Guinea talk.

[Li.]

What is the appropriate age of keets to introduce my, no longer brooding hen, to each other? The keets are 6 weeks. The hen is a year old. These keets are not from her. I tried the look no touch approach for 2 weeks. She is still trying to hurt them.....but gets real upset when I’m handling the keets(at night when I’m putting them in). So....how and when.

 

[R2elk]

What is the appropriate age of keets to introduce my, no longer brooding hen, to each other? The keets are 6 weeks. The hen is a year old. These keets are not from her. I tried the look no touch approach for 2 weeks. She is still trying to hurt them.....but gets real upset when I’m handling the keets(at night when I’m putting them in). So....how and when.

As long as she is trying to hurt them it will not do any good to put them together. You may have to wait until they are mature enough to at least escape her.

 

[Li.]

Thanks for the response. Since my last post I’ve read to give it another month or because she suffered so much from losing the little flock she was raised with, that she my never accept them. So I’ll do the best I can to keep them separated for another month. And hopefully, have another(bigger) coop for them all. Any other input would be appreciated.

 

[jvls1942]

I once bought two different flocks of 10 .
they never did chum together.
after a couple of years there were 6 from one flock left, and 1 from the other flock. the single one tagged along with the 6, but kept her distance. that lasted for about two years.
I let my guineas free range. they are my tick patrol. I lose a lot to preds and traffic, but that is the price of having no ticks or ants.

 

[Li.]

I’m beginning to see that is a possibility. The free range is the route I’m going with these ones. But am training to roost in a new coop for the night when they are old enough. Thanks for your input.

 

[jvls1942]

even after they are coop trained, sometime will come when they will fly up into a tree. If they spend one night in a tree, they won't want to go into the coop again.

 

[Li.]

Lol. During the carnage episode I had that problem for 3 days. I finally got them down with food and water at the base of the tree. Yeah they do like them trees.

 

[Gdog Bossman]

After the murders, all my boys go to bed early. The killers (not sure who ate them) ate all my girls. Now I have six boys, no eggs. Need girls if anyone has any .

 

[guineapeeps]

After the murders, all my boys go to bed early. The killers (not sure who ate them) ate all my girls. Now I have six boys, no eggs. Need girls if anyone has any .

What area do you live in?

 

[Li.]

What area do you live in?

Northern MI