Re: Free Range Guineas?
[Re: HayDay]
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05/13/21 11:11 AM
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You are so right,they taste so good. Tom
If my feet aren't wet,I must not be trapping. Tom Olson MTA life member#100,also WTA life member
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Re: Free Range Guineas?
[Re: J.Morse]
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05/13/21 01:12 PM
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lee steinmeyer
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Kind like sheep....walking around looking for a place to die! All kidding aside, we have a bunch of them, and I like them. Mine have gotten pretty tame, and we put them in every night. If you let them out at night, the owls are the worst on them, and they will eat every one of them, so if you want to free range over night, don't waste your money! On top of that, they are not good moms. Just don't take care of business!
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Re: Free Range Guineas?
[Re: HayDay]
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05/13/21 01:23 PM
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I'm not a fan but they do eat bugs and get plenty noisy if anyone comes around
“What’s good for me may not be good for the weak minded.” Captain Gus McCrae- Texas Rangers
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Re: Free Range Guineas?
[Re: rszwieg]
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05/13/21 06:58 PM
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We had some when I was a kid. They became semiwild. They made nests and laid eggs in a neighbor's brushpile. Come fall I remember my dad started collecting them with a 410. Well at least one positive report.....they made it to Fall. I am beginning to see a downside.......if you also have chickens.....you are training your predators to come shopping at your place. Clean out the guineas and then start in on the chickens? Our neighbors probably won't care. Niece has an organic hippy mindset and is learning the hard way that mother nature has a mean streak.
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Re: Free Range Guineas?
[Re: USMC47 🦫]
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05/13/21 07:24 PM
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I have 5 of them running around the property. They do occasionally go to the neighbor but not often. They eat bugs all day long. They’re not as noisy as people sometimes believe they would be sometimes. They have quieted down as they have matured over the last 2 years. They choose to roost in the chicken coop with the chickens and always take the highest spot on the perches. That shows their not as dumb as a chicken! I'd take the high roost too, don't like to be shat on! lol
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Re: Free Range Guineas?
[Re: lee steinmeyer]
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05/13/21 11:53 PM
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I have 5 of them running around the property. They do occasionally go to the neighbor but not often. They eat bugs all day long. They’re not as noisy as people sometimes believe they would be sometimes. They have quieted down as they have matured over the last 2 years. They choose to roost in the chicken coop with the chickens and always take the highest spot on the perches. That shows their not as dumb as a chicken! I'd take the high roost too, don't like to be shat on! lol Hahaha! I spaced them out like steps so that wouldn’t happen. When I painted my chicken coop, a chicken brushed up against the wet paint and it still has the paint on it. I figured they’d trade out feathers here and there or something. Guess not. Lol. But I don’t like to be what on, either. I’m glad elephants don’t fly.
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Re: Free Range Guineas?
[Re: HayDay]
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05/14/21 12:24 AM
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Guineas work really well with livestock guardian and just good, old fashioned farm dogs. The dogs quickly learn that when the guineas yell, if they come running, they get the fun of killing something.
The best way to get guineas to stick and come in at night is to raise them with chickens. Train all your animals to a feed call. Feed the guineas and chickens a small amount, in the coop, when you want to lock them up.
You need to make sure the guineas can see the area and become accustomed to it before letting them out. I gave one friend of mine 36, day old guinea keets and another one 48, day old guinea keets. Both friends let the flocks out for the first time when the keets were pretty good sized. Both flocks walked off and were never seen again. Neither flock had a good view of the outside world.
Keith
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Re: Free Range Guineas?
[Re: HayDay]
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05/14/21 08:02 AM
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John, your Indian name is painted chicken! lol
Keith, late afternoon, My wife goes down to feed and gather eggs, and in her shrill voice gioes "guinea guinea guinea", and they. all come running! Throw a little cracked corn in their pen, and they file in, every evening, and it'll be two hours or more before dark. Chickens don't go in near that good!
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