Our guinea hens have been giving us 3 or 4 eggs every day recently. We believe we have 4 female guineas, so that's pretty good! We have 4 males, too.
The Easter egg trick is still working, so they haven't moved their nests in a few weeks. The only bad thing is that one nest is deep in a wild rose bush on the side of a hill. I get scratched up every time I collect eggs!
And so, for now, we are enjoying their eggs. Later this year we will hatch out some keets.
You can hear their "Buck-Wheat!" calls in the background in this video. The one calling is a female which is laying an egg in the rose bush as this video was taken. At least one of our guinea girls is very loud when she lays. I gave the guineas some cracked corn, which is one of their favorite treats, and one is enjoying it.
Thank you guinea girls!
5 comments:
Do they stop laying in the Spring or do they lay through Fall?
Chai Chai, I believe they lay right thru the summer, till autumn.
Those are very pretty eggs!
I really love the sound the guinea's make, I hope to have some again someday whenever I get to where I am going. I never had hens though so I have never eaten those eggs, do they taste different? My duck eggs used to have a very different flavor than chicken egss.
Very cool!
Terry - I love the spots on the guinea eggs! They are unique! And each guinea hen's eggs are a little different looking than the next. We are starting to figure out which guinea lays which specific eggs.
Laura - I hope you can have guineas again soon! And I hope you get some hens! Yes, I do notice a difference in the taste of their eggs. Different than chicken eggs, but I don't know how to describe it. I don't like them hard boiled. I usually scramble them and then I don't really notice a difference. I have never had a duck egg!
~Lynn
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