How to Make Then Stay

[lizzard14]

When we first moved into our new house, the first couple of years we went through about 35 guineas. They were free ranging and sleeping in the trees right off the back porch. We kept losing them, I'd get up in the mornings and just find feathers. I kept buying guineas, finally we got more and kept them in the barn and then we'd let them out of a morning and lock them up at night but even then, we started losing them in the mid mornings and in the late afternoons. We had a trapper come out and set a trap. We ended up having a mountain lion and a bob cat eating them, and hawks. knock on wood, the last couple of years we havent had any problems.

 

[Sharikas]

Guineas will die if they roost in the trees, not all at once but they eventually will be killed off. All of our Guineas are in a coop with our Orpingtons. We leave them in their brooder for 6 weeks, and then keep them locked in for another 6 weeks. They always return to the coop at night, and they never roost in trees or fly away. We buy and sell lots of Guineas, and I do not sell to people who dont have a Coop, or barn for them.