Okay, so I've had guineas before and never had this problem. I have four adult guineas now (plus some younger birds). Anyway, the four adults have always roosted at night when they were in the barn. After an incident involving the scalping of a chicken they were moved into the original bird pen the geese use. There is a house with roosts present. For months now they've been roosting in there. They eat out of the feeder, they nest in there, etc., but the last few nights they have gone to bed in the middle of my yard...on the ground. It's fenced, but there's no way it's safe if an owl notices them. Granted the geese usually are out on the yard so maybe they dissuade nocturnal, aerial predators. Last night I did some rearranging and pen building. I moved the house and changed the bedding out. They were in it earlier in the afternoon, but when it got dark I peeked out to see where they were and they were asleep by the gate in the front corner of the pen on the ground. I am at a loss of what to do. Catching them and putting them in the house is probably a wee bit more traumatic than it is worth, and I'd rather not terrorize them. Especially when push comes to shave they can clear a fence, even clipped, and we all know what forcing guineas results in. How can I get these silly birds to start roosting in their house again? Especially before they start teaching the youngsters sleeping on the floor is what all the cool kids do...
