Guineas Roosting in Trees

[PeepsCA]

This is just my opinion, but all my birds sleep in the dark because, I dunno, it just seems to me it mimics the wild. Plus, I don't want to pay that light bill! LOL.

I agree with mimicking the wild/nature, which ties into the laying issues that I pointed out... Guineas are seasonal layers (regulated by the shortening and lengthening of daylight hours), and so if there's a light on all the time in their coop they can start laying eggs before they would normally, and they will typically lay a lot later into the season as well. This can lead to Hens that deplete the limited number of eggs in their ovary too quickly and completely stop laying well before they should. That doesn't work out in my flocks, if a Hen stops laying, she's just eating money. Egg/keet/bird sales pay the way for my flocks... each year I have to make enough to cover the cost of their feed and the building supplies for their housing. But not everybody manages their flocks the way I do tho, and I'm in no way saying they have to. Just pointing out that some things (and their consequences) are easily overlooked, even when done with the best intentions of caring for our birds.

 

[JLeigh]

Peeps, I never realized guineas had a finite number of eggs in their ovaries. Actually, I never gave it any thought at all .

Now I know

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I can barely wait for the spring so I can start hatching again.

must......have.....more....hatches........

 

[PeepsCA]

Just like women in that aspect... only a certain number of eggs are gonna come out of the ovary/ovaries, lol.

Somehow I knew you'd get addicted to hatching

 

[JLeigh]

Just like women in that aspect... only a certain number of eggs are gonna come out of the ovary/ovaries, lol.

Somehow I knew you'd get addicted to hatching

Yep. Addicted. Just when I tell myself, "Okay, now I'm REALLY done" I see another picture of a bird I have to have. When I'm brooding up keets I feel like I'll never sell them, and the poor wee things are going to get eaten (by me of course), and then I sell them all. Then I wish I had them all back, so I have to hatch more.

And then I start to consider hatching pea fowl, pheasants, Vulturines (that one went away really fast - too expensive) and quail. My eyes get buggy when I realize "I can hatch anything I want."

Sound familiar?

 

[PeepsCA]

LOL... yep sounds COMPLETELY familiar

I've had plenty of time to come to grips that I'm a hatch-o-holic tho. You'll get there eventually too, don't worry, lol.

Oh and you forgot Turkeys in your list!

 

[kuntrygirl]

My guineas started roosting in the trees and NOT in their pen. Now, I have to get them to go back in their pen to roost at night. :/

 

[JLeigh]

Peeps, you may not understand this because I know you love turkeys, but there are two birds I don't want to hatch: ducks and turkeys. But in my "Walter Mitty" moments, I try to figure out a way to hatch owls, hawks, robins, hummingbirds, ostriches - - penquins....... Hey, I'm menopausal, so the cold wouldn't bother me at all! LOL.

 

[PeepsCA]

Oh come on, you would love my Turkeys. They are so personable and happy to see people all the time! Complete opposite from all my ungrateful and unsociable Guineas lol.

 

[PeepsCA]

My guineas started roosting in the trees and NOT in their pen. Now, I have to get them to go back in their pen to roost at night.

Uh oh Kuntry... you any good at climbin' trees, lol? Sorry, not funny, I know. Frustrating bratty birds

 

[kuntrygirl]

My guineas started roosting in the trees and NOT in their pen. Now, I have to get them to go back in their pen to roost at night. :/

[COLOR=4B0082]Uh oh Kuntry... you any good at climbin' trees, lol? Sorry, not funny, I know. Frustrating bratty birds  [/COLOR]

Fortunately, my pea has made me practice getting him out of pecan trees and EVERYWHERE else.

Practice - Had to get him down.

Practice - Had to get him down.

Practice - Had to get him down.

:/