do your guineas hiss at you at night?

[guinea fowl galore]

Ours roost on our veranda rail so we get them hiss at us every night. If you get too close to them they try to get you too. It's kinda funny and cute to watch but it scares me when I forget they're there.

 

[Nyxish]

Penny - my hurt guinea who has to deal with being handled on a regular basis kind of "Huff!"s at me and displays to make herself look bigger. Pipkin and Luke just complain and/or freak the he** out if i try and touch them in the coop after dark. sigh.


i don't know about others, but at the very least, Pipkin has got to be dumber then a rock, i don't care how different then other fowl they are, Pipkin is not very smart. Luke is a bit better, but still prone to hysterics for no reason.

 

[Finn's Mom]

Guineas are not dumb. They lack reason, surely, and common sense, but ours have learned to discern between the car to greet and the car to fear, who to follow and from whom to run (follow my kids, my lab and my old cairn -- I swear they act like an squad escort for the old guy -- run from UPS dude, random children, my setter.) They always come to say hey when I come home and i just noticed this evening that one of my boys has learned how to de-stink a stink bug. (gold!) Tonight my crew went to bed in their dedicated coop by themselves . . . Some over the fence and some the long way thru two gates and around several corners having been herded and then following me these last few months. They are just 6 months old and we took it slow with a them enduring mocking by my hard core chicken owner but well-meaning neighbor (whose guineas of the same Age have long since disappeared.). I thought I was doing something wrong but patience has paid off. I can't say we are experts, but my goobies have all survived baby-hood and seem to comprehend their safe place. It's a good start and we adore them.

 

[CalBickieMomma]

I have one at the moment (11 weeks old) with my chickens. She/he will give a soft 'hiss' sound at night (like she/he is puffing out a quick breath) when I go into the coop with a flashlight. Their roost is lowish - just under 6' off the ground. I always assumed it was because my Guinea couldn't actually see me. I still think she/he finds another creature in the coop at night nerve-wracking. I'll talk to her/him and give pets, and sometimes she/he will peck at me. Not hard pecks, just enough to encourage the creepy non-bird thing to get off her/him, probably .

 

[blackfishfin]

So last night I went to close the guinea coop. I kept hearing a soft but mean noise. I looked up and my guineas were hissing at me! They don't do this during the day. Are mine the only ones that do this?

I have never had my guineas hiss, but they definitely will peck at my hand if I try and go near them at night. I can touch them during the day, but not at night. I think they're just so stupid that they don't recognize me in the dark.