Show GUINEAS FAVOR FREE RANGE fowls fowl can be depended upon to pick up considerable portion of their food prepared by the united states slates department of 0 agriculture most guinea a n misers bisers allow their theft breeding stac stock k free range of tho the entire endre farm at all times and this helps to keep the lie bi birds r it s strong and vigorous Ig orous inuring the winter inter die breeder bre eders s should have been f fed ed a grain mixture of if corn wheat and tots oats twice a day and where no green f feed eed was available vegetables such as potatoes turnips beels and cabbage animal feed Is essential to best results and can be supplied hy by feeding meat scrap or skimmed milk given free range where here the supply of natural feed during the winter and early spring are ample as it usually Is in the southern pot portion of the united states the guineas can can do be luft to pick up a considerable part of their feed say poultry specialists of the united states department of agriculture free access to grit charcoal and oyster shell is 3 necessary throughout the breeding season avoid having the breeders bleeders bre eders too fat but keep them to in good firm flesh like quail and roost most other wild biris bir Is guinea fowls fouls in their wild state mate in pairs and this tendency prevails tinong domesticated domes guineas also pro tided sided the males and females are equal in hi number As the breeding season approaches one pair after another separates abates from the remainder ot of alie flock ilind and ranges in the fields in search of f n suitable nesting place once mated this tiny nay the male usually remains with milli his mate throughout the laying season stand standing ng guard somewhere near the nest while the hen ben la Is laying and ready to warn her of any approaching ng danger inowe homeier Ho weier ter 1 it t Is not necessary to mate them hem in pairs under domestic conditions to secure fertile eggs and most breeders bleeders bre eders keep but one male for every grce or tour four bem fem eanes em nes ea when mated in allus his ausy the hens are mure more apt to lay vear liehr home wid several usually lay III hi the same nest thus making it much aas faster er to find the nests and gather the ts while guineas can call be kept in the liet belt lie t breeding condition upon free 7 1 0 ell t L at Z guineas can be Colo fined if necessary but they do best when given free range tange ange still they can be confined if necessary sec ec essary and satisfactory results obtained b one extensive guinea ralser has confined as many as 43 liens hens and 15 males in an acre pen throng throughout hout the hie breeding and laying reason and been successful tills this pen Is with a wire ire fence five feet high and the birds are prevented from flying over by clipping the flight feathers athera te of one WD ang within the pen Is a grass pas ture with bushes here and there where the hens make their nests nesta by scratch ing out a bowl shaped hollow in oil ground the winters being severe a ro shed Is provided ha having ing a board reaching from fiona the floor to the roosts boosts for the wing clipped bird bardt 0 walk up ap |