These are guineafowl or guinea hens, in French they are "pintade", but with my bad pronounciation and having never seen the word written until I looked it up just now, I call them "paintards". Anyway, they are pretty common here. A friend saw that we had started keeping chickens and offered to give us a couple paintards to add to the coop. I asked JP if we could please politely refuse, and we did. These birds are creepy and annoying. They make an incessant irritating squawking noise. And I think they look like they just stepped off the page of some dinosaur book. Monday, January 2, 2012
dinosaur birds
These are guineafowl or guinea hens, in French they are "pintade", but with my bad pronounciation and having never seen the word written until I looked it up just now, I call them "paintards". Anyway, they are pretty common here. A friend saw that we had started keeping chickens and offered to give us a couple paintards to add to the coop. I asked JP if we could please politely refuse, and we did. These birds are creepy and annoying. They make an incessant irritating squawking noise. And I think they look like they just stepped off the page of some dinosaur book. 
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I heard if you have a tick problem guinnea hens will eat all of your ticks - so evidently they're handy to have around, at least in some areas. :)
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