How do I find a lost guinea keet? Help!!!!

[CozyFanatic]

My two guinea keets are 17 days old and till today I kept them in a small wire cage and put them outside on the ground in another wire cage during the daytime. Today I put them in a larger wire frame, (although with still the small holes, just more ground space) and while mowing my yard, one of them, the smaller one, got out and I can't find it!
Does anyone have any idea how I can find it? I have lots of chickens, babies, hens and chicks, and grown chickens who free range in my yard. It's a large yard, like two acres. I have lots of bushes and hiding places along with a garage and chicken coop that is open during the day and I've looked and looked and I can't see or hear it!
So any help I can get would be so great. I just can't face the idea of my baby being outside by it's little self and it's getting like 3 hours from dark!

So, HELP HELP HELP!!!

Thanks!

Anne

 

[nchls school]

My two guinea keets are 17 days old and till today I kept them in a small wire cage and put them outside on the ground in another wire cage during the daytime.  Today I put them in a larger wire frame, (although with still the small holes, just more ground space) and while mowing my yard,  one of them, the smaller one, got out and I can't find it!
Does anyone have any idea how I can find it? I have lots of chickens, babies, hens and chicks, and grown chickens who free range in my yard.  It's a large yard, like two acres. I have lots of bushes and hiding places along with a garage and chicken coop that is open during the day and I've looked and looked and I can't see or hear it!
So any help I can get would be so great. I just can't face the idea of my baby being outside by it's little self and it's getting like 3 hours from dark!

So, HELP HELP HELP!!!

Thanks!

Anne

Check any hen that has chicks that may have been nearby. It would not have gone far on its own at 2 weeks + of age; not with a second keet near it. Do you have adult guineas the chick may have followed?

 

[CozyFanatic]

Nope, this is the first guinea keet that I hatched. The hens I have nearby have all their chicks and it's not with them! The other keet that I still have I am keeping in a cage with my baby peacock and an orphan baby bantam.
Just have no luck finding this one at all! I have looked the yard over and over and it seems to have just disappeared.
I have a lot of chickens....babies up to 2 years old...somewhere like 50 different ones, lol
Where in the world would it go? Just can't figure it out and I am about to have to give up on it!

 

[nchls school]

The keet probably started wandering and got lost; or it may have followed an older bird with the same results. After all this time the chick has probably perished as it is doubtful that it could survived on its own.

 

[CozyFanatic]

Yes, I'm sure the baby's gone now. I realize that in future I am going to guard these little ones more carefully. I still have the one and he/she is getting so big! Almost as large as the peacock and they are great friends!
I have 6 more guinea eggs ordered and 6 peacock eggs in my incubator already and hopefully I can soon have a flock of these darlings!
I just love these birds...they have such unique personalities and are so sweet!!!
Thanks for all the advice!

Anne