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    What is the best way to combine a couple older chickens with guineas?

    We recently lost a laying chicken to a neighbor's dog. She technically belonged to another neighbor, but came to our house every day to hang out and laid an egg in our coop. I miss her and her eggs so we are thinking of taking 2 or 3 older chickens from another neighbor. We have a fly pen with a...
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    What is the best way to care for and keep guineas when you are expecting snow?

    Awesome this information in quite helpful. I am hesitant about letting them out of their fly pen for their first snow since they don't like change so much. Do you think they'd be okay for the next snow, or should we plan on leaving them in for the next one too. I do remember the last time it...
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    What is the best way to care for and keep guineas when you are expecting snow?

    We are expecting rain, snow and ice on the night of Thanksgiving and for a few days and I would like to know what the best way would be to take care of our guineas. I remember seeing something about alfalfa in a hay net for when they don't free range, but I don't remember the rules about it...
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    Do guineas leave when the others are picking on them?

    Thank you, we have searched for her, but maybe should do another search. I thought maybe she could have gotten locked up in the neighbor's shed, but we didn't find her. There are some dogs from a few streets that get out a lot and they may have gotten her. What do you do about that kind of...
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    Do guineas leave when the others are picking on them?

    We got 6 keets in mid June, I believe 4 males and 2 females, they are our first fowls of any kind. We raised them in a brooder, moved them to a nursery and then into a fly pen with a coop. We trained them to come home at dusk to a whistle so they could be put up in the fly pen for the night...
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    Do you need nesting boxes in a quinea coop when they will be free ranging during the day?

    Huh, interesting. I know when 3 guineas mysteriously showed up at our home a few years ago, one of them laid eggs in our hedges, I think over 20, she ended up hatching 3 babies. She had lost one before our neighbor stole them from us and I don't know whatever happened to any of them.
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    Do you need nesting boxes in a quinea coop when they will be free ranging during the day?

    I think my husband said Russian weeds, broad leaf weeds. I had heard white vinegar for weeds, but never had luck with them.
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    Do you need nesting boxes in a quinea coop when they will be free ranging during the day?

    Wow, I do hear sometimes that guineas aren't good mothers, I guess sometimes that is true. We will have to keep our eyes open in their coop when it comes time.
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    Our guineas refuse to leave their fly pen, what can we do to make them?

    Yes, it is a guinea run. I guess I just thought that they naturally would want to free range. We do plan on taking the nursery out, we just need to do it on a day that they're not in there, we can shut it up so they can get into it. Thanks.
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    Our guineas refuse to leave their fly pen, what can we do to make them?

    We have guineas that we got as keets in June and they refuse to stop using their nursery and they refuse to leave their fly pen. We've left the door open to their fly pen the last 3 days and they hadn't left until we kind of shewed them out this afternoon and they just stay by it. Do we have...
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    How long does it take for young guineas to start using their new coop?

    Our's seemed to lose their desire for the mealworms, but maybe we'll try again. They seem to really like the white millet, we blow a whistle and they come right to the door of the fly pen.
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    How long does it take for young guineas to start using their new coop?

    You guys are great, thanks so much for all of the suggestions and help. We have been trying to give treats in the coop and then leaving them there, they seem to wander in but not stay. The training of them to come to a whistle has been coming along nicely though.
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    How long does it take for young guineas to start using their new coop?

    We have guineas that ar about 2 months old and we recently moved their nursery into a new fly pen with a new guinea coop. These are our only fowl. They use the fly pen but don't seem to be using the coop, they keep going back into the nursery. We've been leaving the nursery available because...
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    What size should a guinea coop door for them to enter into the coop?

    I'm sorry, but what's a "pop door"?
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    What size should a guinea coop door for them to enter into the coop?

    We recently moved our guineas to their new fly pen with a storage building for a coop with a small door for them to enter and exit. What size should this door be and do they need a ramp for it? Thanks so much.
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