Rural Gardening: Guinea fowl nest, 1 by rutholive

rutholive wrote:
I knew my guinea hen had hidden her nest. Been searching for it for a month or more. I was afraid the weasel might have found it and eaten the eggs. Just a thought on my part, don't know if weasels eat egg but kind of remember reading that they might. Anyway yesterday my little dog Bluebird got too close to where she had made her nest. and did she, the guinea set up a fuss, Blue didn't know what the problem was. I looked closely and finally saw the nest. it is close to edge of lawn right at the base of a large daylily plant. She had pulled off old daylily leaves for the nest. As I didn't know where it was I know it got sprinkled with water when I was irrigating nearby.

I really had decided that 2 guinea fowl are all my garden can handle so didn't really want any more. She hasn't begun setting and maybe isn't going to. There are 28 eggs in the nest. I think I will gather them so that she won't begin setting.

Donna S