Want to add (two) 1 year old Pearl guineas to chicken flock??

[MuranoFarms]

In the case of dust bathing, that could have been avoided had you provided them with a spot to dust bathe in. For now I have a pile of wood ash with some DE mixed in. They love it! DH is building a old fashioned horse watering trough to go with the 'wild west saloon' style coop he just had to build. I'll be moving their dust bath mixture to that once it's finished.

 

[NateinFL]

Thanks for the advice, I did provide them with a spot to dust bathe in, they just preferred a different spot

As you know, animals do what they want sometimes.

 

[kcardella]

I keep my 8 guineas with my chickens, no problems. They even roost together at night sometimes (some of the guineas prefer the hen house.

Mine do however, dig holes in the yard (they have several places to dust bathe), but dig all over. They also go into my garden and eat the veggies - they seem to prefer ripe tomatoes!

I love them anyway; they make me smile, and I have not had any ticks for years!

 

[SimplyForties]

Although they are in and out of each other's coops all day long, my guineas, my chickens and my turkeys all roost separately at night and, while free-ranging, seem to merely tolerate each other. Alas, my guineas are digging to China too!

I love my guineas and have no regrets about getting them!

 

[Guinea Goonie]

Guinea Fowl WILL dust bath. They love it. They can produce holes, but so do the chickens.

I have 32 Guinea Fowl and about 50 chickens of which about 25 are layers.

The rest are roos, polish babies, bantams, exotics and mutts.

The Guineas hardly ever cause trouble. They stay with the other Guineas during free range and they go to roost right along with the chickens.

They eat, drink and play right along with the chickens and they are great at alerting to predators.

I LOVE my little shenanigan Guinea Fowl, they make me smile.

I have come to one conclusion about Guineas. They just love being a Guinea.

 

[rhoda_bruce]

I'm just thinking........I have noticed that our 2 friends with holes in their yards are both from FL, which is shaped in such a way to have more than its share of coastline. I am just wondering about the soil types. Is it possible that ya'll have sandy soil, which would be very easy to move around? I would imagine that any type of soil other than the blackjack, which is present in my yard would be much more workable for humans and animals; which could be a good thing or bad thing, in this case ( well not for me ). Considering that my soil is jet black and extremely heavy and sticky when wet and dark grey and hard as concrete when dry, naturally the chickens or guineas would prefer to roll around in the ashes.

 

[CCCChickenman]

Hi,
We are finally caretakers of (two) 8 month old Pearl Guineas.
We decided to jump in and adopt these two beautiful birds.
They are wide eyed, and bushey-tailed, healthy, hungry, and happy...so far
We are keeping them in the hen house, in a large dog transport wire cage for a week or so, to get acclimated to our chickens way of life.
Take them out if nice weather etc...
Gave them a nice bed of hay, crumbles in the morn, a spoonful of red & white millet w/oilers in crumbles @ dinner.
Waiting to hear them "talk" to help determine what we have.
They have awesome "helmuts" and small wattles (both birds look pretty much the same.....BEAUTIFUL...

Thanks for all the info..

Happy Holidays,
Jim