New Mother of Multiples

We've researched, prepared and waited. Finally, 9 Pearl Guinea keets arrived last week. WHY IN THE WORLD, you ask? Guinea fowl eat primarily insects. We have a pretty significant woods to the rear of our property which translates into plenty of deer ticks. These birds will free range on our land and in the trees (and likely at our nice neighbors too) and help us naturally rid the place of problematic bugs. We've purchased a dog house that the birds will roost in at night to protect them from preditors. The first few weeks of life require the keets to live in a box in our kitchen so that we can tame them as much as possible. Long term we want the birds to come to their house easily when called at bed time. We shall see how successful we are....
We had a little problem a few weeks ago when our original litter of keets arrived at the feed store and a German Shepherd came in and ate every one of them! Our dogs Arrow and Ed are watching our keets with that big-bad-wolf-licking-his-lips look. We are certain things will change as the birds grow and let the dogs know who is in charge. Pictured is one of the babies nesting in Sam's nest-worthy hair.