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Post by mikemurphy on Feb 12, 2009 21:24:02 GMT 8
Sold several of my guinea fowl and through a mix of circumstances ended up with one single bird in the pen. She's been wandering around for days calling for her mates and I feel SOOOO bad. I know there's another one out in the bush sitting on eggs and when it comes back they'll be okay together, and also I have a keat rapidly growing to a size it will need a friend, and 12 more eggs about to hatch, but in the meantime this bird with its sad lonesome call is haunting me. Even thinking of calling the people who bought by birds and asking for one back.
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Post by horses7 on Feb 12, 2009 21:34:42 GMT 8
Mike, that is so sad, hope she doesnt make herself ill by fretting so much.
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Post by lakelands on Feb 12, 2009 21:37:02 GMT 8
I know how you feel. I just gave away the rest of my cross breed roosters today which were in the pen with my Frizzle roo. He is all alone now and has been looking longingly through the fence at the hens
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Post by mikemurphy on Feb 12, 2009 21:38:59 GMT 8
Oddly enough she seems to calm down when she is with our kangaroos and they are grazing. She frazes with them. But when they find a shady spot and lie down she sets off wandering around and soon starts calling again. It's the two-note female call and to my guilty ears it sounds like "come back" "come back".
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Post by lakelands on Feb 12, 2009 21:46:40 GMT 8
oh so sad......poor little thing
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Post by fluffychook on Feb 13, 2009 6:47:19 GMT 8
You feel for the poor things, hopefully it will not be sad for too long.
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Post by beck on Feb 13, 2009 15:23:28 GMT 8
oh mike that is so sad i hope the other chicks hatch soon and she will be happy
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Post by mikemurphy on Feb 14, 2009 19:24:21 GMT 8
An odd development this evening. A GLW hen I have which hatched out some keats decided she was deserting the only survivor ( 6 weeks old) and joined the rest of the flock on perches in the shed. The keat followed her onto a lower perch where it has been sitting cheeping. The lone guinea fowl is on an outside perch in an adjacent connected pen and she has become extremely unsettled. She hops down from the perch, rund around, flies back up again. I think she can hear the keat. Hopefully she will find it and start mothering it. That would be great for both of them.
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Post by fluffychook on Feb 14, 2009 19:27:24 GMT 8
Maybe an introduction service would help....lol
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Post by lakelands on Feb 14, 2009 21:09:06 GMT 8
got any other broody hens that will adopt it
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Post by mikemurphy on Feb 15, 2009 15:07:27 GMT 8
The keat spent the night roosting with the other hens and this morning was out and about with "Mum". I have opened another pen of glw chicks so it can mix with them and I am wondering if it will spend tonight with them. The guinea fowl didn't take any more notice of it. She has spend most of today with the kangaroos. Still calls occasionally but not as much as before.
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Post by mikemurphy on Feb 22, 2009 6:49:06 GMT 8
Bought two guinea fowl at the Albany chook auction and put them with the lone guinea fowl. The settled together very quickly but she still calls frequently. Now I wonder if she is calling for a particular mate rather than for the rest of her flock. Will be interesting to watch how they get on after I open the pen and let them out to forage, whether they stay together or she goes her own way. Meanwhile, the single keat sleeps under "Mum's" wing on the highest perch with the rooster and the "senior" hens. During the day I let the other chicks out and it runs around with them so everyone seems happy.
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Post by beck on Feb 22, 2009 16:26:07 GMT 8
glad she has settled a bit don't they make you feel guilty for selling the others i wonder if the person that bought the others has the same problem with the keets calling all the time for there mates
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Post by mikemurphy on Mar 3, 2009 7:19:34 GMT 8
Read my thread on the bumps and you'll see she's still in her pen alone calling for her mates, and it's all her fault I got the other two little monsters which are now causing chaos in my quiet, orderly life. Perhaps it's my punishment.
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