{"id":3254,"date":"2013-06-26T20:34:23","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T12:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=3254"},"modified":"2013-06-30T20:44:30","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T12:44:30","slug":"siren-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/26\/siren-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Siren Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130624-031.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3223\" alt=\"20130624 031\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130624-031-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130624-031-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130624-031.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The young guinea females are feeling broody and are calling for a man.\u00a0\u00a0 One in particular is always courting, she walks away from the rest of the flock and starts quietly calling \u201cmm-ca mm-ca\u201d,\u00a0 if he doesn&#8217;t follow, she ups the volume to \u201cinn-Ca\u00a0 inn-Ca\u201d and if that doesn&#8217;t work it is at full volume INN-KA INN-KA. \u00a0 The guineas generally pair bond for life and it is the females that choose their partner.\u00a0\u00a0 It is a bit noisy at the moment as the girls are all picking their vantage points and calling.\u00a0 One flies onto the roof of the water tank each morning and calls.\u00a0 I am not sure how many males we have as they chased a couple of young ones off when we first integrated the flock, so we may have a few lonely girls or they may share.\u00a0 Usually spare males form a bachelor flock, but I am not sure what happens when you have spare females. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2013-06-30-07.49.10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3274\" alt=\"2013-06-30 07.49.10\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2013-06-30-07.49.10-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2013-06-30-07.49.10-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2013-06-30-07.49.10.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> A couple of our first birds had formed a pair bond and <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/25\/together-in-life-and-death\/\">died together<\/a> which was quite moving &#8211; one was killed by a fox and the other stayed by their side and died of heat stroke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The young guinea females are feeling broody and are calling for a man.\u00a0\u00a0 One in particular is always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guinea-fowl","category-property"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130624-031.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3254"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3298,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254\/revisions\/3298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}