I've raised guineas before and nope, I don't think I'd ever use the word 'intelligence' in the same sentence as guineafowl. These 2 new ones are no exception. I had to go shoo them off the henhouse front wall several times, just so the new pullets wouldn't pile up on each other and smother in fear of the noisy roommates. Finally, I decided I couldn't spend all day at that so I shooed guineas out of the barn. They raced out and screamed at Candy, never having seen a llama before. Candy wasn't impressed (llamas are the silent types.) I'd already spent over an hour coaxing Candy back into the goat yard from out on the road. I didn't need her deciding to leave again so I shooed them away from her. It's suspiciously QUIET out there right now. Hopefully they've hooked up with the chickens somewhere, or decided to just go back home.
When we had guineas before, John had a gaggle of insurance sales reps sitting in the kitchen, trying to sell him something or other. These were definitely city boys, kept turning around to look at the 'farm life' just outside. My guineas thought it great fun to hop onto the roof of the hog shed, chase each other in a slide off the thing, then go screaming around to the other side to do it again and again. One young man finally asked me "What ARE those birds, anyhow?" On second thought, i'm not sure which has the higher IQ, a guinea or an insurance rep.
