Did a strange animal ever turn up on your doorstep

[GalwayBird]

OMG, that is so sad...I really hope that no harm came to the poor thing!!

[jesse_3]

I was thinking a guinea fowl too...I have had a turkey escape from the turkey plant and end up under my dads pick-up truck top! I kept him for two days (it wasn't hot out) and I gave him food and water. i loved Mr. Gobbles! Unfortunately, my grandpa made the men who work at the turkey plant come and take Mr. Gobbler away

I hope that bird is okay, and he somehow for his way back home!!!
Steph, Splinter and my betta

[carolineg]

I was thinking a guinea fowl too...I have had a turkey escape from the turkey plant and end up under my dads pick-up truck top! I kept him for two days (it wasn't hot out) and I gave him food and water. i loved Mr. Gobbles! Unfortunately, my grandpa made the men who work at the turkey plant come and take Mr. Gobbler away

I hope that bird is okay, and he somehow for his way back home!!!
Steph, Splinter and my betta

I think maybe the photoshows him whiter than he was
He was kinda greywith little speckles

[GalwayBird]

Sorry Carolineg but from your photo, i see that you took it on Christmas day...maybe someone had a nice new years day meal???

[dab_20]

That is a Guinea Hen!! We have 6 of them. Must have escaped from a farm... the only place they are wild is Africa!

[Sophist]

Yep, a guinea fowl! Hope she made it home safely.

[king2005]

cool.

The strangest thing near our door step (well I was at my grandma in Verner, Ontario) was a BULL! ok it was grazing on all the neighbours lawns, but it was on ours aswell.. I ended up chasing him down into a a large vally. It was very steep & he was safer down there until the farmer came to get him.. only 50 feet away was a MAJOR HWY & transports always speed by & it would cause an aweful reck if one hit the poor bull or swerved to miss it.

Also later that day I had to bark at a herd of 50 cows!!!! in the middle of the road we were on.. We couldn't turn around as it was a 10km long road to the middle of nowhere hehe The cows were good & they got off the road & went into a neighbours garden *whistles & walks away* We drove to the nearest farm & asked if it was their cows, they pointed us in the correct direction & we alerted the farmer the loss of any livestock out there could bankrupt a farm, as its poor country out there, but great people

[carolineg]

A lot of people who saw him in the feathers suggested a guinea foul so you are probably right. I never saw one of them before - not even on a farm or in the zoo. How strange that he stayed like that in the area.