Goodbye guineas
I finally packed up some guineas for life in a new home. I sewed up a net out of the bird netting and experimentally caught a rooster with it. That was as easy as lightly dropping the net over the rooster, who just looked around and fell over, confused.The guineas did not go that easy. They are fast, smart, twice as strong as chickens, and explosive. They took ages to snag and then untangle and pop in a box.The major, major challenge was getting the right guineas. They're all paired up now, and I can't separate any happy couples. I had to figure out who is with who, so that I could send them away in pairs. So I was out there watching them mill around together, not unlike watching a pack of teenagers at a mall and trying to deduce who likes who.Even tougher, after figuring out who's with who, how to tell them apart later when trying to capture them in a shrieking crowd? So I was out there sketching the fleshy face flaps that they have with unique red and white patterning (not the same on right and left etiher). In the end, they made it easy by one pair going in the greenhouse before the others, so I shut them in, and the chase ensued.One catch ended up bagging a Brahma in with the guinea. She was not amused. But the guineas have been moved. The first shipment are reported to have rapidly integrated with the onsite guineas. New girls! :) The second shipment is going to be fruitful and multiply as the first guineas in a new place, wanted for their tick eating properties.We're in a milk crate. Ok, joke's over. Ha. Ha.