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Mine are 3 weeks old and just saw one on top of the feeder. Time to put a top on the brooder !!!
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We just ordered up 20 pearl guineas. They will be somewhat new to us, but we have chickens and ducks and hatch our own. The chickens have their coop, the ducks have their winter house and summer pen (for night time). I'm thinking once the ducks move out to their summer pen, the guineas once feathered out and old enough, can have the duck house, we will put a screen door on it so they can get acclimated, and also has a couple screened windows. I assume we need to put perches up, no problem, we have tons of nice skinny birch trees down from the winter. Any other advice you can give us? I assume they eat the starter feed, is it safe to feed them table scraps too and stale bread, or should we stay away from that? I know with ducks not to do that as it can swell up in their tummies, and we never had and they won't touch it anyway. Is there a particular treat I can train them to come to, peas work for the ducks, fresh or frozen corn for the chickens, what would the guineas like?
I hope to join into your little club here, sure I will be needing some advice. We have plenty of land, many acres for them, so no problem there, and lots of trees, but we have already pulled 2 ticks off the puppy, so we are very excited to have them join our family, as are the neighbors. Ticks are epidemic here after many years (Maine) of never seeing a one. Thank you all for any advice!
Also you might add that they are NOT sweet and gental. They are wilder than a March heir! My guineas (app 14 of them m) just ran the neighbors German shepherd back home! They think that your property is their property! They don't like strangers! I let mine out since they were 5 months old. I get them back in their coop at night by putting out feed for them in their coop. They come into eat, well almost all of them. There always has to be 2 of them that chase other around the coop for a while. They finally get tired and go in. They also like grasshoppers. I was worried about my cats getting them, not to worry. When the guineas got about 6 months old my cat tried to get one and the turned him every but loose! He doesn't bother them any more. I call them and they come to me. They mind me better than my peafowl do! That is why my peafowl are still in a coop!
I just joined this sight and just bought 7 guineas! Never had any chickens or birds before just feed all the wild ones. I decided to do this to try and combat the tick
population explosion. Our 5 year old granddaughter has already been diagnosed with Lyme's. My baby keets look just like yours in this picture I am not sure how
old they are and did not ask the people at the feed store where I bought them. So how old are these in your picture? We have them inside with the light in a wooden
box that is plenty big enough. Food and water of course. Just not sure how big they need to be before we move them out to the coop. I have to say too, so glad
I found this sight I have already read so much good advice! We are already considering some chickens or turkey's maybe?? We bought a huge coop and have 40 acres.
I am worried about the road though. I see them roaming the roads around here in front of peoples homes. I hate to think of one getting run over!
Congrats on getting keets! They are so much fun--and really not a lot of work once they are feathered out. I kept my keets for a month in a huge bathtub size plastic tub with a heat lamp inside. Towards the end I would take out during the day in a brooder box--almost like conditioning them to wind, outside temps, etc. My biggest concern with them is that they cross the road---seems like they do that no matter how many acres you have, and we have lost a couple to fast trucks. Still looking for the best way to stop them from doing the road crossings. :-(