ELeVan ~ Honaker Farm Journal

[elevan]

How is your keet with the broken leg?

I have a keet that got stepped on and it severely broke her one leg. It was barely hanging on. She had a lot of fight in her. I heated a pair of stainless scissors and in a quick cut, removed the leg. I banaged it. Today, she is known as Uno and she gets around fine on one leg. I do keep the stub wrapped in Vet wrap to provide some cushion on the end as she does use it to balance herself sometimes.

But she is doing great.

It's the craziest thing. Her leg has turned around and is now facing the right direction, the bone seems to have fused to the leg and it is swollen and severely bruised but she's able to use it as a kind of crutch. I didn't do anything with the leg to be 100% honest, so everything that is going right with it is all thanks to nature.

She is smaller and tires more easily but she's such a little fighter.

 

[elevan]

Well gosh darn it!

DH just came in and told me that Hoppy was dead in the pen.

 

[BarredRockMomma]

 

[Sunny & the 5 egg layers]

I am so sorry for your loss!

 

[redtailgal]

It's amazing how quickly they go down, isnt it?

You did all you could, that was good enough.

 

[elevan]

Thanks. It's frustrating to say the least.

On a positive note...I found a couple of guinea nests in the backyard. that they fill up the nests and go broody on them

 

[elevan]

I can hear coyotes out tonight

 

[elevan]

I forgot to mention that we have another broody...she has 6 chicken eggs.

I guess that the good thing about so many broodys (beyond hatching more eggs) is that I know that my chickens feel very comfortable in their environment and are able to follow their natural instincts because of it.




eta:

The website is done!

We weren't able to get the FB widget figured out but I'm pleased with the rest of it. Give it a look and tell me what you think.

 

[Symphony]

I'm gettin some Guienies. They will all be adults, any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[elevan]

I'm gettin some Guienies. They will all be adults, any suggestions would be appreciated.

We've never started with adults but we trained our keets in the same fashion as we would adults. Here's an excerpt from my blog post on it.

from the Honaker Farm blog:

We had read a lot about guineas needing to be trained to home so that they wouldnt run away when they are finally allowed to free range. And so we set to training our little ones to the coop that they will share with the chickens. We put the guineas into our built in brooder until they were fully feathered out. And then moved them to a large dog crate in the coop for a couple of weeks. The next step was to rotate some guineas into the main part of the coop while leaving the rest in the crate.