The guinea keets have been enjoying their new playpen, out on the turkey building slats! Since it’s been warm enough during the day to keep their heatlamp off, we decided we would just let them up on the slats since they were already big enough not to go through the slats or fence.
The littlest one, Tiny, is still getting used to it, and doesn’t like to move very fast on the slats, but he is slowly getting the hang of it! We still put them back in the building every night. On the first picture, you can see the doorway that leads back into the building.
This is one of my favorite hens, and her name is Amy. She’s a little slower than all the rest doing everything, but she’s very cute and friendly. And on top of all that, she’s got a much longer beak and bigger eyes than all the rest of the hens! Mom calls her a little collie hen, since she’s got such a long beak! Even when all the hens are out, you can spot her easily because of her big eyes.
This is a rather interesting and accidental picture I got of our male guinea, while I had him cornered in the Rooster Pen. I have yet to figure out why he was turning his head upside down, but I’m glad I caught it. 
This is my favorite rooster, Daniel. Danny for short. I think he’s improving with the hens, including the younger ones. I have had him out with them and whenever he gets too rowdy, Jacob takes care of him. He hasn’t been chasing the hens as much, so I’m hoping he’s grown out of that phase he was in. 
Mom said in about two weeks we can start mixing foods with the younger/older hens and start moving them over to the Hen Pen!!
This is an old picture of Prince, which I have edited a little and added Scripture to.
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 15:55 & 57
I know the Scripture probably doesn’t really match the picture, but I couldn’t think of a better one. If anyone else can, please do let me know!!
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Hi Lacy,
I am so sorry to be late in leaving a comment here- Thanks for de-lurking on my website! Would it be ok for me to link to you? I really like your blog.
Thanks!
~*~Courtney~*~
Hello Courtney,
That’s alright, I don’t mind the comment being late.
Yes, I would love to have you linking to me if you want to!! I’m glad you like my blog. 
~ Lacy
Thanks Lacy!
~*~Courtney~*~
Hi Lacy. What do you do with all of your birds? Do you eat them or sell them?
Hello Sara,
We used to kill them and eat them, but we haven’t done that lately.
Now we use the chickens for eggs to cook with, and the guineas for eating bugs and watchdogs!
The guineas are excellent for keeping down on the bug population. The chickens help a little with that too, but they’re not as fast as the guineas.
Thanks for the comment!!
~ Lacy
I found some lavender guineas at the local feed store and the woman I talked to said that you can’t make pets ou of them. Do you know what she ment?
She probably meant you couldn’t get them as tame as chickens, or something like that.
Guineas naturally don’t like to be held or touched, they are more of a wild bird than a tame one. My little ones are already putting up a fuss when I pick them up!
You probably could tame them, it would just take a lot of patience and a lot longer than it would for a chicken or another fowl.
I remeber we had a chicken once, it was white and I had her very tame. At one time we had quite a few chickens. I think I could tame one, I think they’re beautiful.
Guineas are also very active and need lots of area to move in.
I probably could’ve tamed some of ours if I had spent a lot of time with them, but I had the little chickens to take care of too!!
How many chickens do you have on average?
Do you make your own bread?
Right now I think we have at least 28 chickens.. it could be more or less though, because I haven’t counted the older ones in quite some time, so that is just an estimation. Counting the younger ones too, of course.
We don’t make most of our bread. Mom has tried to make some here and there.
I have a really good recipie if you want it.