My sister was finally able to locate the hidding guinea nest. It had 60+ eggs in it, and out of those 60+ only 6 of them were bad. I didn't know how old the eggs were, and since they were too heavy to float properly, I had no idea which ones weren't good any longer, so I gave them all to my chickens. I had some very very happy hens lemme tell you what!!! LOL
The guineas are most displeased, and Ms. Bunny didn't steal all the eggs, leaving about 5 so they would potentially still lay their eggs there, but the nest was kind of really gross. I went in to look at it and they had obviously been laying their eggs here for a good LONG time. You could SMELL the nest long before you saw it... and it makes me really wonder how in the world I ever missed it!! However, in my defense, they DID choose to lay their eggs underneath a large mulberry tree that drooped down to the ground and created a natural "cave" of sorts. I think it even ended up "protecting" them from most of the rain, which is kind of neat.
Ever since the summer warmth kicked in I stopped bothering to pen them up, so they've been "on their own" without me feeding them at all for probably close to 4-months.
We had 4 guineas to start with, thought we had at least 1 roo, but have not seen any keets out of them, so if we do have a roo, the hens are just too stupid to properly raise the chicks and keep walking away from them & they all die... OR we don't have a roo at all. Either way... I'm not very impressed with guineas. Thinking of butchering them out when I butcher out the roosters... but we'll see.
