KirbyH
Songster
I want to start introducing what is surely a tame guinea fowl 11 weeks old into the local neighborhood flock. I’ve been putting her in a coop and spreading millet around to attract the flock. They are interested in her and the millet. For reasons unrelated to her, I have to wait until she has her helmet to set her free so I am going slow. She isn’t fully fledged so she gets cold and cannot be left out at night, in fact I don’t keep her out long. When she’s got more feathers, I’ll let her stay out longer. Do you think she’ll integrate into the flock (it roosts at a neighbor’s) after some increasing time of being around them?
I wrote about this bird in an earlier thread. I thought, because she was hatched by a turkey, that she was a turkey. She wasn’t. The turkeys killed her three siblings and wounded her, complicating my getting her a companion. So she has been raised by hand and is somewhat attached to me. She follows me around if I am the only act in town but if she were set loose, I think she would be hard to catch. I don’t want to let her loose until there is a reasonable expectation of survival. She lives in a cage in the house when she is not in her small coop outdoors. I very much want her to survive and I’m asking for advice on the next steps.
I wrote about this bird in an earlier thread. I thought, because she was hatched by a turkey, that she was a turkey. She wasn’t. The turkeys killed her three siblings and wounded her, complicating my getting her a companion. So she has been raised by hand and is somewhat attached to me. She follows me around if I am the only act in town but if she were set loose, I think she would be hard to catch. I don’t want to let her loose until there is a reasonable expectation of survival. She lives in a cage in the house when she is not in her small coop outdoors. I very much want her to survive and I’m asking for advice on the next steps.