84-Lancwtw Farming, Ssturdsy, August 7, 1993 Onbei a farm -And o hazar Joyce B For days. I’d tried to figure out what was causing that sound. It was just a quiet, little ticking, somewhat outside the front door. Periodically, I’d walk to the door, step out, and look around for some clue. A dry leaf stu ck in a cobweb, being bumped against some other object by the breeze was what it sounded like. While there were lots of dry leaves kicking around the porch, and a normal number of cobwebs strung in comers, the two hadn’t seemed to get together anywhere near there. So the mystery con tinued. Until I spotted the bees some days later. Not honey bees, not yellow jackets, but a couple of the little bees that folks around here refer to as “sweet bees” were busy work ing over the grapevine wreath on the door. Actually, they were working over the paper-twist wrap and bow on the wreath, chewing tiny holes in the cornhusk-like paper ribbon. 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If the bees stay busy as ....well, bees, the problem will solve itself. That’s just one of the slightly weird, perhaps hot~weather induced, behaviors of some of the critters lately around the farms tead. More irritating than intrigu ing has been the activity of our guinea hens. While none of us can tell male and female guinea fowl apart, they can. That’s obvious because a couple of guineas turned up behind the dairy barn recently Cowtown, NJ. with about 20 adorable, just hatched chicks running all about their feet. Tiny things, they look like pheasant chicks, beige colored with lots of darker brown Stripes. Next morning, the count was down to about 16. (They move constantly, so an accurate count is next to impossible.) By evening, more like 12. And by next day, none. How has such a no-brain spe cies managed to avoid extinction? These mo then go traipsing off through high grass and weeds, los ing chicks right and left in the foliage, making them easy pipk in’s for our plentiful predators. Frustrated at such a wanton loss of hatchlings (though we don’t need 20 more guineas!), I vowed to pen the next hatch if there was one. A day or so later, we spied another dozen or so tiny chicks, trying to stay together in the tall grass and weeds with a mother screeching her lungs out calling to them. But. you have to catch and pen them by darkness and by post evening chore time, the hen had long since sneaked off to nest somewhere for the night. And haven’t been seen since. Now, what would cause a cow to droop her jaw wide open and pitifully pant when you touch her .neck or face and then resume a perfectly normal stance as soon as your back is turned? Some cows do react to extreme heat in that manner, panting almost dog-like to relieve stress. But Bossy only does it when you’re working with her. Is it a sympathy ploy? 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