Guinea Hen and Babies

I just wanted to share these pictuers of our Guinea hen and her babies. she hatched out about 1 1/2 weeks ago. They are doing very well. The babies somtimes do not do well in rainy weather but we so far have not had a rain since they were born.



Both the mom and dad guineas take care of the babys. When I throw out food for them and our chickens to eat in the chicken yard , the dad guinea chashes away the chickens and then they all eat in peace! And thats what you can see here in these pictuers. They have the feed all to them selves and are enjoying it!!

I did not know how many we had because of them always running around so quickly and was so hard to count. But now in this pictuer you can count them. It looks like theres 17. Its so neat to see them running around in the yard! You have to keep your distance though. The mom and dad are very protective and will chase at you if you get to close to the babies. They got poor Sarah one day, and now she makes sure she keep s a good distacne away!! If they start her way, she starts hollering!! They have chased at the boys a few time too.