Guinea and quail.

[ColesCreek]

Sweetgrass are ideal and look good

The worst are the blue Narragansett, well in oz they are anyway.

 

[sweety birds]

hi, sorry to be coming into this thread so late but I've been doing a lot of internet research on my birds and most posts lead me here to BYC. I am prob in the wrong part of the world from the rest of you being in the north of Scotland isle of Orkney, but figure the advise would be the same. I have chickens turkeys quail and a keet.
I have 17 chicks hatched from mixed breeds for folk locally, as I didn't know what these were I left everything 4 weeks(figured most things except goose and Muscovy would be hatched by then) out of this I got what I now think is a keet. based on the eggs she came out of, there were 11 more eggs like this one but nothing hatched. so now we have a2 week old keet. she seemed to be struggling among the chicks a they were trampling her. 3 days later we got 10 bobwhite (5 we lost within the first few days they seemed to be broken legs) to start the quail were in with a small chick who sadly we lost due to an infected "belly button". after she died the quail seemed to by quite hyper and really noisie, so I decided to put the keet in with them as she was being trampled by the chicks. and everyone seems to have settled down in one happy group 5 bobwhites and a keet. (I should prob say that I didn't know what this keet was at the time as I was not expecting guinea eggs).
keet and quail are now 2-2.5 weeks old and i'm thinking towards the future, when it's time for them to move on to the next stage does keet go with quail, put out on her own or in with the chickens and turkeys who currently have the big shed. I plan to put the quail in a coop of their own away from the chickens. living on a small island I don't have access to all these breeds so most have to be bought in over he post, I would like to give keet a friend so have bought more batches of eggs, 3 so far with no luck, 4 the batch in the incubator due on the 27th October 2015. by this time keet will be about 6 weeks. and will prob be heading on to the next stage. oviously we are heading into winter with young chicks, which is worring me a bit. but also wondered when where (providing we have a successful hatch this time) can the guinea be introduced successfully? keet will be about 12 weeks when new ones are 6 weeks and it will be the middle of December. any advise on these logistics would be very much appreciated. please be kind i'm still learning on the job. also I have 12 turkeys 11 weeks (some will be Christmas dinner) living with 12 hens and 8 cockreals with only 7 hens at laying age (these are hybrid nova browns) no idea what sex quail or new chicks are