chicks (keets, actually) while the mother was eating and we got them all settled into the brooding side of the coop. We have never had a bird go off in the woods and successfully hatch out a nest of chicks. Mark has three nests brooding under hens right now, something that I wasn't happy about. We already have too many chickens. But I can't be mad about a guinea hatching her own nest in the woods. Evie has named the mama guinea "Miracle" and is completely smitten with the keets. Now we just need to clean up the brooding side and make a proper space for them. (Thank goodness the weather is warm; the snake is using the warming light)
