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Since you just moved them I would wait a couple of weeks before letting any out. When I did my new group, I let them all out while I stayed and watched them and then herded them in when I needed to do something else. When I was adding more later, I would pen them separate from the others in...

You can learn a lot about guineas from reading the early years of this thread and paying particular attention to posts made by @PeepsCA.

There is a lot of bad information on the Internet. Guineas aren't creatures of the woods. They will stick around if you feed, water and provide a safe coop for them at night. It is another misconception that guineas will protect other poultry since they aren't that good about protecting...

The best thing you can do is to keep the guineas and chickens separately. Imprinting removes the guineas ability to understand that chicken are not guineas. When that happens, the guineas treat the chickens the same way they would treat each other. Guineas have entirely different instincts...

Probably a different light color. If the center stripe is solid, they will be fully dotted. If it is squiggly lines instead of a solid stripe, they will be partially dotted.

Don't keep them with the chickens. Partially feathered should be okay with 85°F measured at the bedding level. If they are on wood chips, they need to have appropriately sized grit available. They can and will eat the shavings but cannot digest them without grit in their system. Read the...

With a few detours.

Guineas are a flock bird. To have good flock dynamics there needs to be enough of them for proper interaction and to help prevent a single one from constantly being picked on. Guineas especially the keets need to be dry. Ducks don't tend to provide a dry environment. People that haven't had...

I never recommend fewer than 10 although some seem to be able to do okay with 6. I do not recommend housing guineas with ant birds that are not guineas.

I don't recommend having just a couple of guineas. They are a flock bird and do best in large groups of their own kind.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/unofficial-byc-other-fowl-molt-contest.1415124/

I would rather deal with the snow.

They weren't happy. The snow completely buried their nest. Poor things had to lay their eggs in the coop.

My two month old that had never seen snow before is doing fine. As long as they are fully feathered and have been acclimated to the ambient temperature, I don't worry about it. It does help to have a draft free place for the night for them. Guineas in the background from Tuesday.

Cold stuff isn't coming early. It is already here. My garden is done after 28°F this morning that followed 4 3/8" of snow blanketing it Monday night.

The lysine and methionine levels are also lower. If one can't find a proper grower (usually about 24% protein), a high quality chick starter can be substituted.

Brewer's yeast or vitamin B complex in the water. It is a concern with keets, poults and game birds. It's the lysine and methionine that can be problematic supplementing.

The ones that have the niacin not listed have the information available if you contact the manufacturer. It isn't listed in most cases because the USDA did not make it a requirement to be included on the feed analysis. I don't remember exactly what it is but do know that the Purina 30% protein...

Check the lysine, methionine and niacin levels.

People that have only fed them chick starter say the same that you are saying. You have nothing to compare it against since you have never seen their development on a proper starter. Your guineas will likely not be as large as they were capable of becoming and will likely not live as long...