Born Again Redneck's Daily Duh!: My South African guinea-fowl

Monday, June 25, 2007

My South African guinea-fowl

The guinea-fowl keets are all grown up and, on Saturday, we let them out of the hen-house for the first time to roam in the meadow. Guinea-fowl are more closely related to turkeys than chickens. They are very noisy birds. The hens bray - heehaw - like donkeys and the cocks have a strange sharp staccato extraterrestrial-sounding call. Hearing them makes me feel like I am back in Africa.

The guinea-fowl detest our cat who stalks them. This is a video of guinea-fowl chasing off a wild cat in their native habitat in Africa.

Guinea-fowl are fearless and are known to kill snakes in the wild. In this video they attack a poor terrified puppy.

BTW - they are delicious.

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From Fred Thompson's blog, Fred08 on November 26th, 2007:

More Praise for Fred’s Tax Relief Plan - Patrick Joubert Conlon at Born Again Redneck called the plan, “music to a businessman’s ears.”

C.D. Jewell,

Liberalstein,

"This blog interested me first because of the title. But the quality of Patrick Joubert Conlon's writing has kept me coming back. His style is not presumptuous or pompous or condescending; it's plain and simple. Good old American English. Which is funny because Mr. Conlon was born and lived in South Africa for his first twenty one years and after that spent eight years in England before finding his home here in the U. S. His blog provides a rare outsider/insider perspective on the U. S. of A. He's been linked to by CNN on a couple of occasions and one of his posts was cited by the official Fred08 website. He does a lot of politics but also some lighter fare as well. He frequently posts spectacular photos taken on his Oregon farm."