This past year our guinea hens managed to hatch AND raise 7 baby guineas on their own, of which 5 survived. What follows are pics from all of 2011 and the last six just after our Feb 2012 snowstorm. For most of the past 12 years that we’ve had these “strange” martian-like birds, we’ve had to gather up the eggs; hatch them in an incubator; and raise them ourselves until they were old enough to release with the other guineas. I guess there’s a first time for everything, eh?