Limpy The Guinea

A guinea stepped on a bee! It can't walk very well because its foot is swollen. I am keeping it in a little pen while its foot heals, so the others will not peck it. It wants to get out to be with the other guineas and they want it out too. They just want to be together. A few days later I let it out. I named it Limpy. It can walk pretty well now, but it's still limping a little. Instead of running it hops on its good leg and flaps its wings.

Roosters

We got "straight run" when we bought our chicks last spring. So we ended up with 28 roosters and 22 hens. The roosters had been pecking the hens a lot and eating the feathers off of their backs, so I moved most of the roosters to another yard. I left Goldy and Collar (our two dominant roosters) with the hens. Twisty gets to stay with the hens too, since he is very small & immature & his beak is too deformed to ever breed & pass on that poor trait. I don't think he'd survive very long with 24 maturing roosters.
When I originally divided the hens & roosters up, I accidentally left a couple of other roosters with the hens. They were not mature enough to be sure they were roosters. When I was sure that 2 more were roosters, I penned them up in the rooster pen so they could get used to each other. After several days of this I turned them loose to see if they could integrate. One did & one did not. I ended up having to give the one away that couldn't find its place. So we have 24 roosters in our pasture development field now. They are really improving our pasture. We have some nice green grass growing where they have been, rather than just the wild flowers, sparse native plants & weeds (stickers).
I am feeding the roosters different food from the hens. The roosters get a mix of wheat, milo, corn, oats, Organic wheat, Organic flax seed, kelp, kitchen scraps, and grit. Oh yeah, they also get all the weeds, seeds, bugs & grass they can forage!

A Chicken got hurt!

On the 24th of April I was playing with the chicks and I saw blood on my hands. One of the chicks was getting pecked. Part of one of its toes was hanging loose. I took it inside and cut off the loose piece of toe. It didn't want to eat. I was letting it eat yogurt water. It was just lying still not doing anything. I thought it was going to die. I put it back in with the others and the next day it was doing just fine. :) I named it Lonely because it always stayed away from the other chicks.