Plans for integration and changing coops

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

thanks, I like the pastels & lavenders the best....the lady I got mine from just got some chocolate & coral blue ones....I'll be getting some of them when she has them....looking better on integrating the two groups into one flock....the orginal flock is starting to be more tolerant of the newcomers....View attachment 1916820 View attachment 1916822

That’s great news! I haven’t heard of a pastel, but we have lavenders. I would love to have a chocolate! We’ve had two coral blues and both have been eaten by predators of some kind; looks like coral blue is kind of a cursed color for us...

I still haven’t decided what to do to get the old guineas integrated with the new and into the new coop, but it sounds like people are saying I’d need to split the coop and run and lock them all up for a considerable amount of time...

 

[dwlacy]

update....keets appear to be working closer to be integrated....in the pic attached, the pied lavender preening herself has been the one to "set how close" the "newbies" were allowed to get to her "homies"....at times it has been hard to determine whether the newbies were just avoiding the other group or running away scared

when they are close....two other things of note, the two mix together somewhat at the feeder, the newbies are able to sneak in and eat some while the homies & it appears to be happening more frequently.....my birds free range 24/7, I am planning on building a roost for them in a shed for the winter, right now they roost in a big tree right outside the back of my house, used to be a little tree right off my front porch, but the combined bird weight was becoming too much for that branch, so they relocated.....the newbies are also now roosting the in that same tree, now sure if they are all together as guineas usually do, to high up, to many leaves & dark....