Using guinea fowl as watch dogs

pheasants4ever · Dec 28, 2014

Hello all,
I have been raisng pheasants now for a while but have had very big problems with all kinds of predators being attracted to my flight pen.
So my quewstion is this,
Can i put some guinea fowl with my pheasants to alert me at night when an unwelcome predator is snooping around my pen? I know guineas are excellent watch dogs in the daylight but what about after dark?

red horse ranch · Dec 29, 2014

Guineas are pretty much blind at night and are very vulnerable to predators when it's dark.
They will alert you to problems thru the day tho.

pheasants4ever · Dec 29, 2014

I think i will try it out, a big group of pheasants tends to attract the attention of every predator in the county it seems like. . . so even if they only call in the daytime it would still help out

GuineaFowling · Dec 29, 2014

In my experience, if something is amiss in the guineacoop the guineas wont hesitate from screaming their butts off in complete darkness. I had to run out several times in the middle of the night, sometimes I couldnt even find anything in the coop which led me to suspect it might have been a lizard or mouse coming for the food. They sure will let you know if something is getting them but if its just a predator coming to watch them then they wont be able to see it and will stay silent unless they hear it.

All the best of luck to you.

pheasants4ever · Dec 30, 2014

Haha that was just the answer i was looking for. I think this might be a good use of a couple of guineas

Mellysa134 · Feb 1, 2015

I love my guinea. I had two but a fox got my male when he was sleeping. I am getting 6 more this spring. I absolutely love them.

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