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Personally, I would worry every time I fed if I knowingly didn't feed the higher protien. They need more protien, go with game bird starter. It's a few dollars more, but for my worrying nature and my sanity I'll spend it! Ours do wander into the chicken coop and eat layer crumbles and starter/grower, but I feed game bird every morning. Personally, I feel it's important for them to have the extra protien.
My guineas won't touch scraps like the chickens will. They won't eat oats or yogurt or table scraps. They do love them some scratch and cracked corn, but that's about as far as they go with feed.
Our guineas quit going back to the coop after they'd been here about 2 months. Now they roost at the very tops of the trees, incredibly high. You can't even see them. In the winter they roost in the tall cedar trees at night. We had a couple of blizzards here this past winter and we tried and tried to get them back into the coop but they weren't having it
We caught a couple with a fishing net and got them in the coop, but never the others. They rode out snowstorms in the cedar trees and survived. Goobers!
Females have a 2 syllable call, males have a 1 syllable. Just got sit outside with them for an hour or so, it's fairly easy to distinguish between the two.
Personally, I would worry every time I fed if I knowingly didn't feed the higher protien. They need more protien, go with game bird starter. It's a few dollars more, but for my worrying nature and my sanity I'll spend it! Ours do wander into the chicken coop and eat layer crumbles and starter/grower, but I feed game bird every morning. Personally, I feel it's important for them to have the extra protien.
My guineas won't touch scraps like the chickens will. They won't eat oats or yogurt or table scraps. They do love them some scratch and cracked corn, but that's about as far as they go with feed.
Our guineas quit going back to the coop after they'd been here about 2 months. Now they roost at the very tops of the trees, incredibly high. You can't even see them. In the winter they roost in the tall cedar trees at night. We had a couple of blizzards here this past winter and we tried and tried to get them back into the coop but they weren't having it
Females have a 2 syllable call, males have a 1 syllable. Just got sit outside with them for an hour or so, it's fairly easy to distinguish between the two.
