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    Guinea limping

    Thank you for asking. She seemed well enough yesterday that I released her when the gang of guineas came by for their morning mealworms. Immediately I could see she was less than 100%. I watched her sorta slink around listing slightly on the side of the injured leg. Then she went away from the...
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    Guinea limping

    I am thinking that is probably what happened but others have suggested I keep her quiet for a day or two. I wish I had a good way to add some heat to her little outdoor coop.
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    Guinea limping

    I have a small young female who showed up yesterday with a very noticeable limp. She is not the object of bullying in her flock but she sometimes roosts in with turkeys. I corralled her and have checked her leg and foot for any irregularities and I see nothing. No breaks, abrasions, sores, no...
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    Older flock and younger female

    I think you are spending exactly the right amount of time observing behavior! Lord knows I’m spending an inordinate amount of time myself. As for flying onto things, this girl’s brothers and sisters (live elsewhere because they persecuted her) flew up onto the roof of the house and then into a...
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    Older flock and younger female

    I am concerned myself about the hazards of roosting in trees. I am also concerned she will wander away from the flock and no one will pay attention, then she’ll get lost. So I am taking it slow. Today she went out twice with the flock and did a little tour of the area around her living quarters...
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    Older flock and younger female

    They are hostile towards the others. Yesterday one of the males from the communal adult flock sat for an hour by her coop and when I noticed his determination, I let her out. They moseyed around a bit and then quietly went into her coop (which is small) together and shared her food with no...
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    Older flock and younger female

    It is not the aggression of her brothers and sisters that I am interested in, it is the strange lack of aggression from the members of the communal flock—that they follow her around the yard in a kind of solicitous fashion. They have had time to get acquainted through the wire of her run is all...
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    Older flock and younger female

    I have five 5 1/2 month old Guineas. Four of these birds persecuted one female so I separated her out into a coop of her own. There is a flock of adult birds that resides part time at my place and part time at a neighbors. They come several times a day and collect around her coop. When I release...
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    Once again—integrating birds

    I have some more younger babies living in my house now. (Our place is their choice for maternity ward). I had hoped to rehome them but now I‘m thinking the coop guys in the picture might need some backup. Maybe these can be part of the coop group and still get along with the wanderers. It is...
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    Once again—integrating birds

    Here are the adults and the adolescents at the coop in our courtyard. They‘ve been meeting like this for a month or so.
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    Once again—integrating birds

    Wow, brilliant. Do you have pictures? How old were your keets when you put them in their brooder into the coop? We’re you having to keep them warm? Rereading this I see that I left out that the older birds have been in some contact with the younger (five and a half months old) birds over the...
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    Once again—integrating birds

    I have a group of four adolescent guineas that I want to free range and to get along with a peripatetic flock of 10 guineas that roost at a neighbor’s but spend a lot of time at our place. some of these birds were raised by me, some by the neighbor so their history is complicated. We seem to be...
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    Too many birds

    Thank you. Is there a way to sort the posts by most recent date instead of what appears to be the oldest?
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    Too many birds

    Where is the Where are YOU section? I don’t find it.
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    Too many birds

    When we have left the keets with mom, they have perished. These birds do not go into a coop so they will be on the ground and not just vulnerable to weather but also to predators.
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