Lavender Guinea Keets - UPDATE

I've got some sad to news to inform you all - the Lavender Guinea Keets have died, or should I say murdered :-(

I introduced them into the chicken pen on Saturday. They were getting too big to be kept in the cage I had them in, plus they were getting too stinky and needed to be moved out of the garage. I felt the chicken pen was the safest place - boy was I wrong.

I knew the chickens would peck them and give them a hard time but felt since Guineas are more on the gamey side that they'd be able to fly up on the roosts to get away to a safe spot. Well, I was wrong. The chickens actually killed them and it wasn't too pretty a site either. Of course if that wasn't bad enough Emilie was the first one to see the carnage. She was SO excited to go see how they were doing. She was completely devastated and terribly upset and still is today.

RIP

Earlier posting titled, "Lavender Guinea Keets"

Lavender Guinea Keets

Here are the newest additions to our Lincoln Street menagerie - 2 Lavender Guinea Keets. These young'n are three weeks old. They're to young to sex, so we're not sure what we have but hopefully it's a boy and a girl.

Emilie and I went to the Boston Poultry Shows small animal flea market, held at the Holliston Gun Club, this morning. This flea market is held twice a year; spring and fall and always has quite a variety of poultry and small animals. Emilie wanted a duckling but that wasn't going to happen so we settled on these critters. When allowed to roam they're supposed to be excellent bug catchers, especially ticks; lyme disease carrying ticks - we'll see come next spring/summer.

For the curious folk, below is a guinea keet dropping...

Click here to see the Guinea keet color chart