Test Nest Project w/ ideas for camouflage

by geoffrey, Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 13:31 @ Heritage Hens
edited by geoffrey, Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 13:48

Heritage Hens,

I recall your posting about wanting to create an indoor space to emulate the outdoors. When your birds are inside for long while like yours...they likely greatly appreciate every little thing you do to make it seem more like the out of doors. We all know guineas are a free ranging roaming bird in "the wild"....so we're sorta obligared to do as much as we can to enhance their roosting locations.

I'm going to utilize large stones and branch cuttings from any of the 8 Atlantic White Cedar trees here on our lot. Those cedar trees are a bit overgrown...their branches stay green for a long long while after being cut. The problem I'm trying to deal with mentally is how to blend tumble weeds into our rather pretty garden spaces...that's a real oxymoron type dilemma....a garden spot with huge dreadful looking weeds. I've got to be careful or my wife will have a REAL fit....and my kids too for that matter.

Yeah;...my guineas have not yet begun to lay either. Most of my hens are just 7 months old. Most (4 hens) will be 8 months old on the 15th of April....the other 3 hens are a month older. It could easily be 5 more weeks here before I begin to find eggs in nest spots. My place is close to the Canadian border too. I can drive there in 4 hrs...undoubtedly you're close as well, maybe closer to Canada than I am. The weather forecast was for snow here this morning but thankfully its not....much too sunny...not enough clouds....I'm not complaining.

Geoffrey