These are some new additions to the farmstead. Basically they are food. This is what you get when you buy those pre-cooked bbq chickens at your local food store. They sit around all day, and I mean sit, waiting for their next meal. The gusto with which they dive into the food bowl is truly impressive. I will add a growth chart one of these days.
Guinea Juvie
These are the most recent hatch of twenty-nine guineas roosting in the juvenile detention center. Ten were handed over to a local friend in exchange for a handful of peafowl. This area was originally intended to be quarters shared with the peafowl; but the guineas had a turf war, defeating the pacifist peafowl quite handily, in fact killing a couple for good measure. !@#$ guineas.
Peafowl
These are the remaining peafowl that survived the guinea assault. They are getting along famously with the cornish crosses. These will remain here for 6 weeks or longer for "home" training, and moved into the aforementioned juvie detention center once the !@#$ guineas are released with the adults (where they will experience payback in the form of the same merciless pecking they handed out to the peafowl).
Goose Eggs
Goose egg laying ended in July. There was an apparent peak in early March, but due to the loss of a layer at that time there is a false drop in egg laying for the remainder of the season. It looks like these geese have a fairly broad laying season extending from March through May, tapering off from then until early-mid July.
More Ducks
I collected an additional ten ducks from a farmer in Salinas who was parting out his flock. They don't appear to be great layers given the lack in increase in egg output. They were bought sight unseen. My mistake, never again.
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