I'm so proud, we have been raising baby keets for the past 2 months. This last month they have been living out in the coop & run with the pullets who are 3 months now. Lately, I've noticed that the guineas are muscling out the chickens for feed, taking food from their mouths and hogging the most popular roosts, in addition to their excitability and crazy flying all over the coop & run, which, upsets the chicks.
Two days ago, we had a bad storm with 60 mile an hour winds. I was trying to get all of the keets and pullets into the coop. Most of them were just being blown into a far corner under the coop and smooshed up against the wire fence enclosure. It began to poor and the wind was crazy. In desperation, I cut the wire and one by one took them out and put them up in the coop, all 14 of them. Well almost all of them...
Unfortunately, on guinea flew out of my hands and up into the tree above. She was just buckwheating away for her friends. She was up about 40 feet and I felt so bad for her. She ended up out all night and in the morning she was walking up and down the side of the run calling everyone. I opened the door and in she walked.
We have intended to let the guineas free range and roost in our awesome 150 yr old oak and magnolia trees when they were old enough. Well we decided that today was the day.
They are so funny. They won't venture more than 2 feet from the side of the run. They just walk around it and call the chickens inside. We had another storm this afternoon with no wind and they all did fine but they stayed on a bench behind the coop. They are eating from the new feeder we got for them an drinking from the water fountain outside the run. Aside from being lonely for the chickens and run they are doing great!
We just hope that they will know enough to fly up to the trees to roost tonight. Cross your fingers for us
Two days ago, we had a bad storm with 60 mile an hour winds. I was trying to get all of the keets and pullets into the coop. Most of them were just being blown into a far corner under the coop and smooshed up against the wire fence enclosure. It began to poor and the wind was crazy. In desperation, I cut the wire and one by one took them out and put them up in the coop, all 14 of them. Well almost all of them...
Unfortunately, on guinea flew out of my hands and up into the tree above. She was just buckwheating away for her friends. She was up about 40 feet and I felt so bad for her. She ended up out all night and in the morning she was walking up and down the side of the run calling everyone. I opened the door and in she walked.
We have intended to let the guineas free range and roost in our awesome 150 yr old oak and magnolia trees when they were old enough. Well we decided that today was the day.
They are so funny. They won't venture more than 2 feet from the side of the run. They just walk around it and call the chickens inside. We had another storm this afternoon with no wind and they all did fine but they stayed on a bench behind the coop. They are eating from the new feeder we got for them an drinking from the water fountain outside the run. Aside from being lonely for the chickens and run they are doing great!
We just hope that they will know enough to fly up to the trees to roost tonight. Cross your fingers for us
