Notes from Dr. Borkosky

One good tip for when you do start letting them out: only let half of them out to roam at a time, as it’s the perfect encouragement for the roaming birds to return to the noise of the flock. Some of the stupid things they do… run the fence line evidently forgetting they flew over the fence to get in and can fly over it to get back out. I was hoping to read it got better but I’m now to the opinion OFF with their HEADS, they are so nasty and noisy. I always figured that I had 1 male and 3 females. Can they fly fly or can they only fly to say fence height?

Where do u buy ur birds from local breeders or online???? But this is happening BEFORE DAWN! It is a matter of patience and respect for the breed of animal and the willingness to educate oneself on how to work with them. I do this because they will let me know if intruders are bothering my chickens. Well all birds are territorial when they have eggs. I had two with chickens and turkeys. So why do people who have them (truly FREE ranging) attest to having no ticks?

I wouldn’t take ANYTHING for my guineas! Apparently they visited her daily … crazy birds. They were bought grown-up.

Go out with 5 and come back with 3. Several died from old age, several died from being on the roadway, a few died from owls grabbing them off their roost at night in the trees. Maybe if you have a full flock they are. It’s almost seems like they don’t even recognize me while the chicken and turkeys do (and are sweet on the whole). where are you located? You are absolutely correct about their stupidity. OMG they are the dumbest birds in EXISTENCE! We love our guineas and will always be a part of our home, loud noise and all. And they don’t just bully birds — I have dogs come visiting my farm and the guineas will all line up on the fence line to the dog yard to heckle the dog. The chickens were terrified and featherless in many places. The meat – problem. Everything you say is true to some degree. If they have to interact or live with chickens, I suggest getting eggs or day old keats and raising them with chicks. What is this adopting barred rock chicken roosters and running with them putting their head in their feathers like they are their momma? And after much study I’ve decided they are NOT dumb, just overly aggressive for their size.

I live in the woods. I was worried we would have an explosion of ticks this year since the guineas were gone, but we still had next to none, so the chickens must be getting most of them. I guess if you get used to their calling, then the guineas aren’t much noise at all. . They are loud. We have 30 acres of ours to roam and several hundred acres of our neighbors property to roam around us. But I actually suggest searching for a local source. After seeing our chickens being bullied and picked on continuously, we decided that we couldn’t be so cruel, so we found a new home for the guinea trio. Ours has a house too.

We’ve purchased full grown ones, half grown ones, babies and hatched our own. And wow are they ever protective.

I’ll start with I only have 2…but they were raised with a group of 7 chicks and mine are great! This website and the articles it contains are for informational purposes only. They are a challenge and often even difficult. They were well imprinted on me, and each other, and “home.” Yes – they roam off property (but come running back when I call for the dogs). I wouldn’t say they are stupid. I trained mine to come when I call them and stay out of the woods and off the asphalt out front in the road!! Coyotes are extremely intelligent, opportunistic, shrewd, and nocturnal.

I have four Guinness and they are in a coop with my chickens. I don’t want to upset the balance. I put so much work into them, my keets are trained, i went to school for animal behavior, so i control animals by altering behaviors, and the Guineas are no different. It sounds like Sarah has had some pretty rotten luck with guineas, which I’m sorry to hear. Guineas before I got them a year ago and had no poultry keeping experience but I had worked with countless wild birds at the refuges I’ve worked for and knew good and well any wild bird can be tamed rather easily by taking the time to gain their trust and learn how to communicate with them. They all get a long just fine. There have been no studies published in Turkey showing that guineas do eat ticks, and some guineas in Turkey carry a lot of ticks. They are endlessly fun to watch, have helped tremendously with the tick situation, give us great manure, and are FAR less persistently loud and for shorter distances than lawnmowers, leaf blowers, airplanes, road ways and back-up beeping. I might want them now just to see how stupid they are! I think that type of guinea behavior is part of the reason that some folks call them stupid. They are in a 100ft by 100 ft fenced area with the 11 hens and the rooster….they don;t seem to have wanderlust.. Something interesting that happened was her eggs that she laid. I have recently added two to our chickens and yes, they are very mean to my bantams and my big girls but they have taken up with my Barred Rock and just love him to pieces. When we added the young birds- both guinea and chicken- to our mature flock the usual fight for top bird began. But I’m going to get some eggs to incubate and then rear them here as I think that is the best way to naturalise them. How does the meat taste and how much feed do they need ro bring them to slaughter weight. These birds are monogamous and mate for life, like us and eagles. I love my guineas they have a lot of character. I have 1 guinea now I had 2 but one of them got killed by a raccoon protecting my prized silkie hen named Avatar. That was all.

Hubby built a separate coop for the guineas. When the neighbours’ 20 odd guinea fowl first came onto the property, at first we had no idea what they were. Two of my neighbors have guineas and they wander back and forth across the road. They protest the sight of the birds with extreme enthusiasm! We took the plunge into guinea fowl about a year ago, and boy was it an eye-opening experience. As soon as the guineas were big enough to let roam with the others I have not seen that fox a single time (he usually comes out all hours of the day). They are sooo noisey!! I remember I couldn’t ever sleep in, and they were a pain to get in at night. We all have fairly large parcels of 5 to 10 acres. The Guinea Fowl Color Genetics I tried to keep them on our side but the male would follow her. I would 100% get guinea fowl. Morons! It helped that their brooder was inside by the kitchen, so every day they were with us. I have dogs come herding in my pastures and there will be a line of animals — sheep, dog, heckling guineas — going everywhere, until the dog finally loses its nerve and runs for its handler.

Basically the only thing I agree about in this post is that they are loud. Telling me about the things they do. Now that there’s only six, I’ve reintegrated them with the chickens. I enjoyed your post. :) Since we’ve moved 6 months ago I’ve been living in a apartment and have been severely poultry deprived. When I was a child, our dog ate part of a large dead grasshopper that was in the yard a day after my dad sprayed insecticide. I can’t imagine my homestead without them. I live in rattlesnake country and I love this guinea trait! Kandis, The Males peck them to say “I’m the boss don’t even try to mess with me!” and to make them stay in the nestbox so if a predator came by, they all would still be in the nestbox and wouldn’t come out and get eaten. I will always own guineas, they are one of my favorite animals. Sometimes they come back, but they won’t come to me or willingly let me help them back to the coup.

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