Just how noisy are guineas?

[Skyesrocket]

They are VERY LOUD. I have a large metal pole barn. I had 8 guineas that liked to roost in the rafters at night. It was so loud in there that my husband and I couldn't hear each other talking while doing evening barn chores.
I really enjoy the quiet of the country, so the guineas had to go.

 

[wynedot55]

guins being loud is what them a pleasure to keep.their noise doesnt bother me at all.as a matter of fact i love it when they raise a runkus.

 

[tmk]

I would love guineas but I've heard it's difficult to keep them.
I have been reading about them and there are different techniques not to have them wonder off completely.

Is it realistic to expect those methods to do the magic and have them to hang around our little property of 2 acres or so??

I don't mind them roaming around but would like for them to eventually come home to sleep in the safe coop.

 

[chicks rule]

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I agree totally, Love my guinea's all 10 of them, and when they make a ruckus I always check to see what is going on.

 

[FutureChickenMan]

 

[ozark hen]

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mine roost every night with the chickens. I have one pair who are always the last to go inside. Last night I went out to lock up the coop and saw one pair of guineas still out so I went back in and told dh to remind to check back in half an hour...well, at 2 a.m. I awoke and remembered I didn't go back out

Out I went and all were in and all were safe. I was so grateful.

 

[fancyfowl4ever]

My mom liked the guineas too, until they started screetching for no reason at 4 am(we endured it for 2 weeks to be woken up at 4 am and when we look out there is nothin), then one day mom went out with a shot gun and that was the end of my first batch of guineas.

The guineas I always had have always been weird tho, if a hawk comes swooping down grabbing one - no one makes a sound, if a coyote grabs one - silence, if a horse walks past the enclosure(something that happens multiple times a day) we raise a ruckus as if that horse(or cow, or cat, or bucket, or human) is killing them......

They are the cutest things when they run around chirping and chattering away with eachother. Just not too bright....

 

[LazyGirl]

Guineas are noisy and really dumb...they make my chickens look like geniuses! But I like them anyway. I do organic farming and they are my natural bug control. They go out first thing and hunt bugs all day and hardly touch the food. I raised my first 6 with chickens and so they learned to roost at night. Then my dog killed all but 1 and so i adopted 6 more as "teenagers". These were even noisier than mine since they weren't as tame. But now they have calmed down a bit, and eventually figured out how to roost in their own coop (inside the garden, where the chickens are OUTside the garden)!
The more you handle them as chicks, the calmer they will be.

 

[LazyGirl]

Oh ya, they make a racket during the day when there is nothing amiss. And they chirp in the evening before bed. But when we hear them squalking at 2am, we know something is out there. We've made the mistake of ignoring them in the middle of the night because we couldn't see anything, and later find out that a possum had gotten a couple!

 

[tmk]

Thanks for the info

So raising keets with chicks incourage them to stick around, huh.
The book I read said to keep them in the pen for at least a month but still no gurantee for them not to wonder off forever.
I'd like to take all of the advice on this matter when I get my guineas