Post some pictures of your Guineas Nests

[kuntrygirl]

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OMG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WOW !!!!!!!!!!

 

[melroseladi]

When my hen started looking for a place to nest I locked her and my 2 males in their run/chainlink kennel. I put the bottom of a pet carrier in the run with a piece of plywood leaned over it. When the hen started laying she would just lay in the dirt in the run. I would put the egg into the nest. After the 6th egg she started laying in the nest. I have a dogloo dog house in the run that they would roost in BUT when she started laying they stopped going in and now just roost in the run. I took the nest and moved it into the doghouse, put the hen in their twice, and she proceeded to lay in there from then on. We now have 23 eggs (would have had 24 but one broke). She has not started setting as of yet, though.

 

[perchie.girl]

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I was just on the Guinea Farm site.... http://www.guineafarm.com/descriptions.html They have white guineas there and their verbal description is very much like your white Guineas. Has anyone bought Keets there?

 

[perchie.girl]

melroseladi

Oooh I could do that....

 

[PeepsCA]

perchie.girl :

Peeps Can you get a pix of your dog crate and wood setup? I am designing my coop for guineas and am prepared to haul in brush if that is what it takes to give them a place to nest. The ribbon wood on this property would be perfect to make a brush pile within the coop for nesting area. I have lots of Decomposed Granite sand for making a good egg base. Do you have to lock them in and not let them freerange duing egg laying season?

I'll try to get some pics of their nesting areas, one is just a rectangle shape wooden frame leaned at an angle against the back wall of their covered pen with some pine branches attached to it for privacy and they also lay in a crappy old (chewed on) large plastic dog crate (like you'd ship a dog in) lol. I usually leave a few marked eggs in each spot and they pile on more eggs every day, which I collect, and then let them out to free range. They don't get to free range as much as they do in the "off season" but I do still try to let them out into the goat pasture every day... cuz I just feel way too guilty locking them up

lol, plus I need them to eat ticks and patrol for snakes up there!​

 

[melroseladi]

I was just letting my males out to free range when the hen started laying. They would stick pretty close to the pen. Then I started letting the hen out after she had laid for the day. Now I let them out to free range and the all go back to the pen when it is time for her to lay. It is working so far. Now if they would just accept the new hen into the flock we will be doing good. My new hen is still not laying.

 

[zazouse]

perchie.girl :

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I was just on the Guinea Farm site.... http://www.guineafarm.com/descriptions.html They have white guineas there and their verbal description is very much like your white Guineas. Has anyone bought Keets there?

Which one were you looking at i could not find it by their discription of white.​

 

[zazouse]

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Are those chicken eggs?

 

[melroseladi]

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Are those chicken eggs?

Nope just guinea eggs. I was given 3 adult guineas, 1 hen and 2 males, and recently added another hen but she isn't with the rest of them yet and still hasn't begun laying.

 

[flower]

I have purchased hatching eggs from the Guinea Farm and they were nice . A family run farm that used to answer the phone when I was ordering from them but I have not order any lately because of my transient lifestyle. I started with the orginal color grey pearl and later found that I liked the Buff Dundott because the are easily sexed at birth and are a little more quiet and less flighty.

perchie.girl :

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I was just on the Guinea Farm site.... http://www.guineafarm.com/descriptions.html They have white guineas there and their verbal description is very much like your white Guineas. Has anyone bought Keets there?​