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November 24, 2007
I never knew the true meaning of Cacawphony before
The sounds of 10 Guinea Fowl, free ranging through the yard, is almost deafening. All the females walk around saying BuckWheat, BuckWheat. (John, though, swears they are saying ButtCrack, ButtCrack).
And then, Satchmo, my little rooster crows, and Rocky, the huge rooster tries to crow (he does not have it down yet - he sounds pitiful) and the rest of the chickens walk around clucking and cooing.
It's funny. Loud, loud, loud and very unharmonious! I need to figure out how to record the noise so I can make an MP3 and put it here.
And they are not the prettiest birds, in fact, they are so ugly, only a mother can love this face:
But they are much fun and they eat bugs!!!!
Posted by Beth at November 24, 2007 10:16 AM
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And SWWBO is just that mother...
They are cute though. And Blanche has real guineality.
Posted by: John of Argghhh! at November 24, 2007 5:31 PM
Reminds me of a bumper sticker I saw on a VW back around 1960-something: "I may be small and ugly, but I eat insects!"
Or something like that.
Posted by: Justthisguy at November 25, 2007 12:31 AM
I hated my guinea at first then fell in love with them, only to have to get rid of them because the male Guinea loved to break his fellow chicken legs. He was a terror! He would just charge and all my roosters and some of my hens started limping around my backyard. So, my friend up north took the guinea and traded us a couple of ducks. He has a large Morton building that they can fly up in the rafters where our little intimate yard shed of a coop was just a little to upclose and personal for them.
Hey, I hope you take me up on my invite to become the Grizzly Groundswell Governor of Missouri! It would be nice to have some other poultry people on our site!
~Teddy Bear
Posted by: Grizzly Groundswell at November 25, 2007 1:09 AM