Nine years ago , when Mom and Dad bought this farm , some new friends gave them a box of guinea keets . Mom and Dad enkindle them in a brooder in the theatre . When they let old enough to come outdoors , Dad made them a coop and a covered French Guinea - fowl yard . Finally , they were big enough to set off running around the 1000 by themselves . How exciting ! Off they give out in a bragging , happy group , belt along toward thepasturebehind the sign of the zodiac . That night , only three came back . Dad put them back in the Numida meleagris - fowl playpen , where they stayed until they were fully grown . The next metre they came out , they were smart and stay a lot stuffy to the planetary house .
you may separate male and distaff guinea bird aside because females make a speech sound that males do n’t . Some the great unwashed say it sounds like they ’re saying , “ Buck - straw ! Buck - wheat ! ” and others that it ’s “ Put - rock candy ! Put - rock ! ” Whatever it is , none of our guinea fowl made that audio . All three survivors were male . Then , a few years ago , one take flight into the side of thebarnand break his neck . Now , there are only two knight bachelor Republic of Guinea fowl , Click and Clack .
clack and Clack scream like banshees , specially if anything strange comes near our yard be it visitor , a gage , or a vulture circling overhead . Nothing sneaks past these birds ! They ’re very practiced guards .
Click and Clack keep our thousand gratis of creepy-crawly thing , like ticks . We ’re grateful becausetick bitesmake humans and brute sick .
Click and Clack are call Helmeted Guinea Fowl . Their ancestors come from Africa long ago . Humans domesticated them because they ’re good to wipe out because they taste like wild - game birdie , and their eggs are toothsome , too . There are still groundless Helmeted Guinea Fowl in Africa , where flocks of several hundred birds are usual ; imagine the noise they make ! Those guinea fowl are grey with blank polka - dotted feather like our friend Clack . It ’s the most common guinea - fowl color , and it ’s bid drop . Click is lavender with white polka battery-acid . Guinea fowl come in lots of other colour , too , like white , royal purple , coral amobarbital sodium , buff , slate , chocolate and porcelain ; some have spots , some do n’t .
Guinea fowl can fly really well — up to 400 or 500 feet at a time — and sometimes , they roost high up in tree diagram . But Click and Clack prefer to roost on the stall divider in thesheepshed at night . They poop in the sheep ’s water . That pass water Mom mad . Mom moves the tub , and Click and Clack move over , too . Uzzi and I mean they ’re yank Mom ’s chain .
While guinea fowl can vanish , they prefer to extend instead . Ours carom around the yard for no apparent reason : snap chases Clack and then Clack chases Click . If there ’s method acting to their madness , we do n’t acknowledge what it is . Sometimes ourlambschase the guinea bird , too . The guinea fowl raceway just fast enough to quell out of the lambs ’ reach . you could tell they enjoy the game .
Mom and Dad and the rest period of us animals think Click and Clack are incredibly cool bird . Maybe you should get some guinea poultry , too ?
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