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Yeah I know they are markedly aggressive for such a small bird.

Of course. Thank you for your advice!

The guineas come first of course, late replies are just fine if ya have birds to care for. And we do have owls, and hawks. Thats why there will be netting over the runs.

Ive read that they tend to be like that. Ill raise them with a lot of coop time, but enough outside time that they don't get to attached.

Thought so! Still, I want my lists done and so far the only thing Ive been allowed to add is african geese, which is a little annoying. And yes, I figure putting food in the coop for the days before the move will encourage them to enter, wherein I can close them up and move them out.

Thank you! I posted a reply to him but it is apparently awaiting moderation. New members are a bit hamstrung on here. The gist of it was, though, that the tractor is not their home, just a unit to move them to the much larger (but still enclosed) runs, where they will spend the majority of...

I may have to increase the height of the tractor in that case, but I think you misunderstood. The tractor isn't going to be the run, just a unit to move them from run to run, which will be quite large and will have perches if they decide to roost outside. The tractor is a way I can move them all...

The plan would be to have a panel of dancing I could move aside, and push the coop against it and let them into the protected area, then when I needed to rotate their pasture I would move the coop at night when they were all closed up.

Yes, the coop would be relatively tall with a floor 3-4 feet above the ground, and the perches another 4-5 feet above that. Made up of 2X4s and thick plywood with meshed windows. The coop is more a mobile house than the run, which will be the garden and parts of the yard, fenced in well with...

I have none at the moment, so not yet. And yes, they are significantly wilder, much better at flying, less inclined to become friendly. Have to be captured and handled differently. I have read that they can be acclimated to dwelling in a coop though.

A mobile coop of some sort, like a chicken tractor.

Alright, so you'd have to rotate them to new pastures fairly regularly, depending on the size of the garden and the size of the flock?

If you built a huge, netted enclosure over your garden, could you keep these fellows in there free range for pest control?