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    Can Guinea fowl live alone on the wild?

    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...
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    Deworming guineas

    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 😫
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    Female or male guinea fowl as indoor pet?

    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...
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    Widowed single male lost his lifelong female

    Thank you so much, hon! No females around hood unless I get one. Here's his one friend, a Grackle that comes daily to spend time with Guinea Lee!💙
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    Widowed single male lost his lifelong female

    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...
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    Sad 😥 News from City Guineas

    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...
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    Free Ranging

    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...
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    What can I give my Guinea fowl for treats?

    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...
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    Raising Guinea Fowl 101

    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...
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    Raising Guinea Fowl 101

    Thank you so much, my friend!!! I so appreciate your kind help!
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    Raising Guinea Fowl 101

    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...
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    Raising Guinea Fowl 101

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    Raising Guinea Fowl 101

    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...
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    Raising Guinea Fowl 101

    Weird, muy Guinea fowl poop has no odor and is ez to wash away in grass with waterhose...kinda like pieces of chewed gum, normally!
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    Raising Guinea Fowl 101

    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...
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    Raising Guinea Fowl 101

    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...
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    Raising Guinea Fowl 101

    As they say, no animal problems in life, just people problem s. I am proof of that!
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    Raising Guinea Fowl 101

    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...
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    Raising Guinea Fowl 101

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    Raising Guinea Fowl 101

    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
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