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On my way out to shut the coop up for the night I found one Guinea stuck in the kids yard. It took me three tries, but I finally cornered it, picked it up, and deposited it in the coop. You would think it would be grateful, but all I got was a bunch of chi-chi's as I chased it around. I think...

Thank you for the inquiry, SunHwaKwon ! I know I have been remiss in updating, but non-guinea fowl life has been busy and the guineas have, but for two incidents, been well-behaved. In fact, I even took some pics of the guineas on Christmas Eve Day to post on here, but never got around to it...

You are so right about the NASCAR drivers! I haven't noticed the flock hanging around the road, but I am considering putting up a couple of Guinea crossing signs. :)

Still holding strong at 12 Guineas! We have some construction going on in the yard, so I had to unplug the auto light to the coop for a few days. Almost every night I had to go out and shake one or two Guineas out of the trees and escort them into the coop. Two were so high up I had to get my...

Really sad news today. One of my lavs was hit by a car on my road this morning. Now I am down to 12. It's not like losing a dog. Heck, I can't really tell one lav from the next, but it's still takes the wind out of your sails for a little while. My road is not busy, but there is a little...

Don't feel bad if you can't find them locally. I was hooked up with a local person I found on this message well in advance of Early summer to get 18 day old keets. Turned out her Guineas weren't laying when she thought they would (possibly due to our wet weather this year), and she recommended I...

My coop power is nothing to be jealous of! :) It's just three extension cords plugged together running through my yard from the outside garage outlet, through the coop window and duct taped to the coop ceiling. Lol! It starts getting dark here around 5:30 pm. I can see the birds starting to...

Thank you! :) I started with an order of 18 from the hatchery and 5 were DOA. They tried to reship and still DOA. I figured I would lose some to shrinkage, but didn't think it would be so soon. I read that 8-12 is a good minimum number to have since to maintain good group dynamics in their...

I think the age depends on how cold it is and if you can provide a heat lamp for extra heat out in the coop. I moved mine out at 5 weeks, which was way too long inside the brooder in my house, but my coop wasn't ready. If I do babies again I will be moving them out at 2 weeks with a heat lamp if...

No guineas were roosting in the trees tonight when I went out to shut the coop up around 7:30 pm. I think setting the coop light timer to come on at 5:30 pm worked! :)

So the past two nights I have had to get one or a few guineas out of the trees near the coop. This has never been an issue. I think the coop light needs to come on earlier since it is getting darker sooner here. It's set to go on at 5:30 pm and hopefully that will fix this problem. :)

I hoped to get the nipple water system working for the same reasons as you. This was my dad's idea...still untested for winter. He attached 4 nipples (that I bought at Tractor Supply in a four pack) evenly spaced on the bottom of a 2.5 gallon bucket. Then he cut a hole in the bottom of a 5...

My guineas are 4 months old! They have been doing well putting themselves to bed every night after free-ranging all day. The sqwalking noise has slightly decreased, but I think that's because they spend most of their time wandering around the place. When I am out in the yard they stay in my...

Well we have a 2 acre yard area around the house. It's like a rectangle. One long side runs along the road (which is not busy) with a tree/bush boundary, the other long side backs up to our woods, one short side has a tree/bush boundary that separates us from our neighbor, and the other short...

These past two days the guineas have been no where to be seen during the day, but appear as if by magic around 5:30 pm near their coop! They make the rounds of the yard, and by 7 pm are all roosting in the coop. Both days my mom felt obligated to give me the "You Did Your Best" talk, but I...

I think green with white trim will look lovely! Green is my favorite color! You're not kidding about the cost! The price of the birds is nothing compared to all the rest!

The guineas are now a little over 3 months old and have been free ranging for about 2 weeks. Things have settled down a lot since free ranging began, so I haven't had much to post. They have been going to bed every night without fail. The biggest news is that my dad took Big Fat Rooster to...

I thought I would be running around rounding them up, too. But somehow their bird brains seem to know when to go to bed. These past two days they have been in and out of the coop. Yesterday they spent the whole afternoon in the coop only coming out around 4 pm.

Free Range Diaries: Day 5 Nothing to report! Let the birds out around 7 am. Saw them on my side of the road briefly. Then they spent the rest of the day working around the coop or in the yard. Everyone was roosting happily when I went out to shut the bird door at 7:30 pm.

Free Ranging Diaries: Day 4 Just when I think the guineas have nothing left in their arsineal, here they go surprising me once again. Today was overcast and raining until about 4 pm when it turned beautiful and sunny. I open the bird door as usual and the gang hops out one by one. They peck...