Despite my nightmares and worry last night, we found three adult guineas and a passel of keets this morning and successfully herded them into an empty stall in the barn.
So my latest question -- can anyone answer this? How do you count a moving mass of little bodies?? I have no idea whether we have 12 or 15 or 21 keets!
I ran into this same question with the recent hatch of chicks. I did take a photo and perhaps can count from looking at the picture. Yeah, I could do this with the keets as well. But we had a visitor here one year shortly after some keets hatched and she looked at the swarm and said, "Oh, look -- you have 27 keets."
How in the world could she look and count like that???
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I'm guessing you pick a number like 5 and see how 5 of them look bunched together, and each time you see a bunch that size, you add five.
I have no experience with birds. When you first wrote about guineas crossing the road, I imagined little guinea pigs scurrying along and immediately burst out laughing. I knew you meant guinea fowl, though. I had to look up the term "keets" to make sure I was understanding what I was reading. I hope everything turns out okay.
I love the image of a bunch of guinea pigs running around! And your adding idea -- I think that must be it. I found myself yesterday afternoon looking at the bunch and counting in 3s, and got a tentative total of 18 keets.
They are so cute. The adults are "pearls" -- grey with many small white dots. The keets though look like little chipmunks! Later they will grow their adult colored feathers.
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