HELP!!!!!!When keets attack!!

[racuda]

That is so sad. I would have been temped to cull the keets.

 

[stethomps]

Wow...I just read your post, thats horrible; sorry to hear about your bad day....It must be in the air. I didnt know guineas were that aggressive either. I actually have 5 that hang around here (my dog herded them home one day and I have no clue who's they are) but if I am inside they will miggle with my free range birds & I would of never suspected that. They sometimes push their way to the feeder, but no more aggressive then a call duck???? I probaly would have done the same thing.

 

[BluegrassSeramas]

Our adult guineas are a little mean, but they usually ignore the free range serama, I guess they are too little to mess with when you can chase and pluck the feathers from a white rock roo!

Tyler! Dont feel bad! Who knew! I just think that the serama were so small that they couldn't handle the bigger babies in there..totally my fault! Lesson learned!!
((BTW--They are soooo cute! 2 normal looking and one that is kind of chipmunk looking... thinking pied? It kills me that keets are soooo cute and then grow up to be weird looking guineas! That hen you gave me is doing great. She has overcome my guinea hen jinx! I find random eggs everywhere since she is free. One in the feed bin, one on the horse trailer, one in the middle of the yard...its like Easter!))

racuda, I felt like culling them this morning, but their cuteness is stopping me. Its not often I have keets, and they have some crazy power over me!

Debbienmousey, They did have food...all over the place... in a feeder and mash in baby food lids with a little poly-vi-sol/and or yogurt. Im always worried the teeny serama will be lost in the brooder and not find the food. I think it was because they were all so new. The week old serama were half the size of the keets and a lot more wobbly. The keets this morning were running around like little demons crashing into all the teenies. When they were put in there, they were so new and weak I guess I forgot how wild they are.

Well, I will def. keep this in mind and hope any serama/guinea raisers will learn from my mistakes.

 

[shelleyd2008]

I have 7 keets in with coturnix quail, bobwhite quail, and chicken chicks and don't have any problems. They range in age from 2 weeks (coturnix and some guineas) to 6 weeks (bobwhites). I have seen them pecking the toes of the quail, but those quail chicks don't put up with any crap, and put the keets in their place.

So sorry that your seramas were hurt!

 

[BluegrassSeramas]

Thanks Shelley. Next time I'll hatch out some quail too to kick those keets' rears.

Think it was because the serama were just so new. Those keets are hardy active little things!

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

Yes the keets are active to say the least. lol they grow like weeds to. It seems like they hatch one day, the next they are doubled in size, the third they are running around the yard. lol

Steve