GUINEA FOWL
anne nixon-ellery
Ok ~ so I wanted some guinea fowl for several reasons but the number one was they eat ticks.
I bought fertile eggs & incubated them. I’ve not had that much success with them in the past & this was no different… 3 had splayed legs… after asking the lovely Faye she told be about making a sort of sling that their legs go through & putting them in the top of a jar. This worked amazingly well with one of them & their legs were almost perfect. I made a ‘PT’ bowl for exercise & this was going really well too… until our sneaky cat stole him from right under my nose :( I chased him but the deed was done… I was soooooooo upset. Then the other 2 died a couple of days later… urgggggggg ~ I went from thinking I could fix them to killing them.
So when I discovered one of the other chicks legs were wonky I thought it best to leave them alone. But they got worse & worse… they are a little less than a month old. This poor bird can get around but it would never survive free range.
Is there somewhere I can take it to get them fixed? I don’t mind driving ~ I just can’t spend loads of money… any veterinarian school? or similar…
