I have seven guinea fowl (mixed male/female and colors: white, lavender, pearl) that I raised from keets last summer. I love the crazy birds, but despite our large acreage they insist on ranging to the neighboring housing development. We tried fencing, but they fly over. Thought about clipping their wings, but they are nearly impossible to catch and I have watched them walk right down the driveway and cross the road, so they will still range if they can't fly. They roost at night with the chickens, but keeping them penned with the clucks defeats the tick-control purpose. Now our neighbors are complaining bitterly about the guineas making noise and eating all their songbird feed. Sadly, my crazy birds have to go.
I'm hopeful that someone local will have the space and heart to take them. They are skittish, but they all do come in to roost in the barn so capture at night would be fairly easy. If they don't find a good home I fear the neighbor's threats to shoot them will come to pass.
We are in south-central NH, near Concord.
I'm hopeful that someone local will have the space and heart to take them. They are skittish, but they all do come in to roost in the barn so capture at night would be fairly easy. If they don't find a good home I fear the neighbor's threats to shoot them will come to pass.
We are in south-central NH, near Concord.