Recent content by Waldomtnman

First to get the small one assimilated put it in a smaller pen with its own food and water and put that pen inside the large pen with the adults, leave it for a week and then open the door enough for the little one to get in/out but not enough for the larger birds to get in. Now let me clarify...

P.S. I collect my hens eggs and incubate them to sell the young every summer, right now I have about two hundred from baby keets to 12/14 weeks old in addition to the orginal twenty so I get to hear a lot of noise around here. There is about three incubators still going and the hens are just...

When they are young (first year to two) the noise will be more noticeable as any young they are finding their voices, it is good there is a lot of Potracking which means you have multiple hens and not all boys. They will mellow out some but their nature is a noisy one most of the time. They...

I raise several hundred guinea keets every year, I have about five or six hens and ten males and they all get along great. I collect all their eggs and keep four incubators going all summer hatching about ten days apart. The hatchlings go into a box with food and water covered with a 40 watt...

The females will start making a sound that sounds like potrack, potrack or some people call it buckwheat, buckwheat when they are about six weeks old and soon this will fill the air, they all make a lot of noise anytime something out of the ordinary disturbs their normal routine or when they are...

Keep them in the home pen for the first six weeks and then make sure you herd them back into the pen every evening before dusk until they get the idea. If you let them out sooner they will go wild on you and either take off or just do as they please until the varmints get them.

If you allow them to start roosting outside the coop they will not survive long, Owls love Guinea's and will kill them just for sport. I was late coming home one night when I had started letting a new batch out of their coop and they had roosted in the trees above the coop, well I found an Owl...

The keets can start flying at around four weeks but not get really good at it until eight. You should keep new keets in pen for at least six weeks so they will learn where home is otherwise they will go wild and start roosting in nearby trees. This is when they become venerable to predators...