Monday, August 1, 2011

Guinea herding, not for the faint of heart

Seth is certainly up to the task however. My guineas have a bad case of wanderlust lately and today I heard them over in the brush off the golf course. I don't want them to wander too far away since the main purpose in having them is keeping the ticks and bugs off MY property. I took Seth over there and we found them in the extremely dense brush and berry bushes. It is totally impassible for humans, barely passable for a dog and the guineas were hunkered down under all that growth.
This is what it looks like in there.





Seth went in and took them out almost 1 at a time. They'd fly up and went mostly behind Seth downhill, he'd patiently go and retrieve the one and put it up on the golf course, which is now overgrown grass and weeds. We had almost all of them out when one decided to be extra stupid. Guineas are not smart at the best of times, but this one decided to make a new record and flew up and ran way off into the woods beside my property. I called Seth back and said we'd find her later. We had all the rest and I just walked home and waited for Seth to bring them all over the hill and through the opening in the trees and bushes back to my yard. You can't rush guineas or they'll fly and Seth knows this so  he just slowly kept them tucked in together and slowly moving till they were home. I threw them some scratch feed to make home the better place to stay.


We went and tried to find the remaining one that took off into the woods, but even though Seth went in and searched around we could not find her. I finally heard her way off in the woods later on and the others called her back and she made her way back to her flock.

I really don't know what I am going to do when Seth is gone. None of my other dogs will even look at the guineas. And Seth just had surgery and was neutered at the same time only 11 days ago! He's dedicated, that's for sure. Good dog Seth!

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