For all the work of raising these guineas over 3 months I would caution you they are NOT SMART. I did every good thing I read about for them. they were cooped for 2 months and a half. they were given plenty of millet seed to make them come home to roost. when they wouldn't come back into the coop I even put a small flashlight inside as I had read. Guineas are not very bright. They ran all over at dusk. I netted 2 back into the coop. When I tried to catch more, they ran under the barbed wire fence out into the pasture. Around 10 pm the coyotes made dinner out of five!