What to do with guinea fowl!!!!!!!!!Any pics????

[chicken_angler]

Ok sorry everyone. I should ask my most specific questions. I am going to have them in a dog house type thing that is about 5x5x5. I will have them free range most of the day. My most important questions are these-


Do they need a perch at night?
Do they need a nest box?How many?
Do they need a certain temp?
How do I water them? What type of waterer?

Thanks everyone!!

 

[Justino]

omg i want a guini.....do they lay eggs everyday like chickens? how big r the eggs? r they louder than chickens and can they live with em?

 

[Marlinchaser]

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YES, the higher the better, mine, and seems that most that have the option roost in the rafters.



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Not really, they do not lay all year like a chicken so for 70% of the year it would just be wasted space. And unless you lock them up while laying they will find elsewhere to lay anyways

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They need same as new chicks 90-95 then drop 5 degrees a week till feathered out.

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They will drink from a regular chick/poultry waterer.

 

[Marlinchaser]

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NO

about the size of a bantie egg

just a LITTLE louder compare the noise level of a car and an Airplane, that is the LITTLE.

Yes but it can get tricky

 

[MissPrissy]

Marlin, I have the jumbo pearl. My eggs are the same size as a medium to large chicken egg.

I don't have experience with a lot of the different varieties so I can't say if the pearls I have are the only ones to lay a larger egg. I only know that mine lay an egg equal to my large breed chicken's eggs.

 

[speckledhen]

Thanks, Dennis. I may have to take you up on that if I get a broody in the spring. (BTW, hope your daughter liked that quilt!)

 

[Marlinchaser]

this is pic of guinea eggs compared to a Leghorn egg, the one on the left is from a bantam cochin.

mine are pearl, just not jumbo, I didnt know that was an option when I got them.

 

[chicken_angler]

Thanks for the quick responses!

Just one more question.
Will i need waterers placed out in the yard for them while they are free ranging? If so will they be alright with like a cat waterer? I cant get a new waterer for a few days so that is going to have to work.

Thanks!!!!!

 

[speckledhen]

I think it's good to have water for them outside since they may not come back to the coop while roaming during the day. I always did.

 

[Marlinchaser]

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Any type of waterer will do, they drink out of my ducks pond, or a mudd puddle if it rains, the whole fresh water thing is overblown. I give mine fresh water 2-3 times a day, but my grandmother just added water to a trough that probably only got dumped once or twice a month, and they lived just fine. Yes it looks better than to think they are drinking "dirty" water, but in the wild they would drink what is available.