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Knock Knock And What Is That

belleswell

Active member
Our local turkey flock of about a dozen or so has a new addition. A guinea fowl hen. She probably decided to go on a walkabout when the turkeys showed up at her place. My guess is she came from someones farm within a mile or so. The toms all light up and put on their puffy shirts around her.

Since she has been running with them, she has become very bossy, and even herds them together if they get too far apart. The interaction between the turkeys and her has been very entertaining to watch. They show up a few times a day to clean up underneath our bird feeders. In the first vid, the turkeys come to the sliding door, see their reflection and start to bang the glass.(This has been going on daily for almost 2 months). The first time we heard them knocking, our 3 dogs were barking, but no one was at either door. I asked my wife if she had a load of laundry going as an unbalanced load will sometimes make some noise. Nope. Then we heard in again coming from downstairs.


When I went down the stairs and peeked around the corner, I saw them banging the door and could not stop laughing. Since then, when they are banging the door, I will sometimes gobble back at them when their doing this, and they get even more exited and bang the door harder. The guinea hen watches them, and if they get too carried away, she breaks up their fun.


Knock knock. I love the guinea hen busting up the ruckus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2GrsmQSnP4

Turkeys and Guineafowl hen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYstf6pSkGg

Fan Boys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXxZ4QEJT9Y

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grayeyes

Active member
Lol, I would sneak around behind them and use my pellet gun. Poof and bird down, the others wondering what happened to him?
 
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