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  1. Joe Soslick

    Codependent Guineas?

    It took ours a few weeks before they would leave the perimeter of the house, and now they free range almost a 1/4 mile away during the day. They've also discovered the road out front! We have 18, so they are pretty brave as a group... but I could see a small group just going to the same place...
  2. Joe Soslick

    Dog run as coop?

    He definitely tangoed with some critter, ouch! I would keep those new keets locked up for several weeks/months and keep them happy, otherwise they may just wander off with ol' Pete. If you can get all of them in there together for a few weeks, I think that'd be ideal. Good luck!
  3. Joe Soslick

    Couple of Guinea questions

    12 weeks.
  4. Joe Soslick

    Why are my guineas becoming handicapped?

    Could they be getting attacked or somehow messed with during the night? Owls, for example?
  5. Joe Soslick

    Just installed Pullet-Shut auto solar door on the guinea coop!

    Thanks!
  6. Joe Soslick

    Just installed Pullet-Shut auto solar door on the guinea coop!

    I'm not entirely sure what time it opened this morning, but I would guess around 6am. Last night it closed around 9:15pm, and there haven't been any issues with birds getting caught outside (yet). They've learned (begrudgingly) to use the new door, and everything seems to be working just fine :)
  7. Joe Soslick

    Guess what showed up in the field today?

    LOL! SO MUCH POOP.
  8. Joe Soslick

    Just installed Pullet-Shut auto solar door on the guinea coop!

    Hi all, thought you might be interested in the automatic door I just installed on the guinea's coop. After some research, I decided this would be the best option for my setup and so far, so good. The door and materials are REALLY well made. Last night the door shut right around 9pm, and I'm...
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  9. Joe Soslick

    Best type of system for guinea's water

    Has anyone had success with using nipple feeders with guineas? I'm still using the cup-style waterers I posted above, but they constantly perch on top of the bucket and crap all inside the cups :(
  10. Joe Soslick

    So proud of my vicious little keets!

    I didn't know either, just learned that myself: http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/03/06/518219485/forbidding-forecast-for-lyme-disease-in-the-northeast
  11. Joe Soslick

    So proud of my vicious little keets!

    Cool, I hope mine eat mice! Mice are major carriers of ticks...
  12. Joe Soslick

    Help! Guineas have sores on their head.

    You have thoroughly covered your bases, very nice! Good luck with the newbies :)
  13. Joe Soslick

    Best type of system for guinea's water

    We started with one of these for the keets: and then I made a 5gal bucket when they were about 3 weeks old using these (due largely to the same issue, they were kicking pine chips into it and pooping in it): and they seemed to figure it out soon enough... I figure if they get thirsty enough...
  14. Joe Soslick

    Help! Guineas have sores on their head.

    Glad you got some revenge! Oddly enough, I took a shot at a possum about a week ago whom I saw wandering towards the coop right at twilight. Not sure if I got it, but I haven't seen it since. Ironically, I also learned that possums (or opossums?) eat loads of ticks... so I'm on the fence about...
  15. Joe Soslick

    Well today I started the release.....

    Cool! How do you get only a few out at a time? mine all run together, so I'm sort of thinking they might all run out at the same time... I also have 21 of them, so there's that.
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    Well today I started the release.....

    How's it going today? Have they all come back? Ours are currently 4 weeks, but I can tell they are itching to get out from their coop and start foraging... but I don't want them to all disappear!
  17. Joe Soslick

    Can you call guineas

    Wow, that's impressive. Since ours were keets, they've wanted nothing to do with us. They'd wiggle free from our hand and run off. We have 21, so I somewhat think they just prefer to be with their kind, and to be wary of us. They are just over 4 weeks old now, not sure if they'll change their...
  18. Joe Soslick

    New Guinea Fowl Keeper in Michigan

    Well, they actually came a day earlier than planned, so ideally we would have been prepared but that's life. The folks at TSC said these bins can raise 30 baby chickens, and we kept them in there for about 2 or 3 weeks. They're out in their coop now, and will probably be free ranging in two or...
  19. Joe Soslick

    Help! Guineas have sores on their head.

    Wow, that's really awful to hear, very sorry you lost your baby guineas :( That's unbelievable that the racoons could get them that easily through chicken wire... you can only hope the other few died trying to save their friend(s). If you were near me I would happily house your guinea, but I...
  20. Joe Soslick

    Help! Guineas have sores on their head.

    I found that part ironic as well! We got ours for ticks, horse flies, mosquitoes etc... but I'm thinking they might not start really munching on those critters until they are older and free ranging. Mine do the same in their coop, sort of fluttering about and smashing into the fencing--but not...
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