DIY How to Raise Guinea Fowl
Posted on June 2, 2010
Raising Guinea fowl at home is very easy. Watch this video to see our newest addition.
Raising Guinea fowl at home is very easy. Watch this video to see our newest addition.
June 2, 2010
Haha…You are the only person with a sense of humor on here!!!
Hahha……….Thanks for the comment!!!!!
June 2, 2010
Yes… Guineas and chickens eat mice. Head first….slurping tails last! YUM!
June 2, 2010
Well even with wings a dog killed one of my girls…..They need their wings so they can fly to safety !!!
My birds just go all over I have a couple acres and that is not no way near enough…People hate them too……My neigbors shot 3!!! I am down to 4 now……
.If you try to hold them like chicken’s they never mellow out.. I raised mine from babies.Their poop smells like people poop…NOT CHICKENS POOP. Chicken poop smells like cotton candy compaired to guinea poop……
June 2, 2010
I want to Have a few guinea. I am fine with them have free range but… I am affraid of them getting killed by one of the dogs that run free around here. (not my dogs) Is there a way to clip there wings and give them shorter to the ground areas to jump and perch on? I have just never had any before and I just dont’ want them getting hurt outside the garden area.(garden is huge) I am going to put there coop in there.
June 2, 2010
They are totally free range now & have been for 5 months.
They never leave …they go in the next door neigbors til the dog chases them back….All guniea can fly like birds but stay close to home…..Hawks don’t try to eat them…..the biggest preditor for chickens besides dogs……..Let the guineas free!!!!!!
If you have had them for at least 6 weeks…. Rick.
June 2, 2010
Thanks for subscribing. Do you let them out of the chicken tractor? Ours keep close to our chickens and we let them roam free but some people say they have a repution of wandering off if you don’t keep them penned in. We actually usually just put them in the garden which is enclosed and they keep to a fairly small area near the chicken pen. In the summer the two hens lay eggs nearly every day!
June 2, 2010
nice little enclosure you made there
June 3, 2010
They are eating turkey starter right now.
When I let them out they will be eating bugs & chicken feed.
June 3, 2010
also what do they eat if i may ask?
June 3, 2010
the keets? i give all mine to my uncle in north carolina. he’s got alot of tall grass…so that means alot of ticks. so he gladly takes all the keets every year. but i’ve had alot of people ask for them.
June 3, 2010
Ohhh noo!
June 3, 2010
Are they hard to get rid of?
June 3, 2010
we eat the eggs when we don’t need anymore keets.
June 3, 2010
i’ve got sooo many keets now. my hen had a bunch! the guineas plus the peacocks equals the LOUDEST alarm system ever!
June 3, 2010
They also are guard animals.
They make alot of noise when they see any movement of any kind.
Loud noise!
June 3, 2010
so guineas are only used for eating bugs and nothing else? tht kinda odd………