There's a guinea in my bathroom

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So I get home from work and go in to take a leak and something is moving behind the toilet.

I look down and it's a guinea.

I ask Ms HD and she said "well I found him tangled in the fence. He had got a string from a feed sack wrapped around his feet and the other birds had pecked him bloody. I took a knife and unwrapped the string and cut it all off.
I was afraid he'd get killed and I didn't know what else to do for him so I put him in the bathroom. Be sure to keep the door shut":rolleyes:

You sometimes share your living space with birds when both partners in a relationship are animal lovers:D;)
 
There are a dozen or so chicks in the house here. They are some kinda chicken that lays chocolate colored eggs. My sister ordered them a year ago and they just came in, she had forgot all about them. Cute little guys, but they make a lot of noise. :D
 
tedwca said:
There are a dozen or so chicks in the house here. They are some kinda chicken that lays chocolate colored eggs. My sister ordered them a year ago and they just came in, she had forgot all about them. Cute little guys, but they make a lot of noise. :D
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Wow. Are they Marans or Welsummers? I always wanted some Marans for like 20 years but they have really only become commercially available in the last couple of years.

Hey Ted? Since you live in Sacramento and you are talking farming any chance you know my goatkeeping friends out there Tom and Veronica Pettibone?
 
I'll check with my sister, she's the one that collects animals. The family property is in Auburn, CA which is about 30 miles outside of Sacramento. I'm a city boy all the way. :)
 
tedwca said:
There are a dozen or so chicks in the house here. They are some kinda chicken that lays chocolate colored eggs. My sister ordered them a year ago and they just came in, she had forgot all about them. Cute little guys, but they make a lot of noise. :D
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I totally missed that word. I was like, "No way! I want a chicken that lays chocolate eggs. That's better than a goose who lays golden eggs since I would just use the gold to buy chocolate. The chicken cuts out the middle man, and that, my friend, is streamlining!"...Then I got sad because I re-read that the eggs are not indeed chocolate but some kind of tricksy false inedible hardened protein. So now you're left with noisy birds that do nothing but lay eggs of sugarless disappointment:(:(;)
 
puukkoman said:
Kids? Do what?
Run all over the house? Make noise? Lay chocolate-colored "eggs?"

Ohhhhh, riiiiiight.... Kids bring home animals. ;) :D
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That's true too, but I was thinking that my kids were chickens running all around the house. They stopped laying chocolate eggs when they learned to get to the potty faster. Really, the big thing now with my six year old is rocks. We have rocks gathered from the far reaches of middle earth placed about in the house and the cars.
 
Neato. My dad's mom always liked having guineas around. We ate them, and their eggs too. At Easter time we'd color some of the guinea eggs up and pock with them.

All dark meat on a guinea. Neato birds.
 
Unfortunatly our friend the guinea didn't make it. The exposure and bullying by the other birds while he was down musta done him in:rolleyes:

The good news is about 20 of his bretheren are still alive:D:thumbup:
 
When I still lived at home, my younger brother Robert was Mr Rescue.

Seemed like hardly a week would go by without him bringing in some injured critter for me to (try to) fix up: goose and monster-sized rabbit who fell off truck; cat who was bitten by dog; bird who flew into TV antenna and broke wing; dog with badly cut foot; etc. etc.

He even found a Kestrel that someone had evidently tried to trap, leaving the little hawk with feet tangled in monofilament fish line. It tore a hole in my best leather work gloves as we worked to get him free. (I think it was saying $*&x@*%$ humans!!! :D)

To his credit, Robert found homes for all of them who survived, which was most. Good thing! ("No, Robert, we absolutely do not have room for five more rabbits.")
 
I always felt bad when losing any of our Farm animals, felt like I let them down somehow. I've never had Guineas before, but I hear they are roamers! Like to move about and make their presence known, and the presence of strangers. :thumbup:

I did have Welsumer Chickens for a couple of years, they are not only beautiful birds but the colored egg is a neat aspect also. We have Auraucana Chickens (from South America) aka: "Easter Egg" chickens here in the South. They lay a light Blue, Pink or Light to Dark Green egg (each Hen lays the same colored Egg throughout her life - not tye dyed like a Hippy T-Shirt) :D
 
Smaller than chicken, easy to keep, very predator savvy and quite tasty. They're supposed to raise quite a ruckus whenever somebody or something sets foot on their property.

I've got three laying hens I keep in the back yard in a tractor. Big deal in a heavily urbanized area like the Bay Area. They free range during the day(haven't jumped the back fence yet) and I lock them in their tractor overnight. Had them since mid april and they haven't been any problem at all. They can get a little noisy when agitated or asserting their pecking order.
 
Hillbillenigma said:
I always felt bad when losing any of our Farm animals, felt like I let them down somehow. I've never had Guineas before, but I hear they are roamers! Like to move about and make their presence known, and the presence of strangers. :thumbup:

I did have Welsumer Chickens for a couple of years, they are not only beautiful birds but the colored egg is a neat aspect also. We have Auraucana Chickens (from South America) aka: "Easter Egg" chickens here in the South. They lay a light Blue, Pink or Light to Dark Green egg (each Hen lays the same colored Egg throughout her life - not tye dyed like a Hippy T-Shirt) :D
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HBE,

I always wanted Welsummers and Marans. I still want to get some because all my egg customers like the large dark eggs.

I have quite a few aracauanas but some people really dig and others won't try the green eggs.:)
 
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