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My experiment got interrupted twice. First running off my success integrating six week old quail with two week old ones I assumed that the eight week old quail will be ok with a week old ones. It was a mistake. The two months old ones pecked and bullied the week old ones. So I opened the...

I’m running a free range experiment with bob white quails. I got 18 in April. Then ordered another 30 in May when six of the 18 died. The first quail were spooked by the little ones, so I put the April hatch into an old chicken trailer with a heat lamp in my back yard. After they hung there for...

The birds getting to know their new space (:

I just now dropped them off at a farm in Riverhead. Thank you!

I have 7 guineas and they were fine with the kids. We had them for a year and no issues with aggression towards humans. They will roam, they need to be trained for a coop - we had a long ordeal with them - started with 18 keets, got 14 to 6 weeks and then lost half of them over the summer...

We have an eight foot black deer-fencing that curves in at the last foot. It is also reinforced at the bottom with chicken wire - rabbits chew through the plastic fencing and the guineas used to find a hole and escape. This contraption prevented the guinea flying over the fence, but they still...

Anyone here from NYC metro area and interested in adopting a flock of seven one year old guineas? I love them. My kids love them. We love how they cleaned out ticks from our property. Our challenge is two-fold. First, we can’t contain them on our 1/2 acre plot. We fenced it, they flew. We cut...

I found the coop training both easy and frustrating. I started letting them out of the coop at six week, they were 14. The first week I only let a couple at a time out for the second part of the day and kept all food only in the coop. The first time they all got to walk was nerve racking. They...

Good to know! I didn’t know that they would require a permit since they are native to my area. Thank you!

I have seven guineas - we originally got 18 in may 2021. Slowly over the first four months they disappeared - some fell to rats, others were killed by an unknown predator and others just vanished. The up-side of my flock is that the ticks are gone! No more daily checks and pulling of ticks off...

My guineas refuse to walk in the snow - they fly to the nearest bushes/shrubs and then cry for their mates. They only come down if I spread mulch or cardboard shreds on the floor. This winter I kept them in the coop when it snowed - I was worried that they will be eaten by owls if they sleep...