Keets Love Millett ?

[Wayne]

Mine missed that part of their education. For 3 weeks now, i offer them millett every evening, presented in a small cardboard bowl, that I rattle / shake/ roll (sorry, couldn't resist), and call out 'treat, treat,treat' place the bowl in their coop and go away. They never bother it.....

Clues as to how I might entice them, I was hoping this would be my key to getting them to coop- up in the evening....

wayne

 

[prairie]

That would be my guineas too -- not too bright even though I love em!

I have treats in a large plastic jar and shake it but then I go to the pen and toss a few handfuls in front of them. sometimes I have to toss a bit to them to entice them into the run. If I set the bowl down I don't think they would know what to do .

Guineas don't like change~ I got an automatic door and in trying to get them used to it I left the big door shut (which is the one they usually use) so that they must go through the little door. It's been several days and they still can't figure out how to fly down from their roost and go out the little door. The first day one of the males flew down and right into the door -- guess he thought it was open like always and didn't looks. He fell to the ground after hitting the door jumped up and then couldn't figure out what to do.

 

[PeepsCA]

Try crushing up some freeze dried meal worms and adding those to the millet. My keets, quail chicks and turkey poults all go nuts over freeze dried meal worms... so hopefully your keets will too and then they may start eating the millet too since it's in the same treat dish.

 

[Danisclan]

What kind of millet? Like the millet you feed just birds? Or is there a special millet? I got millet and they wont touch it either. They do like watermelon rinds, but it takes them awhile to get brave and go eat it

 

[PeepsCA]

White proso millet... You can buy it plain by itself, in parakeet or even cockatiel seed mixes, wild bird seed mixes (any of the mixes that includes other small seeds and are usually mostly white millet), on sprays (still on the stem) etc. Keets can't really handle anything but the small millet seeds until they are about 5-6 weeks old tho, and they should be provided chick grit with the millet so they are able to grind it up/digest the seeds.

 

[JLeigh]

My guineas never went berserk for white proso millet either (bummer), and I bought a 50 lb. bag of the stuff. They would eat it, but it wasn't "the bomb" for my guineas that I'd heard about. It just depends on the guineas I guess. I buy live crickets VERY occasionally. Now, that's better than a good comedy show on TV. When I do that, I pull up a chair. .

But dried mealworms? They would chase me around the yard for those, which didn't exactly please me - - at 15 bucks for 10 oz. They even learned to recognize the yellow screwtop cap on the plastic jar. I could just hold that up and they'd come running. I used them sparingly for treats and training.

 

[Danisclan]

My 7 keets are about 6 and a half months old. So I am excited for the day that they can freerange. There still in house right
now, in our sun room running free. Its empty. Hubby is working on their coop didnt want to put them in with chickens. I can go
go on forever about them. I can start treat training them.

 

[MTerry]

My nine week old guineas love millet, I did start them on it early, just putting a little in their box saying "good stuff", it took them a while to get into it. Now they are in the coop, and a fenced area during the day, trying to get them back in the coop in the evening can be difficult. They are not free ranging yet, just in the covered fenced area. I put the millet in the coop, calling "good stuff", sometimes they'll come up the ramp and into the coop, sometimes they act like they have no idea how to get in the coop.