Family Hunting Day

https://kanchisilksarees.com/ya81vkwq Great to spend some time with the kids.  Emily’s boyfriend Erik ended up snagging a buck!

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Pond is almost full

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Deer Season – Opening Weekend

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Spagetti and meatballs for dinner!

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Steve made breakfast after the morning hunt

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Guineas Started Free Ranging

watch And were almost immediately decimated by predators!  I installed an door on the coop controlled by an electronic eye, open at dawn, closed at sunset.  Unfortunately the guineas left the coop but never came back!  Worse then that, they didn’t roost in the trees, but on the ground!  By the time I got back down there I could only rescue 4 of the 12+ guineas!  I locked them in the coop after this disaster to rethink how to get them to free range but return to the safety of the coop at night.

Five were left but I could only get 4 back into the coop

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Lots of the feather piles around the barn

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New Batch of Guineas

https://faroutpodcast.com/y1e9hsgg3a Ordered 36 guinea eggs of varying colors and hatched them in the incubator. Unfortunately only 16 hatched, but that is still plenty for us.

Guinea eggs in the incubator

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https://kanchisilksarees.com/gfv8vcy4z As part of this new batch I moved the guinea ‘house’ across the hall in the barn so that they can eventually free range from the lower part of the barn instead of through the area we keep the tractor, avoiding a huge mess.  Below are a few shots of the build-out process and end result.