guinea fowl

What are these birds

My niece noted these birds sitting on a neighbors' fence. Can you please tell me what in heck they are?

Rats in the chicken run

The rats are back. The harvests are in and they are looking for a decent source of food and water for the winter. What better than a spacious run with layers’ pellets, fresh vegetable scraps in the...

The Indian Runner ducks have gone

Freddie, Tipex and Eric Boss had a final breakfast of French beans, emptied the fresh water fountain and moved to their new and permanent home on Sunday morning. S and Rollo arrived with a sturdy...

The Indian Runner ducks have moved on

Freddie, Tipex and Eric Boss had a final breakfast of French beans, emptied the fresh water fountain and moved to their new and permanent home on Sunday morning. S and Rollo arrived with a sturdy...

Escape

I opened the back door as John Coe was about to come through. He was speaking. “I can hear her in the next garden.” I opened the door wide. His face crumpled when he saw that it was me. He stood...

How to tell if your eggs are fresh

When I cracked the eggs into the frying pan this morning one egg was clearly much fresher than the other. The first had a yolk standing just right above the white like a small hillock. The next had a...

Update on the Farming Friends - Cottage Smallholder Interblog Guinea Fowl Breeding Event. A new home

June 2007 saw the launch of the Farming Friends – Cottage Smallholder Guinea fowl breeding event, when Sara sent us six guinea fowl eggs in the post to put under our broody hen Mrs Boss. Since then...

Update on the Farming Friends - Cottage Smallholder Interblog Guinea Fowl Event. Gentle beings.

June 2007 saw the launch of the Farming Friends’ – Cottage Smallholder’s Interblog Guinea Fowl Event. Looking back at the  guinea fowl posts this is a well rounded cycle. Amazing highs...

Cottage Smallholder – Farming friends Interblog Guinea Fowl breeding event update, nearly six months

I am growing fonder of my 19 week old Guinea Fowl by the day. They are the progeny from the Farming Friends – Cottage Smallholder Interblog Guinea Fowl Breeding Event. This event was started six...

Cottage Smallholder Interblog Guinea Fowl Breeding Event. Update; our guinea fowl are now 15 weeks o

Back in June 2007 Sara at Farming Friends sent us six guinea fowl eggs in the post to put under our broody hen Mrs Boss. Five eggs hatched out. Sadly, our favourite and the only snow white keet,...

We think that we have a male keet. Farming Friends – Cottage Smallholder Interblog Guinea Fowl Breed

Back in June Farming Friends sent us six guinea fowl eggs in the post to put under our broody hen Mrs Boss. Five eggs hatched out. Sadly, our favourite and the only snow white keet, Lightning, died a...