Guineas

April 3,

    Just a quick note to say I was jumping for joy yesterday when my 5 squawking Guineas came home!  Guineas are very hard to teach to roost in a certain area.  I kept ours locked up for weeks and just this week let them out to free range.  The first two nights they came home and went in their pen.  Night before last they did not come home.  I was sure they had flown the coop so to speak.  Later yesterday morning they come down out of the top wooded 30 acres, squawking and flapping all the way to their pen.  They are staying closer today so I feel they do know where they live and where the food comes from.

    Oh- current cattle count is 15. For two days we had NO cows. Now we have our cow and calf, then 3 of my granddaughter's,  and the rest visitors. I looked up yesterday to see 2 cows running across the pastures to join what cows that were here.  Word must be spreading that we have really good grass over here. We heard a good sized calf bawling about dark.  We went to let it out the gate to find its momma but  it turned and went up to the top of the tree line trying to find its mom just across the fence. Joe drove me up the hill above the calf and our dog Pia stayed with me as I herded it back through 3 fields to get back to the gate. Mind you I am in shorts and flip flops out in the dark.  Doesn't really conjure up an image of a cowgirl.  Poor Joe kept taking the truck from pasture to pasture trying to pick me up but the calf, Pia and I were moving too fast along the fence and hill and dale while he had to go around fences and cross the creek bed on the road.  I felt I had a good workout by the time he picked me up at the gate.  All is well and calf and cow were reunited.
The Cow Fairy strikes again!