Guineas and the rain!

[BurchFam]

We have our 6, 1-yr old guineas in a pen with roosts. Since we got them as adults, we are keeping them confined for a couple weeks to learn our acreage as their home before releasing them. We converted a small 4*3 yard shed into a coop for them to go into in poor weather. Since they are penned, we haven't felt the need to enclose them into the coop but its pouring out today and they are still outside. I'm ok if they decide to sit in the rain, but with storms pending this evening and tomorrow, will they go in the coop on their own? Should I try to herd them in there? There are roosts and a ladder in their for them. I'm just a new guinea mother and worrying too much!

 

[Guineagang]

The rain won't do anything to them. They are super hardy birds and will do just fine outside. Mine don't have a coop and they just live outside happily even when it rains. We have terrace with a roof over it but they never take cover there, they prefer to be outside and free.

 

[jridgway1972]

Leave that coup/shed open. If the rain gets bad enough they will go in.

 

[Milehighbirdguy]

Mine flew the coup and my chickens have free range in the back yard they have a coup but I never close the door(I also have a Pyrenees) but we had a real gully washer the other night and my guineas flew the coup in the middle of the night… they’ve since come back but leave whenever they please now any ideas on getting them to stick around?

 

[R2elk]

Mine flew the coup and my chickens have free range in the back yard they have a coup but I never close the door(I also have a Pyrenees) but we had a real gully washer the other night and my guineas flew the coup in the middle of the night… they’ve since come back but leave whenever they please now any ideas on getting them to stick around?

This thread is from 2014. The latest that any of the people who have posted in this thread were on BYC was in 2016. You would be better off to stsrt your own thread.

 

[Sydney65]

We have our 6, 1-yr old guineas in a pen with roosts. Since we got them as adults, we are keeping them confined for a couple weeks to learn our acreage as their home before releasing them. We converted a small 4*3 yard shed into a coop for them to go into in poor weather. Since they are penned, we haven't felt the need to enclose them into the coop but its pouring out today and they are still outside. I'm ok if they decide to sit in the rain, but with storms pending this evening and tomorrow, will they go in the coop on their own? Should I try to herd them in there? There are roosts and a ladder in their for them. I'm just a new guinea mother and worrying too much!

With the heat we've been having, they'd enjoy it. We put up a spritzer for ours d/t the heat. The one that lived inside over the winter took a shower a couple of times a month and she loved it.