Can You Clip Your Guineas Wings?

[aaronzclark]

So I have just put up a 4 foot fence for my mini goats chickens and ducks I will have to clip my ducks wings and chickens for sure can I clip my guineas wings to last couple times I had guineas they got gone(of course I got them as adults LOL) what you think?

 

[Struttn1]

Clipping wings makes it a lot handier for the foxes and coyotes.

 

[aaronzclark]

we are getting a Great Pyrenees

 

[monarc23]

my ducks, and coturnix wings are clipped and Im pretty sure iim going to clip my guineas wings too

my chickens arent clipped because the marans are in a fully enclosed fight pen, and the others are way too heavy to fly

 

[Msrhrjr]

We have a pair of guineas and we clipped but they are enclosed at night with the chicks

 

[Jen4]

We are thinking about clipping our guinea's wings too when they are older (they are only 5 weeks and in our chicken coop, they havent figured out how to get out of the coop yet and into the run). I plan on them staying in the chicken run/coop with our chickens..........

 

[Irish Luck]

I have a Great Pyranees dog, about 130 lbs. He is wonderful with the animals on the farm. Quiet and gentle with the horses and actually plays with my chickens and guineas. Large enough to intimidate the heck out of predators (we have coyotes and stray dogs) and people predators don't like him either. He is hardly ever more than 10 feet away from my horses. The cats walk over him (literally) and the guineas peck at bugs under his watchful eye. Sweetest gentle giant I have ever known. Except for managing his coat, you'll never regret getting a Py! Good luck.

 

[RingedTeal]

Clipping a guineas wings don't help they can still fly mine still go 20 ft. up a tree and thier wings are clipped.

 

[philter4]

I have domestic and vulturine guineas and I clip the wings of the domestic guinea fowl (the vulturine are kept in a covered pen) with no problems. While it is true they can still fly, they don't fly as well and if there is ever danger they can get out of the way. I put all of my animals inside a barn at night because I live in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains near Lake Tahoe and there are foxes, bobcats, coyotes, mountain lions and I just had a bear come through the property on Monday so it is important that during the daylight when they free range they can get out of the way of any predators who might come by but it keeps them from getting out of the yard. I clip the wings a couple of times a year, usually when they start getting up onto the roof of the house or barn it is time to clip them again!