Anyone have any idea what these are? – Wisconsin Geocaching Association

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06/02/2008 at 10:25 pm #1726625
SammyClaws
As a member of PETA (people eating tastey animals) I am alway on the prowl for something new and exotic. Coming back from Rock n Roll by the numbers a while back we found these two nesting by the side of the road. They seemed fairly comfortable with the cars going past and only got startled when we got out to take a picture. I could not find them in the north american bird book. Can anyone identify these guys?
06/02/2008 at 10:41 pm #1889924
Team Black-Cat
I think they’re related to this guy.
06/02/2008 at 10:54 pm #1889925
bnb
They don’t look like the wild turkeys in my yard. I think they look like guinea hens.
06/02/2008 at 10:57 pm #1889926
Trekkin and Birdin
I think bnb is probably correct. Escaped domestics, perhaps.
06/02/2008 at 11:24 pm #1889927
WI_Robin
Definetly guinea hens – a pearl and a slate (I believe). They are like gaurd dogs of the hen house – I once had about 6 of them chase an opossum out of the yard. They raise a horrible ruckus if anyone or anything strange comes around. I have heard they will even attack snakes.
06/03/2008 at 12:05 am #1889928
emtcop
they also eat wood and deer ticks so people are starting to get them to try to keep the tick count down
06/03/2008 at 1:15 am #1889929
SammyClaws
I have hunted enough to know they were not turkeys. And other than being camped out by the side of the road they did act domesticated (interested in you but you couldnt get close enough to touch one). The odd thing is that there weren’t any farms within 3 miles of where we saw them. We joked that they were bleached peacocks 😆

thanks to all, as I have something to research now.
06/03/2008 at 1:34 am #1889930
Ratz and company
guinea hens… Very loud noisemakers….. sleep in trees…… fun
06/03/2008 at 2:13 am #1889931
greyhounder
just want to add my, yup guinea hens.

Bec
06/03/2008 at 2:19 am #1889932
Team Black-Cat
After looking a little closer, I stand corrected.
(But they MIGHT be related.)
06/03/2008 at 2:34 am #1889933
Team Hemisphere Dancer
I hear they taste like eagle.
06/03/2008 at 3:51 am #1889934
labrat_wr
@Team Hemisphere Dancer wrote:

I hear they taste like eagle.

maybe taste more like Spotted Owl ( 😯 I didn’t say that did I?? 😯 )

Disclaimer : Always answering to a higher power.
06/03/2008 at 1:31 pm #1889935
Mathman
@SammyClaws wrote:

Can anyone identify these guys?

I am going to go out on a limb here and guess that these are birds. Mind you I am not expert but if I were a betting man, I would say Birds.
06/03/2008 at 1:34 pm #1889936
Doc.
Hey, Nerlman! Lucky!!!! What are you guys doing on my computer???? That’s what two of my three Guinea Roosters look like – ….so when you hear reference to my chicken boys – that’s them! Good little watch dogs and quieter than peacocks. Oprah says they’re good eatin’. European delicacy – but then so is horsemeat, and they eat snails! ( shhh, I love good escargot, tho!) After eating the free range amish chickens, I don’t think the guineas would taste that good. The dark meat would be pretty gamey and stringy – man can they run fast! They look like roadrunners when they start the chasing game around the yard.
06/03/2008 at 2:10 pm #1889937
SammyClaws
I found it very interesting that when I did a search on Yahoo, 3 websites listed contained information about Guinea Hens, and information about their history and raising them. HOWEVER the next 10 websites contained recipes for cooking them.

@labrat_wr wrote:

@Team Hemisphere Dancer wrote:

I hear they taste like eagle.

maybe taste more like Spotted Owl ( 😯 I didn’t say that did I?? 😯 )

Neither, they tasted more like Whooping Crane….
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