http://littlehouseinthesuburbs.com/2009/07/guinea-hens.html simplicity, creativity, self-sufficiency,...minivans Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:41:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://littlehouseinthesuburbs.com/2009/07/guinea-hens.html/comment-page-1#comment-9919 Jackson Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:26:41 +0000 http://littlehouseinthesuburbs.com/?p=1326#comment-9919 We had guineas when I was a kid and they are fun but very different from a regular chicken. They are excellent watch dogs and will annoy your neighbors. I think they are a wild chicken from Africa. We had the grey and white ones and after awhile we got a mix of both. They wouldn't roost in the hen house but all over in the trees at night. Ours used to set up a nest every summer hiding in the best of places far from the house. They don't stop laying when they set so the nests would fill full and mama would show up with 4-5 babies and off we would go to try and find and dispose of the rest of the eggs to keep the raccoons and other critters away. We would take the eggs to the highest hill several miles from the house and launch the eggs with golf clubs out into the fields. The shells are soooo hard (if their were chicks inside they were long dead because the mom had left the nest). Just another something fun to do on the farm. We had guineas when I was a kid and they are fun but very different from a regular chicken. They are excellent watch dogs and will annoy your neighbors. I think they are a wild chicken from Africa. We had the grey and white ones and after awhile we got a mix of both. They wouldn’t roost in the hen house but all over in the trees at night. Ours used to set up a nest every summer hiding in the best of places far from the house. They don’t stop laying when they set so the nests would fill full and mama would show up with 4-5 babies and off we would go to try and find and dispose of the rest of the eggs to keep the raccoons and other critters away. We would take the eggs to the highest hill several miles from the house and launch the eggs with golf clubs out into the fields. The shells are soooo hard (if their were chicks inside they were long dead because the mom had left the nest). Just another something fun to do on the farm.

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