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  1. MelindaAustin

    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...
  2. MelindaAustin

    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...
  3. MelindaAustin

    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...
  4. MelindaAustin

    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...
  5. MelindaAustin

    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...
  6. MelindaAustin

    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.
  7. MelindaAustin

    What do you put on the floor of a guinea coop, do we need to put anything?

    We're in the process of building a fly pen and making a storage building into a guinea coop. Do we need to put something, bedding or anything on the floor of the coop? Thanks so much.
  8. MelindaAustin

    Do you need nesting boxes in a quinea coop when they will be free ranging during the day?

    We're in the process of building a guinea run with a storage building for their coup and we're wondering how we should build up the coup for them. We're going to create place for them to roust but we're wondering if we need nesting boxes? They will free range during the day and be put up at...
  9. MelindaAustin

    When providing grit for guinea keets, do you leave some in a feeder to free feed on it, or just spri

    I keep reading about providing grit for guinea keets, but the only grit I could find was chick grit and the bag says not to give it to them until they're 4 weeks old, so we haven't been giving much of it. Our keets are about that age now so I'm wondering how we supply them with the grit...
  10. MelindaAustin

    How do you get keets to use a nipple waterer?

    We put a nipple waterer in our keets nursery along with the waterer they've had since we got them, but they still haven't used it. Is there something else we need to do to get them to start using it? We'd like to use nipple waterers in our guinea run and coop once we get it built. Thank you.
  11. MelindaAustin

    How hot is too hot for guinea keets?

    We recently moved our 4 week old keets out of a brooder into a nursery in our barn. They still have a heat lamp at night when it's in the high 60's, low 70's but we're having a couple days of 95 plus degree temperatures and high humidity and we're worried about them getting too hot. We did put...
  12. MelindaAustin

    Is it possible for guinea keets to get fully feathered before they're 6 weeks old?

    Our guinea keets are 3 weeks old and they already look like they're fully feathered. They seem to be growing fast and are trying to fly out of the brooder every time we get in there to change their water or add food.
  13. MelindaAustin

    How long do guinea keets need a heat lamp and can they come out of the brooder at that point?

    We got our 6 keets last week and they're already starting to get feathers. I'm wondering about how long they need the heat lamp and to be in the brooder. We are going to lower the temperature of the heat lamp tomorrow and every week. TIA
  14. MelindaAustin

    How old can you start giving guinea keet treats?

    I've seen a lot about millet, scratch (whatever that is), grass, dandelions but how old can you start feeding them these. With feeding grass, do you cut it up into smaller pieces for them, with dandelions, do feed the yellow flowers, cut them up? Thanks so much.
  15. MelindaAustin

    Do you have to have a Coop for guineas?

    We just got our first set of guineas (6) and we're wondering if we need an actual coop for them. We had a couple guineas adopt us for a while a few years ago, the hen even laid eggs and hatched 3 babies in our hedges but they just came and went from our barn. We didn't really feed or water...
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