Fermented barley and Guinea fowl

[Ashley_m]

Do your birds eat any real feed?
If it's just grains, that's a pretty poor diet fir chickens, let alone guineas.

My chickens get a ton of kitchen scraps… fresh fruit and veggies and meat.

 

[Ashley_m]

Do they get to free range? Where are you located?

In ca in the high desert.

 

[SmiYa0126]

How much meat are you feeding your flock?

 

[Ashley_m]

My chickens get a ton of kitchen scraps… fresh fruit and veggies and meat.

Plus they are in a 36 foot by 36foot enclosure and they do a lot of foraging in there. Now these are ready yet but I have mulberry trees growing near their yard so when it gets bigger they will have mulberries to eat also

 

[Ashley_m]

How much meat are you feeding your flock?

My chickens are getting roughly a 1/2 cup per bird. So about 7- 8 cups per day

 

[SmiYa0126]

Sounds well rounded! I think they'll be ok if they actually eat it.

 

[nuthatched]

My chickens get a ton of kitchen scraps… fresh fruit and veggies and meat.

Believe or not, that actually doesn't improve their diet much.
The grains are mostly carbs and fat and the fruits and veg are mostly sugars. And don't have many chicken accessible nutrients

 

[EddieSalita]

Game birds like guineas need more than scraps, grains and a small free range area. Guineas are much more insectivorous than chickens and quails.They make a gamebird feed for a reason. It's not just marketing hokum. Add that the guineas are very young.... it's just not enough imo.

I would argue that even 20% protien is inadequate for a non free ranging guinea. 36x36ft is not a huge area for that many birds. I wouldn't consider that free ranging.

Most gamebird feeds are around the 28% protien mark.

 

[Ashley_m]

Game birds like guineas need more than scraps, grains and a small free range area. Guineas are much more insectivorous than chickens and quails.They make a gamebird feed for a reason. It's not just marketing hokum. Add that the guineas are very young.... it's just not enough imo.

I would argue that even 20% protien is inadequate for a non free ranging guinea. 36x36ft is not a huge area for that many birds. I wouldn't consider that free ranging.

Most gamebird feeds are around the 28% protien mark.

That’s just my chickens in that area. The guineas will have 2 acres to roam after they are big enough where the don’t get picked off by predators. My chickens 13 hens and 2 Roos are In the 36x36. The guineas will be in a different coop with no fencing around the coop the only fencing they will deal with is my property fence.

 

[EddieSalita]

OK cool.

Your keets need gamebird feed at least while they are growing. If you can't get that a Turkey starter with protien of at least 24% preferably 28%.