Thank you so much for this! You mean to be locked in the coup for weeks, not let outside then at night, right?! Or let them out during the day and then lock them up at night for several weeks? That was my goal to start with, to put them inside at night, but hubby thought to let them free range...
Oh lordy... I'm a newbie as well. We got 6 guineas, lost 2... 3 males and 1 female. They had their own house within the chicken and baby ducks run. We got them this past spring, so they are young.... I have 1 chicken that is scared for her life from them, (took me days to figure out who was...