Larry, that pic was cropped off a lot, she was actually on a very long runner just to graze in a different spot for a few hrs. She had a huge pen that she stays in when we're at work that has her big dog house in it and fresh hay. Tonight we're picking up another nanny so she wont be lonely

hmmmmf!
Darn it!
PHARP!
BHURRUUUP!
yes dear!
I'll do it right away!
you look beautiful tonight!
awwwh now?

as opposed to

merwhaaa! phut phut phut chuk! chuk! chuk!

well thats what I hear but I have got tinitus!

I had a guinea that got attacked by a hawk. He was a year old at the time and of course he was my favorite. His name was Pokey and I'm sure he had something else wrong with him because he was always last, everyone always chased him, etc. I saw the hawk come down on him and ran over. I was literally 2 feet from the hawk before he took off. Pokey was bleeding from the eye and I was sure that the hawk took his eye. Kept him inside - the swelling on his face got worse and I ended up taking him to my vet (who happens to be an avian vet and charges me very little in times like this- love him!). We flushed his eye socket out and got hime started on antibiotics. Pokey lived in the house for 2 months before I let him back out. He adjusted pretty well to only being able to see out of one eye. About a month after I let him outside - I noticed that his face looked different. He had 2 eyes again! Apparently - the hawk pushed the eye down into his head and it rotated so that the back of the eye was all you could see. It was a good almost 1/4 -1/2 inch down inside the socket. So in time his eye corrected itself. His vision never was 100% in that eye but at least he could see some out of it. Weirdest thing I had ever seen. The vet wondered what that was down in his socket but just figured that it was swelling from the damage. Pokey kept his eye closed all the time so I never saw it rotating until he actually opened his eye and there it was.

This picture is blurry but the only one I can find on my computer. This was a few days after the attack. You can clearly see the swelling around his eye.

That's a great story, but IMO it's wrong. A guinea, or any other critter that loses an eye, does not regain sight in that eye! What I think you & yer vet were seein' was the 3rd eye lid... NOT the back of the eye ball. Eye balls don't rotate 360 degrees. The width of a guinea fowl's head is app 1" thick, & the eyeball is app 5/32" thick, so, the eye ball could not possibly have been pushed 1/2" down into the head. I have a head in the meat beetle tub, right now, & I'll show y'all the results, later on.

too soon to tell. The kind lady that contacted me here and helped me rescue the bird named him. He is acting male, In fact he is very cozy with Madelyn and making male sounds. However, he still could be "Jackie" . I have males with swept wattles and females with cupped...

" Making male sounds"? I'm not sure what that means.
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I was reading the Polish forum. They had a good (I thought) idea for lice or mites. They said to mix mitacide or lice powder with vaseline and put a dab under each wing and on the crest. I'm not so sure about the crest for guineas, but the other sounds like it would work, sorta like flea drops for dogs.

No, Tery.. don't do that! I've explained *why not*, before. If ya think yer guineas have mites, & ya think ya need to treat 'em, mix some DE or Sevin dust in yer dust bath tub & let 'em do it themselves. Very simple.
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too soon to tell. The kind lady that contacted me here and helped me rescue the bird named him. He is acting male, In fact he is very cozy with Madelyn and making male sounds. However, he still could be "Jackie" . I have males with swept wattles and females with cupped...

Hello to all and my apologies for being gone so long! We've just had A LOT going on the past 2 months around here from vacaion to building projects.

So tonight I finally figured out what is wrong w/ 1 of my keets that is about 10-12 weeks old. It's blind! I did several tests and watched it for a very very long time, trust me it is blind. It does seem to function just fine, finding the food, water and is even able to get up in the box areas to sleep. For a long time I thought maybe it couldn't fly well, but now I know that it is blind.
Has anyone else had this happen? My thoughts at this point are that I will just have to keep it penned it's whole life, but it seems perfectly happy for now.

Kelly? Trust ME! Yer guinea is NOT blind! If it can "function just fine", find food & water, & can "get up to the box area", it can see.
Think about it!
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this morning underneath my hen's roosting spot - rafters in the barn - we found the remnants of an egg without any shell (it did have a membrane surrounding it). she always lays her eggs between noon and 2 pm in the tall grasses outside of the barn. this egg was definitely dropped during the night. i.e. no shell formation at the time of drop. yesterday's egg that we picked up from the nest was fine, good shape, size and hard shell. my instincts say she must have been really spooked during the night. anybody here have any ideas? thanks.sam

Did it look like this, Sam? If so, it was probly just a glitch in the system, & I wouldn't worry bout it. If ya find 'em, & they ain't broke, eat 'em.

Mid-summer low temp in Austin, Texas is app 80 degrees. I wouldn't worry about keets gettin' *chilled* at that temp!!
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It's a shame, that not very many of his so-called "friends" responded to his photo. I think he deserves better'n that, but that's just my opinion of course .....
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I agree with Geoffrey... they are most likely domestic *wild* turkeys.
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IMO: That tether line is much too short for Lola, & ya gotta provide some sorta shelter for her. A large dog house would be great!
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time will tell.. but ya can't tell yet.
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maybe even some pied Coral Blues!(blue-family color from the lavender and semi-spotted gene from the RP). Wouldn't that be nice!

long time no see! Did you get a lot of rain?

I agree. Also the cere looks very smooth. Time will tell; the keet is young yet.

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I just had to tell yall that mine arre doing the same thing! When I release some young guineas, an older hen always "adopts" them! It is too cool!

How cute! Can't wait to see the baby too! Wish we could have goats but covenants prohibit goats, pigs and peafowl. Thanks for sharing pic!

WOW! That's amazing and awesome pics! Thanks for posting!

Meet Lola, our new pygmy goat! Got her laste yesterday and she's pregnant I'm co-op owning her with my best friend b/c she needs goat milk for her golden retriever breeding and we'll get the baby when it's ready to go She is super sweet and we'll be getting her another nanny pygmy as a buddy tomorrow Loving the farm life!!

Right now I have 9 nearly full-grown guineas, but I would still consider them teenagers. They follow various pairs of adult guineas around all day. The adult hens don't seem to mind, but I've seen the males run at them and try to get them to go away. I've seen the same thing with small keets who take up with adults who aren't their hatchlings.

The pied lavender hen that I got from Carl a couple of years ago finally has a mate! Her and the big purple male from Hedy. I guess they both felt like outcasts. The other three from Hedy (1 male and 2 females) still stay together as a group.

Please share a picture of her!
I've had 6 or 7 German Shepherds around my birds and all have been wonderful with the guineas except one. I have pictures somewhere of the GSD sleeping and guineas walking all around them. lol

Congrats! Please post picture and tell us the new name! Lucky dog to adopt you.

Well, that is excellent information, Cindy. That explains why my Coral (CB) ended up blending in and bonding with the 6 Pack of teenagers, 3 LGs and 3 PGs. Now I see that it was a mutually advantageous coming together.
This is only the second summer and fall of cycling incubator, chicken hen and guinea hen hatches.
I am thinking that chicken hens mature faster than Guinea hens as a whole. Therefore, I may see more of the possitive behavior you are describing.

This goes under what I call herd management information. When you read a chicken or guinea guide book, it usually talks about starting out, hatching, recipes, dressing out, etc. There is really NO guide about "Then What??"
That is why this forum is so valuable.
We deal with then what happens after your keets hatch and life goes on..