Friday 17 April 2015

I'm a mumma..........

after all the thoughts of wether we did or didn't have a male ginea fowl well clearly we must................AND finally we have baby keets........yes guinea fowl babies are called keets...........
This is mumma yesterday........pretty much the view from my lounge......
this morning the guinea fowl were carring on crazy and I looked out and saw mumma was not on the nest and I saw little things moving OMG OMG OMG............
the guinea fowl were carrying on as there was a kookaburra and butcher bird hanging around.........
the 3 other guinea fowl were hanging around to help protect the babies..........
They have hatched 10 babies.........we caught Mumma and all the babies.......1 went under the house......1 was pretty flat so when we caught the one from under the house we kept it with the flat one...........Fairy Girl is playing mother today but we will probably keep them in a box  with a heat light.......if we couldn't catch mumma we were going to raise the keets but Mumma was super protective and wanted to kill us so we were able to catch her in a net and put her and the babies in a cage.............
I'll try and get another pic for you of the babies.............
Catch you later.......
Chookyblue.........

16 comments:

kiwikid said...

Oh wow!! They are such cute little babies!!! Hopefully mumma can raise them all safely! Well done for protecting them!

Cath said...

Oh, how very special. Watching out on their progress!

Michelle Ridgway said...

Aww! So cute. Mumma must have been frantic for her babies. Well done on the rescue x

jude's page said...

Congratulations, they are gorgeous babies

Anonymous said...

Wow they are so cute Mumma chooky ,Thankyou for sharing xx

CountryMum said...

They are so very cute!,

Susie said...

Oh how cute!

Fiona said...

oh so sweet....
Hugz

Susan said...

Very cute. A good rescue.

Salley said...

Such excitement! How nice that it was school holidays.

Diane-crewe said...

thank goodness you were able to save them ... and mum x WELL DONE to you all x will be waiting for up-dates xx

Carin@Ullhärvan said...

So very cute!

Simone Harding said...

So cute x

wish2stitch said...

That's so exciting. Fairy girl will have a ball.

Maria said...

What cute babies...and thanks you Chooky, I now know they are keets

Anthea said...

That butcherbird & kookaburra have no idea who they're messing with!