Who sells sexed keets?

[member 158781]

Hi, we've been very unlucky with getting females. First we had a huge flock where the eggs and females were stolen by someone so we only had males left. Then this spring we restarted a flock and ordered 15 guineas for our last remaining 2 male guineas. They gave us 14 males and 1 female. So our total was 17 guineas; 16 males and 1 female.
The neighbors apparently had a family of 6 raccoons on their property and my flock ran into them during the day. Result: Again, I only have 8 males left.
So again we ordered Guineas. We ordered 10 little white guineas.
USPS lost them for 2 days and when they arrived at the post office, they told me my Guineas had been put in with large boxes and were almost all dead.
In the end, no guineas could be saved.
The company is sending me new Guineas. So now I have to see if I'll have any females.
If again I only have 1 or 2 females, where oh where can I get females only? I hate to see the majority of my male guineas lacking females.
At night, all my Guineas are in a 24x24 ft coop in their own "bedroom" where they love to roost. So at night they run no risk. The coop is not finished yet. I have a concrete predator skirt on the inside but still have to do the same thing on the outside. And I still have to cover all the horizontal "seams" of the hardware cloth with 1x2 lats. I want to attach a rain barrel to the downspout and I need to install water in the coop so I don't have to walk through the garage to the other side of the house every morning. And last but not least: I need to add building sand to the middle of the area in the coop with building sand. During the day they free range on the property (and surroundings)
Which brings me to my second and last question: How can I make an attractive and safe area for a female in the coop to lay her eggs?
Thanks in advance for your answers, folks. stay safe.

 

[R2elk]

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Hi, we've been very unlucky with getting females. First we had a huge flock where the eggs and females were stolen by someone so we only had males left. Then this spring we restarted a flock and ordered 15 guineas for our last remaining 2 male guineas. They gave us 14 males and 1 female. So our total was 17 guineas; 16 males and 1 female.
The neighbors apparently had a family of 6 raccoons on their property and my flock ran into them during the day. Result: Again, I only have 8 males left.
So again we ordered Guineas. We ordered 10 little white guineas.
USPS lost them for 2 days and when they arrived at the post office, they told me my Guineas had been put in with large boxes and were almost all dead.
In the end, no guineas could be saved.
The company is sending me new Guineas. So now I have to see if I'll have any females.
If again I only have 1 or 2 females, where oh where can I get females only? I hate to see the majority of my male guineas lacking females.
At night, all my Guineas are in a 24x24 ft coop in their own "bedroom" where they love to roost. So at night they run no risk. The coop is not finished yet. I have a concrete predator skirt on the inside but still have to do the same thing on the outside. And I still have to cover all the horizontal "seams" of the hardware cloth with 1x2 lats. I want to attach a rain barrel to the downspout and I need to install water in the coop so I don't have to walk through the garage to the other side of the house every morning. And last but not least: I need to add building sand to the middle of the area in the coop with building sand. During the day they free range on the property (and surroundings)
Which brings me to my second and last question: How can I make an attractive and safe area for a female in the coop to lay her eggs?
Thanks in advance for your answers, folks. stay safe.

The only way to get sexed guineas is to buy adult guineas.

 

[member 158781]

Any idea who sells those adults?

 

[R2elk]

Any idea who sells those adults?

Check your local craigslist, Facebook and non-chain feed stores. Locally owned feed stores tend to know their customers and can put you in touch with local people that may have guineas.

 

[member 158781]

Yep. Tried that. That's when I got 14 males and 1 female. I guess I'm just going to hope that one of the new keets will be female and keep her with a male in a separate coop until I have enough eggs to hatch.