San Antonio TX, here!🥰
The hawks, Mexican eagles target them during the day, and even though I have huge safe coop my male is trained to return to at night- those big Barn Owls DO try to take them out! Even when secured in coop, I have seen the owl land on top of coop, trying to figure out how...
I never knew you had to deworm Guinea fowl!!
I had 2 for 6 yrs, u til spring, when a dog killed my female!
Keep the coup clean, etc, but have never dewormed! Male 6 yrs now, healthy & happy except for missing his life mate.
Now I am worried 😫
1 Neighbor was a problem when I "inherited" my Guineas!
Believe me, it doesn't get better 🙏🏼😭 After 6 yrs, my Guineas FINALLY trained( because they want to make me happy, not due to anything I did, but talk to them a lot- but that's just the personality of these particular birds!) them to come...
Hello from San Antonio!
I had 2 coup trained Guinea fowl, one male, one female - for 5 years. Sadly, my female passed this spring. My male is well trained to stay within my yard and back neighbor,coup trained to come in at night. But he is still grieving. I don't want a female due to egg...
My original Guineas- pearl Rosie & Lee were raised from tiny babies. They're 5 or so.
2 years ago they had two white babies- Sid n Vicious.
The pearls were great parents- esp the Daddy, Lee. They lived peacefully, healthier than I thought was possible.Even survived the Texas Blizzard thanks to...
Hello from sunny SanAntonio !
Here's my update on my now 4 yr old Guinea couple, Lee n Rosie...and now, 2 keats!
I want to thank you for your wonderful advice regarding coop training.
My adults were never coop trained, but once my white, blue eyed keats arrived( despite my best effort at being...
Hello from San Antonio! Rosie and Lee are still safely in coop (Gitmo)for training...week 3!
So far so good...Rosie laying an egg a day again!
They are quiet, seem content as we form up fence in yard...Lee, the 2 yr old Male, is very much a people pleaser! He was first to learn his name, to...
Oh, BTW- I was only anxious about Rosie laying an egg for her health!
I do NOT want any keets (according to all I have read - and last year's experience- that doesn't seem to be a worry...I also don't eat eggs, and neighbors love the Guinea s, ( except the one notable exception!) But no one is...
I had no idea! Thank you for sharing that!
I am so happy her 1st egg is now here, big, pretty and perfect! She is, they're both calm, content inside coop- they allowed me to roll it gently with a tree liimb- under there direction, of vourse- under the sanctity of their inner house coop wooden...
City Guineas update!
2yr old Rosie and Lee- on week 2 of coop confinement in new coop- were agitated today for 1st time!!! Pacing, crying...watered them down, as our first heatwave has hit...still unhappy.Went to visit neighbor, came home- and there was Rosie's 1st egg!!! Right at coop door...
Hi my friends, from my San Antonio backyard! My 2yrs Guineas, Rosie n Lee, have now been safely cooped for nearly 2 weeks- and they're NOT happy! Rosie esp! She hasn't laid any eggs yet- understandable after the adventure that forced me to coop train them!
As long as I am out on patio they seem...
Oh, I forgot to mention that it was my sweet Dad in law- who raises chickens- that gave me Rosie and Lee, as therapy for being so lost in grief. While I can't pet them, I do believe that they regard me with as much affection- almost- as I do them.They are calm as I sit out here on patio with...
Thank you so very much for your help! My Guineas, Rosie and Lee turned 2 in Dec. They were preceded by Gypsy, a free ranging Male that wandered into our neighborhood 5 years ago.After my parents died, and Gypsy mostly fed and slept in my backyard- while all the hood loved him( except for the...
Oh my, I had no idea!!! Ok, I appreciate your kind info- that I have been feeding them poorly for 2 years...but what specifically is best to buy them?
I will go to feed store if need be...thanks so much, -Lisa, Rosie n Lee's human