I have 3 guineas which are free ranging.. about 5 months old and started as a flock of 6 but 1 died unexplained and 2 flew in with the dogs ( the offending bird killer has since been rehomed). I am looking to get 3 or 4 more keets. they are 11 weeks old. Will the older guineas accept the new ones or am I going to have to go through the long process of teaching them where home is and slow release? My 3 sleep on top of the chicken run at night. I have a few 2X 4 that rest on top the run and cross over to the rabbit run 6' high that they prefer. there is a a roost in the chicken run 3' up but the guineas don't like to go in the chicken run.I did manage to get them in during the last storm because I was afraid of wet birds trying to fly and getting eaten (one group of muscoveys gets locked up at night, the other does not and I only lose birds in bad storms. The older group bullies the younger ones). The pecking order oddly enough is chickens then guineas then the muscoveys despite their size. I can close the chicken run during the day and give the chickens an alternate ladder to the coop, but am hoping if I add the keets to the older birds, maybe they will follow them around. the older birds come running when I go outside as they know where the treats are. Can I release one keet at a time and keep the others either in a crate or in the chicken run? or am I going to have territorial ism with the guineas?
