Which BYC member scares you?

[Isadora]

How many eggs were alive?

6. Initially I set 30 and only 7 were good. Got rid of a quitter a few days ago.

 

[MACCanadianCoop]

They're so fun. This one is quick to hide behind the cage when I go in the coop. He's super quick.

Do you keep your guineas and chickens in the same coop?

 

[Isadora]

Do you keep your guineas and chickens in the same coop?

I do. Having a large coop and an automatic door had been key to making it work. Plus they all free range so the guineas typically go off looking for bugs and don't bother the chickens.

 

[Everose]

I do. Having a large coop and an automatic door had been key to making it work. Plus they all free range so the guineas typically go off looking for bugs and don't bother the chickens.

Mine totally bother the chickens. Won't leave em alone. They're following them around wherever they go. My fatso baby runs up to me like "Mommy I really gotta make a number three but the croods are watching"

 

[Isadora]

Mine totally bother the chickens. Won't leave em alone. They're following them around wherever they go. My fatso baby runs up to me like "Mommy I really gotta make a number three but the croods are watching"

Aw, poor things.
Really the only accommodations I've had to make for the guineas is having feeding troughs inside the coop and out. The guineas like to eat outside and drive away any chickens that try to eat out of that trough. So the chickens just go inside and eat out of the trough in there.

 

[MACCanadianCoop]

So what you're both saying is guineas are jerks

 

[Everose]

Aw, poor things.

Ya, I imagine it's like having the booger eating kid tag along with you and your friends on the kindergarten playground

Really the only accommodations I've had to make for the guineas is having feeding troughs inside the coop and out. The guineas like to eat outside and drive away any chickens that try to eat out of that trough. So the chickens just go inside and eat out of the trough in there.

Mine don't steal food. They just shadow.

 

[Isadora]

So what you're both saying is guineas are jerks

The are to other poultry. I love watching them interact with each other, though. Flock dynamics are very interesting with guinea fowl.

 

[Everose]

So what you're both saying is guineas are jerks

Definitely not. They're babies. One of mine was smashed by a mac truck and all his buddies cried and looked for him until I showed them what happened. They worship the ground my chickens walk on.

 

[electrycmonk]

Definitely not. They're babies. One of mine was smashed by a mac truck and all his buddies cried and looked for him until I showed them what happened. They worship the ground my chickens walk on.

I “liked” for the effort to show them that one passed & that the chickens have apparently a good balance with them.

I have a similar pattern with our “pack” of dogs as well as the flock when one dies. Give them time to see & say goodbye to the one that passed away.