Re: Guineafowl (was Update on cannibals ... )

[Tony Nelson-Smith]

Martha - Do your guineafowl show any signs of intelligence ? Some years back, we kept peafowl, guineas and several varieties of fancy pheasant. The peafowl roosted as high as they could (tall trees, the peak of the roof, wherever). The pheasants were in large aviaries, mainly to stop them mixing (we had, for example, a Reeves who was a real killer). The guineas were free-range, for a little while; but they chose to roost no more than two feet off the ground and we lost most of them to a fox before we twigged.
As for noise, try a peacock above your bedroom window at four in the morning! One day, we had a visit from the recently arrived local policeman, looking very serious. A passing tourist had, he said, heard a girl crying for help from our house in the early morning. It took an age to convince him that it was only a peacock.
Tony N-S.







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