Noise

[cracking up]

Maybe mine aren't noisy because they free range. I've never had a complaint from the neighbors and the one with the dogs is the only one they make noise at so I asked him if they bother him and he said no.

On the good side, my dog used to get ticks and I haven't seen one in years. We used to have a big king snake that would hang out by the chickens. We liked him and I think he ate rats but we haven't seen him in a couple of years either.

 

[darkmatter]

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Are they always noisy?......Yes, they are good audible watchdogs, they will "go off" when a car enters the drive, a stray dog comes around, a fox, when you wear a different hat, when a cloud covers the sun, when they find a bug............

Can you hear them in the house?.........Yes, even when the A/C is on and TV is blaring, they are at the door yelling about finding the "leftover" catfood the Missus put out for the cat. (they chased the cat away to get her food)

Do Guineas and chickens get along?.......They do at my place, they roost together in the Coop and in the Morning the Guineas fly out of the run to do bug patrol while the chickens remain in the run. Guineas can harass the chickens to point of death, but I raise them together from keets and chicks in the same batch. I place the Guinea eggs in the incubator and place the chicken eggs a week later to have them hatch together. I have also incubated chickens timed to hatch when the Keet order arrived to raise them together. I have also placed guinea eggs under a broody hen to hatch and raise with the combined flock.

The chickens actually do a better job protecting and raising keets then the Mama Guinea does here in the Midwest where the keets will die of morning dew hypothermia if left to the guineas, while the Mama Hen will shelter them under her.

Here you can see the Guineas and Chickens as a combined flock weathering our snowstorm this year

 

[patti'speeps]

I've had Guineas for 2 years now and I absolutely love them. I hatched out over 120 of them from my own hens last season and I actually hated to get rid of them but did not have the room to keep them all. My breeders have been handled and worked with since they were babies so they are very use to my husband and myself. It takes a special person to have Guineas and want more of them, lol.

 

[perchie.girl]

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LOL... Or they had all males. Which is what happened to me. I adopted a flock from a gal who was being evicted and wound up with all boys. The way I found out was I rasied up six keets to increase my flock.... LOL Only one was female. And what a loud mouth she was.... I can still see her mouth was always open..... Looking forward to having them again.