guineas locked up nesting boxes

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if any of you have guineas locked up and have some kind of box they use can you please post pics of them so i can make my guineas something similar i had to lock them up latley because they were making nest across the road in the nieghbors yard and i dont want them to do that

 

[Waldo]

I don't know what you have your guineas locked up in, but all I do is prop a piece of plywood against the wall of the house they roost in. I put a mixture of leaves and pine straw on the ground behind the board and put in either golf balls, chicken eggs or guinea eggs, whichever I have. After they started laying there I removed what I put there for eggs. I tried to put the "nest" where it would be the darkest and most private place. They have been laying like crazy in them.

 

[lorad]

Good idea with the plywood- mine used to lay eggs next to a portable pen I had pulled in the barn for controlled breeding of my Brahmas. I'm still waiting for my first egg this year!

Lora

 

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my guineas are locked up in a covered chicken pen with a old chicken coop i used this pen for bantams and meat birds but now they are all just mixed in with my standards

 

[MuranoFarms]

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Ok...I'm adding golf balls right now! lol I don't know if mine aren't laying yet, or if they're laying out on the woods. They come back to the coop several times during the day. I've even seen the male 'guarding' one of the females under an alcove in the coop, but no eggs. If they're laying in the woods, I'll never find it! They travel over at least 5 acres during the day...maybe more. Hopefully the golf balls will encourage them to lay in the coop!

 

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Ok...I'm adding golf balls right now! lol I don't know if mine aren't laying yet, or if they're laying out on the woods. They come back to the coop several times during the day. I've even seen the male 'guarding' one of the females under an alcove in the coop, but no eggs. If they're laying in the woods, I'll never find it! They travel over at least 5 acres during the day...maybe more. Hopefully the golf balls will encourage them to lay in the coop!

it took me forever to find my guineas nest i just decided to follow them around yesterday and they went across the road and i stayed back for at lease 10 mins. and then went to look across the road and found a pied guinea on a nest with no eggs and my mom and dad think i should lock them up when they start to lay cause something got one of them last month that was siting on eggs

 

[Waldo]

I fixed my guinea nests a good while before they started laying as I did not know exactly when they would start. I thought if I waited until I found an egg laying somewhere they might be skittish about any nest I might fix. They don't seem to like anything changed around them. I have four pieces of plywood scrap about 18" by 2 ft. for thm to get behind. I have been getting enough eggs out of these nests to put some in the incubator and yesterday got out 15 to put under a hen.I had been told if you bothered their nests they would stop laying there, but as I left half doz. or more in each nest each time, they don't seem to know any are gone. We bought our golf balls at Walmart. the cheepest ones they sell. We use them in our chicken nests also. We sometimes have chicken snakes and hope to give them a problem when they swallow them.

 

[MuranoFarms]

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it took me forever to find my guineas nest i just decided to follow them around yesterday and they went across the road and i stayed back for at lease 10 mins. and then went to look across the road and found a pied guinea on a nest with no eggs and my mom and dad think i should lock them up when they start to lay cause something got one of them last month that was siting on eggs

I decided to poke around in the woods a bit where they hang out. Every time I got near the male he freaked out hollering his head off, but I couldn't see a female. Finally I saw her under a pile of brush...I got close enough to see her stand up and there was an egg!!!! Yeay. I left real quick. I'll go back later and see how many are there and maybe replace some with golf balls. I found a baby tick on me after coming back....proof positive that I need to incubate some more guinea eggs!

Thanks for the tip...I would have never found it if I wasn't following them.​

 

[americana-chick]

My Guineas lay in the chicken coop but if they go broody they run off somewhere else that is more private.
They are now in the chicken run though so if they want to go broody they will have to pick somewhere in the coop! (or in the run... but why would you want to do that?

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I do let mine out to free range at least 3-4 times a week.

 

[fishman65]

I just take a 55 gallon plastic barrell and cut a hole in the side. The guineas lay in there because it is nice and dark and dry. I got about 5 in my guinea pen and they have just started to lay this week. Just put some straw in there and they will do the rest. Last year i had two females go broody and hatched out about 60 chicks. No incubator needed.