Guinea Housing/Coop Gallery

[BoogieBug]

Aren't they amazing that they fly so quickly?

Yes, it is totally amazing!! I LOVE your hoop coop!! I need to show this to the hubster! I will definitely go to the thread you mentioned and read up. Thanks so much for sharing!

 

[GlennLee]

@Victoria-nola - I still think your coop is amazing. I mentioned that I was interested in using that design to put over our raspberries, well that never happened, but we were able to shore up the existing structure. Thanks for posting the pics with the guineas roosting inside. I think I only saw the empty coop before.

 

[Krazyquilts]

Here is my brooder. I made it from a shipping crate box I got out of the trash pile at work. I used thin wood strips and chicken wire to make the lid and have tie wire with snaps to put over the lid to ensure any predators can't get it open.

I plan to hang my heat lamp from ceiling so I can adjust it easily, but for now, its attached to the saw horse and I just add blocks of wood under saw horse to make it taller and raise the lamp. Total cost $0.

What a nice find!

 

[Krazyquilts]

These are both GREAT!!! I love the fact that you repurposed a shipping crate and the box above for both! That is right up my alley!!

We are borrowing a chicken coop from our neighbors as a "teenager" space (not sure if 2 weeks qualifies as a teen, but they clearly needed a bigger box!). So far, so good. It helps that here in GA the night time temps have been in the upper 60's and low-to-mid 70's.
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Thank you SO MUCH for sharing. These give me ideas of what to keep an eye out for. I have a friend who hauls junk, so when he finds stuff that he thinks I can repurpose, he calls me. And some of the so called "junk" that he picks up is practically brand new!!! Some people would rather throw out perfectly good stuff than try to sell it, I suppose.

I love that coop idea for a brooder! That way they've got plenty of room to get away from the heat lamp too.

 

[Krazyquilts]

There are tons of pictures online of chicken coops, chicken tractors, chicken pens, etc., but very few of guinea "housing." I realize guineas like to roost in trees and nest on the ground, but for those who keep their guineas cooped up at night, I'd love to see what others have come up with.

As a newbie Guinea keeper, my keets are currently in a Kohl's box but it is clearly time to transition them to something more appropriate. I didn't expect them to start flying at 1 week of age!!!

Below is the Kohl's Keet Resort that my guineas are in temporarily. I might add that we have a very bold barred owl that hangs out in our trees, and a very fat resident racoon, so I'm hesitant to put the keets outside yet. I know we will need to build Fort Knox to keep the predators out.

What do others use for the transition from brooder to free ranging? Please post your pics. Thanks!!

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I didn't expect mine to fly so fast either, nor the turkey poults I was brooding with them. One of my Yorkies wouldn't stop going nutso barking in the middle of night down in the living room - turns out there was a turkey poult under the couch! For once her barking was actually helpful! Of course I couldn't catch the d@mn thing so I had to get my poor husband up to help me and then I couldn't stop laughing about it.

 

[Krazyquilts]

Aren't they amazing that they fly so quickly? We brooded them for about 3-4 weeks in a large wire dog kennel that is 48" long, 30" or so wide, covered with 1/2" hardware cloth, on our porch. Keets are so tiny that they can escape 1" openings easily. We used the Mama-Heating-Pad method. Then we built them a hoop-coop out of cattle panels, also covered in hardware cloth, with a tarp on top, under trees with a little sunny area. While they were growing in that, we built their permanent coop, which is a modified hoop coop that I designed in answer to many of the concerns about guineas, which is that they prefer to roost high in trees, hard to coop, etc. It is important to take seriously that predators will kill them all if they are not protected. Here is the thread I started in order to discuss the design with a design engineer who is a member here on BWC. I have never had time to write it up properly with plans:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/modified-hoop-coop-design-development.1120946/page-4
That link goes to page 4, where photos begin.

WOW! That is a truly extraordinary guinea coop!!!!!!! That is some seriously awesome inspiration for a future coop!

Edited to add: how many guineas do you house in it?

 

[Namrag]

My guineas sleep on a 2x4 that is 6' up in my run and has cattle panel covered in a tarp arched over it. They are safe and secure but still get to enjoy the night time air like they like to lol. They used to sleep in the coop but I needed to move some chickens in there and they are mean to the chickens at bed time so I kicked them out.

New to chickens and guineas here - so they CAN live together given enough room in the coop? My pullets have about 600 sq. ft. to run in until the spring when they'll free range all day. I was going to get keets in the spring.

 

[BoogieBug]

I didn't expect mine to fly so fast either, nor the turkey poults I was brooding with them. One of my Yorkies wouldn't stop going nutso barking in the middle of night down in the living room - turns out there was a turkey poult under the couch! For once her barking was actually helpful! Of course I couldn't catch the d@mn thing so I had to get my poor husband up to help me and then I couldn't stop laughing about it.