Granny's gone and done it again

[CapricornFarm]

Ah gotcha. What if you kept a pair of adults? We’re you planning on keeping the keets?

Right now they are in brooders or small cages but they need out! I have a 10x10x6 high dog run and am considering putting it up right next to the hoop coop. I could put roofing over it and tarps on the sides. I wish i could tell which guineas are pairs. I have 3 hens and 7 roos that are adults.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Where is Granny tonight?

 

[AlleysChicks]

Right now they are in brooders or small cages but they need out! I have a 10x10x6 high dog run and am considering putting it up right next to the hoop coop. I could put roofing over it and tarps on the sides. I wish i could tell which guineas are pairs. I have 3 hens and 7 roos that are adults.

that’s a lot of boys! Just getting the freeloaders gone would help. Anyway to mark them and watch them?

 

[AlleysChicks]

Either I’m super tired or autocorrect is kicking my butt. Either way don’t mind my weird sentences

 

[AlleysChicks]

So just read up on guineas. Speed reading. Apparently physically they can be almost impossible to determine sex. Females make a vocalization that sounds like “buck wheat” or “good luck”. It’s 2 syllables, where males only have a 1 syllable call.

 

[CapricornFarm]

that’s a lot of boys! Just getting the freeloaders gone would help. Anyway to mark them and watch them?

I can zip tie their legs but as soon as you let them out of the coop they are zooming around. The males spend a lot of time chasing each other. And we have 13 wooded acres. Its not even easy to tell which are hens because a lot of them look so similar!

 

[AlleysChicks]

They look huge!

 

[CapricornFarm]

So just read up on guineas. Speed reading. Apparently physically they can be almost impossible to determine sex. Females make a vocalization that sounds like “buck wheat” or “good luck”. It’s 2 syllables, where males only have a 1 syllable call.

Yeah, i know that much. I know the cinnamon colored one is a hen. And there is a purple one that i have seen sitting on the nest. You should see how much they run! Completely nuts. The ear lobe things are supposed to be rounder and bigger on the males. Females have the bottom of the earlobes flatter looking.

 

[twisted-acres-farm]

I can zip tie their legs but as soon as you let them out of the coop they are zooming around. The males spend a lot of time chasing each other. And we have 13 wooded acres. Its not even easy to tell which are hens because a lot of them look so similar! View attachment 1509334

do you have a separate place/pen where you could put them one by one and keep track of the of production if production drops by one you have a hen and then band her return he to the flock and stick another in solitary confinement ??

 

[CapricornFarm]

They look huge!

Mostly feathers, but when the turkeys are out you have to look hard to see which is which.
And they rarely sit still!