I think of the sound of wind chimes, roosters crowing (a constant around here starting at 4:30 each morning), trucks on the highway, a passing train, hawks crying and the guinea fowl response.... song birds, Peanut barking as a buzzard flies over. Rusty yowling at 3 AM (darn cat).
I don't have the ability to make a video/audio recording and post it here. But, I do have the ability to search out other recordings that are very much like what it sounds like here.... and so, here's a sampling of some I found.
We have 5 roosters. Gus the Brahma Cochin, Hexter the Rhode Island Red, Henry the Rhode Island Red, Fred the Bantam and Splash the Bantam. And so we have a day-long crowing contest every day. Here's a picture.
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| Our chicken house |
It sounds something like this.
Morning chicken sounds
And of course, the hens have to get in on the act too. Hens make a specific sound when they are laying an egg.
Hens laying eggs
And when you feed the chickens, the roosters tell the hens where to find food. They make a very cool clucking sound and call their girls.
Rooster calling his hens
Our guineas are free range. We let them out in the morning and lock them up at night. I've written more about this before... Anyway, the guinea pair up. They mate for life. We have 4 pair, and 1 hen extra (Number 9). Here's a few pictures of them out wandering around.
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| Curly Joe and Vera |
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| Curly Joe, Bruce, hens and keets |
Here's a guinea flock with some keets.
Guinea hen with keets
(I've never let my keets out when they were this young, so I don't know how many they raised to adulthood. But the babies sure are cute!)
And what to guinea sound like when they are startled? Talk about an alarm system! Holy cow! These birds make noise!
Guinea fowl flight
Sometimes they come and look in to see what we're doing. Talk about nosey... geeze!
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| Who's in there??? |
Guinea fowl knock at the door
But, this guinea hen found her coop nice in the cold weather.
Gertrude sings "Let it snow"
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