Guineafowl

The view of our neighbor's guineafowl from our back yard

 One of our neighbors has chickens and guineafowl. Last week five young guineafowl escaped to our yard. The next morning Nancy and I decided we needed to get them back home, so with much effort we were able to corner them and throw them back over the fence. I knew guineafowl were noisy, but I didn't realize how dirty and smelly they were also. It was not fun.
During the week the young birds escaped to our garden a couple more times and we managed to return them. However, Sunday morning before leaving for church we noticed them in the yard again. We decided that we needed to speak with the owner, so after church we went to his house. We found him at home and between his broken English, our little Romanian, and sign language we were able to let him know about the escaped birds. He was so apologetic and said he had not had a chance to clip their wings yet. We caught the birds again, put them over the fence to the owner, and he clipped the wings immediately. Again, he apologized several times as we went back to the house, and we thought everything was fine. A few minutes later our bell rang and there was our neighbor with a bag of a dozen eggs which he gave to us with more apologies. I don't think we'll have a problem with the guineafowl any more.

The eggs are delicious