It can't be good.
These are the guinea fowl hatched by our surrogate mother, Ms. Broody White Orpington. She picked up where the buff Orpington left off and hatched our quartet here. Looks like two pearls and two lavenders (possibly white but odds are with the lavs). It is yet to be determined which sex they are as its difficult to discern by sight. Most guineas are sexed by their call and these are blessedly quiet for the most part. That will change and we will hear the annoying, telltale "buck wheat" bleat soon enough.
These birds grew up inside after being snatched from their hatching place and now are fletched out enough to brave the great outdoors, under protection. Soon we will integrate them into the rest of the flock, but not before they've all been introduced and the young ones are happy enough to stick around.
In the next week we should have a new group hatch from our incubator (the mechanical one, not Ms. Broodypants). Our workroom will once again smell like a barn.
No comments:
Post a Comment