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guinea fowl

It can be annoying at times, but you either choose to embrace it, or guineas aren’t your cup of tea.I was not prepared for how great of watchdogs these birds were going to be for our homestead.We don’t have a lot of predators around our homestead, but we did have a stray dog problem.We tried everything to catch them in the act but never had any luck. Guinea fowl become tamer when allowed to interact with chickens.I’m not sure if you’ve noticed, but chickens know when they are off of their turf.

Jennifer is a full-time homesteader who started her journey in the foothills of North Carolina in 2010. Come back,” while the roosters make a “Chi chi chi” sound.This is the main way you can tell your males and females apart.Not only do they converse a lot, but they do it loudly.Guineas are loud creatures.

If you blow it, you won’t catch them that night.Then you have to grab them by their wings. They sit on our fence posts with ease.If something scares them, they’ll just fly right over it.I’ve even seen my guineas walking back from my mother-in-law’s house which is across from our house.They got tired of walking up the driveway, so they just flew from the bottom of our driveway over our house, and into the farthest corner of our backyard with no problem.I was not aware of this when we got them.

Each sex has a different call which can be used to differentiate between female and male. They live in semi-open habitats such as savanna or semideserts, while some, such as the black guineafowl, mainly inhabit forests. They require a brooder box and starter feed.They need to be protected from the wind and kept warm for the first few weeks.Our first go-round with guineas we raised day old keets. They will take over the neighbor’s yard if they so desire.When we first got our guineas, they not only took over our yard and chicken coop but our neighbor’s too. Young guineafowl (called keets) are very sensitive to weather, in particular cold temperatures. If you grab them by their leg, they’ll whip around on you and actually break it.That is why it is best to grab them by their wings or just use a net and catch the whole bird at once.When you have to catch them be prepared to laugh at yourself. We have since cleared a lot of it in order to homestead, but we still had a pest problem.We had ticks everywhere and every year we had to do battle in our garden because of June Bugs.Our middle son came in one day with a giant tick on him. We actually use a net, so we don’t hurt them.Guinea fowl have really delicate legs. It has a white, featherless face, bright red wattles, and gray polka-dotted feathers. We would release a new guinea about every day or so.Because they won’t leave each other, they had to keep coming home to roost.By the time all of our guineas were released, they knew that this was home.This is what you’ll need to do whether you raise them from keets or not.Giving them a coop with food, water, and roosts will entice them to come home every day more so than if you just let them roost in the trees.They are also seasonal layers. When guinea parents (who already roost in a coop) raise their own keets, the hen will set on them outdoors during the night, but then the parents will teach the keets to also go into the coop in the evenings at approximately 3 weeks of age. Guinea fowl, any of a family, Numididae (order Galliformes), of African birds that are alternatively placed by some authorities in the pheasant family, Phasianidae. They will roost in the trees.However, if you want them to come home and roost then they’ll need a coop.If you decide to start with keets, you raise them basically as you would a baby chick or duckling. Currently, she spends her days gardening, caring for her orchard and vineyard, raising chickens, ducks, goats, and bees. Once hatched and ready to leave the brooder (approx. They prefer to nest on the ground instead of nesting boxes as chickens do. They can use their wings to help them slightly hop to high places, but they don’t soar.It is nothing for our guinea fowl to fly on top of our house. It takes guineas about 26-28 days to hatch a full clutch. They were right.But no one ever told me how funny guineas are to watch.When they shuffle up and down the driveway looking for bugs, it is an adorable sight.Watching a guinea outsmart a cat and then running it off is a funny sight.Guineas just add one more funny thing to watch while you are out on a homestead.

The more feedback you give us, the better our pages can be.Stay tuned for the first newsletter in the morning, straight to your inbox. She enjoys working on DIY remodeling projects to bring beauty to her homestead in her spare times.That is what many people ask when they first pull into a homestead to see these birds shuffling around.We took the plunge into guinea fowl about a year ago, and boy was it an eye-opening experience.Don’t get me wrong, I have grown to love our guineas very much, but it has taken some serious getting used to.This is why I wanted to share with you a list of things I wish someone had told me before bringing them home.Chickens are very domesticated birds.

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