Ready to release 6 month old hand-raised guinea

[KirbyH]

Popeye, my rescued female guinea, who I wrote about elsewhere on this site, is now ready to be released. There are two males who will sit by her cage the better part of the day. They just hunker down. They are part of a smaller group sort of separate from the main flock who have stayed around from the beginning. It is the start of breeding season and I know things are getting frantic, but these two males seem to be apart from the main group and not much involved. There also seem to be many more males than females in the big flock And the little flock consists of four males and a female. Should I release her in the morning when one or the other of these two males are around or what? Ideas? I don’t want to release her when the weather is cold. Will she go off and roost with the others or come back here? I have no predator proof coop off the ground that she could come back to. The temperature ranges from mainly mid 70’s high 60’s in the daytime, low 50’s to high 30’s at night. I can wait a week until the temperature is not in the 30’s at night but I’m nervous these fellows who hang around will give up and depart. I welcome all ideas.

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Exciting time for Popeye! My vote would be to release her now while her escorts are interested... I would guess that she will either stay with them or try to get back into her outside cage at night...
Best of luck!!! Let us know how it goes!

Popeye, my rescued female guinea, who I wrote about elsewhere on this site, is now ready to be released. There are two males who will sit by her cage the better part of the day. They just hunker down. They are part of a smaller group sort of separate from the main flock who have stayed around from the beginning. It is the start of breeding season and I know things are getting frantic, but these two males seem to be apart from the main group and not much involved. There also seem to be many more males than females in the big flock And the little flock consists of four males and a female. Should I release her in the morning when one or the other of these two males are around or what? Ideas? I don’t want to release her when the weather is cold. Will she go off and roost with the others or come back here? I have no predator proof coop off the ground that she could come back to. The temperature ranges from mainly mid 70’s high 60’s in the daytime, low 50’s to high 30’s at night. I can wait a week until the temperature is not in the 30’s at night but I’m nervous these fellows who hang around will give up and depart. I welcome all ideas.