Guinea eggs!?

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I was working in the greenhouse and a hen started making a big commotion BaBWOCK!  BaBWOCK!! (etc-)I looked out just in time to see a red hen (chicken) on the perch of the high rise guinea house, just before she took off.  She was most likely shrieking about her imminent long flight, like she was on the high dive board.I turned back to work, and then it occurred to me - What was she doing up there?  Could she be laying eggs in the guinea house?!I got a step ladder, climbed up to see, and sure enough, she WAS laying in the guinea house.  For a few days.  Well THAT helps explain the loss in egg production I was troubled by.But hark.  She´s not the only one laying in there!  There are lovely pale brown pointy guinea eggs in there too!  What a sweet little nest.Cool.  Guinea eggs!  She´s not laying in the woods after all.Nice to know at least the guinea hen knows how to go inside her coop, even if she does sleep outside no matter the weather.As for the chicken hen, what a cuckoo! 

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