Don't get me wrong, we love our guineas and can't wait until we have keets, but ours CONSTANTLY get "lost" on the other side of the cow fence, which is a regular 4" high fence with 6x6 squares that they could easily fit through or jump over.
They are all just about a year old, have started mating and laying eggs and live with our ducks and chickens in an enclosed house/pen. We let everyone out every day when we come home from work and they are out all day long on the weekends (we have a big predator problem and if we leave the doors open overnight or have no one home to create a bigger presence someone always disappears).
When everyone comes outside to play, the groups separate - ducks go to the stream, chickens head for the woods or gardens and guineas just roam around. Our back yard is not fenced, but our yard borders the cow pasture so we can see the girls (cows). The cow fence around the yard is very simple, your classic pasture fence, no barbed wire for obvious reasons in the yard, but in all other places the cow fence is just barbed wire.
When the guineas go out and roam they will often go into the cow pasture one way or another for bugs, and more often than not when it's dusk and everyone goes back into the house on their own I will hear at least one, if not more, frantic call for help because they can't figure out how to get back into the yard and just pace back and forth. Little do they realize that if they walked 10 ft more they would get to the end of the fence where the barbed wire starts and can just walk under the wire or they would hit a gate and could walk under the gate. I am forced to "walk" them to the closest opening, and if that opening is the gate they walk right past it! It gets pretty frustrating!
They are all just about a year old, have started mating and laying eggs and live with our ducks and chickens in an enclosed house/pen. We let everyone out every day when we come home from work and they are out all day long on the weekends (we have a big predator problem and if we leave the doors open overnight or have no one home to create a bigger presence someone always disappears).
When everyone comes outside to play, the groups separate - ducks go to the stream, chickens head for the woods or gardens and guineas just roam around. Our back yard is not fenced, but our yard borders the cow pasture so we can see the girls (cows). The cow fence around the yard is very simple, your classic pasture fence, no barbed wire for obvious reasons in the yard, but in all other places the cow fence is just barbed wire.
When the guineas go out and roam they will often go into the cow pasture one way or another for bugs, and more often than not when it's dusk and everyone goes back into the house on their own I will hear at least one, if not more, frantic call for help because they can't figure out how to get back into the yard and just pace back and forth. Little do they realize that if they walked 10 ft more they would get to the end of the fence where the barbed wire starts and can just walk under the wire or they would hit a gate and could walk under the gate. I am forced to "walk" them to the closest opening, and if that opening is the gate they walk right past it! It gets pretty frustrating!
