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["Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT gmail.com>]

 On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:

> Research says raise guineas from chicks so they know where home is and
> especially train them to believe that sleeping in a house is
> appropriate. Guineas are semi-wild and resist domestication. When next
> I get them I intend to get a dozen or so eggs and put them under a
> broody hen so when they hatch they will bond with her as their mother.

Yes, that does work. The last bunch of guineas, who I got as day-old
keats, roosted in the hen house with the chickens. Unfortunately, I
was between dog guardians, so the hen house became the local buffet
for the area coon population. They did better when they roosted in the
hackberry over the donkey shed; the owls rarely took more than one or
two a night. <sigh>

Now I'm back up to full dog census. One LGD is a sweetheart with most
living creatures (aside from wanting to kill one of the bcs, but I
can't really fault her for that), but the other is a 100+ pound,
8-month-old puppy who wants to play with everything. I look forward to
interesting conversations with all the canines.

Marie