Keeping Guinea Fowl - 3 Tips for Urban Guinea Fowl
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- čas přidán 3. 07. 2024
- Don't get guinea fowl, they said. Too loud. Too flighty. I got them anyway....
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My neighbor down the road used to have approx. 15, it was annoying to hear them because they were locked up. The neighbor must have gotten sick of them and just turned them loose. They have been coming to my house every morning and go home every night for the last 5 years, but are down to 3 left :( I'm pretty sure I am the only one in the neighborhood that doesn't use insecticides. I've fallen in love with them and I'm going to build them a shelter and hope they decide to stay. They are much quieter at my house and follow me to my garden and chicken coop. I think they want in my chicken coop/run since they are always getting on top of it. My chickens are only allowed out when they are supervised but seem to get along with the guineas. They are the funniest little birds to watch.
Any updates?
@@laneyperkins840 a Great Horned Owl got one of the males but I got the other two in my coop last winter. I let them out in the spring and covered an area that keeps them safe from owls at night. One is a lavender female, who we named Pearl and the other is a male. I think he is a Buff Dundottee, who we call Mudpie. Pearl is definitely the brains of the two. They see me and come running and they chase my truck as I leave. I'm sure they'll want back in the coop when the weather turns cold. I am so happy they stuck around. Thanks for asking!
@@wickedtreefarm6914 Guineas have poor night vision and owls are said to sidle up to them on a branch and bump them off and as they start flying they are snatched. Sad.
Solid tips, thank you. I'm a couple months in with my guinea attempt. First round was an almost total failure. Successfully managed to load about ten just hatched chicks under a broody hen, who accepted them. Days 1 - 3 were great.... then they got out of the coop through tiny openings and got lost as each one would try to track down the wayward chick, could not find home at night. Rest was history, save for just one guinea chick who survived and stayed with her foster mother hen. Second attempt: brooded a new batch for a couple weeks with our rabbits fully indoors, then moved them to their own enclosure in the chicken run with a grow light. Kept them cooped for a month and now they're out and integrated with the flock. Homing in on their own enclosure at night and so far so good. What's cool is the one guinea who survived the first run now moves confidently between the guineas and her chicken flock, broods with the guineas some nights, some nights next to her foster mother.
We raised our guinea foul along side a male giant brown turkey. They where all hatched the same day and raised together.
We never needed to clip the guinea Hens wings because the turkey is to fat to fly & they won’t leave him. As long as he’s in the coop they’ll wonder my whole yard but always put themselves away when he calls. It’s amazing how loyal they are to the turkey. We also no longer need to close our coop at night. Between the giant turkey and the three guinea Hens we have not had a raccoon problem since introducing them to our flock.
Prior to introducing them to our flock we where losing at least 3 hens a years.
great info. thanks for sharing this
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Let one at a time out....so that they come back each night and learn it’s their home. Each day let out a new one then once u have let them all out, they come back easier.
When you have 60 birds the alarm calls can be deafening. Make an effort to keep them in a calm environment if you are in an urban area. They have a tendency to riot when unexpected events occur, such as a snake entering their territory, or a strange vehicle coming up the driveway. Their riots always bring a smile to my face, as I don’t have to worry about anything catching me unawares. Lol.
Omg I just got 2 keets and I'm racking my brain trying to figure out how to keep them in the yard when their adults thanks for posting this
Good luck! Guinea fowl are great!
Mine just stayed, decides to stick around and hang with the chickens
Thank you for the tips!
This has got to be the best video on Guinea Fowl I've seen yet, many other ones show these guys as stressed, noisy, totally out of control racket makers, but yours are happy, well cared for and seem really chill. As a kid we had a bunch of them around the farm up here in Canada and I remember them as being pretty chill birds, I mean I also remember one or two of them flying away for absolutely no reason and I mean GONE like yesterday.. My wife and I are looking at maybe getting a few now that we are on a farm again
Thank you sir for sharing ideas about Guinea fowls
Hi While I was watching your video and the Guinea started to make their sound. My Guinea's started to go wild : ) .Mine are very quite so far and I am hoping for the hen to lay soon. Thank you for the ,tips. all my very best.
They are such beautiful birds, and seem very content.
Thanks for sharing
Indeed they are
Thanks for sharing this knowledge!
Very helpful. Thanks so much. I actually love their call. They naturally occur on my farm here in South Africa. I do want to breed them though as watch animals.
How loud are they Chelle Lewis? I'm in the suburbs south of Joburg. I'm scared they'd be too noisy for the neighbours in the backyard
@@raycrou8837 I think perhaps they could be too loud for some in the suburbs. But you will find some people who love them. I know one guy who bought some when he moved to Australia because he miss them so much but the dingoes ate them all
Thanks for the tips. Guinea's are so funny and make great noises, (you should hear a fox alarm, it's unlike their normal squawks and much louder) the low level cheeping is so sweet. They also seem to eat any pest in your garden and I think are a real asset, their spotted markings are fantastic to look at.
They are also hard to sex and our single keet has just started to lay and when I sit in my garden chair she will fly up to my arm and get my icecream because, just like her foster mother, Talula the bantam, they have sweet-beaks and will do anything for it, thus a great training aid.
I also like your shed/hut especially the open gap brick wall which looks grand and you use less bricks.
All the best from Somerset.
Birds of the same feather really do flock together!!
I’m loving your frizzle chickens!!
I love the last 5 minutes sitting with the chicken is so relaxing. Thank you. 💜🌞🌵
It's super relaxing. I just sit down there with them all the time. :)
They are amazing birds.... my new flock of 17 were in their coup during winter, so they got used to their home - now they go out all day roaming, eating ticks and bugs, then they all put themselves back in their coop before sunset. I don't clip wings at all, as it is important for them to be able to fly up and escape dogs or other predators if they need to. They don't fly much like birds at all, they go straight up and land on a branch or structure, or they use the wind and soar to get distance. I've never seen one flying for more than 15 seconds... usually it's a short, sharp flight.
Very informative, thanks for this particular video. I've kept chooks for 30 years or so but never GF's - and although I've wanted to, I haven't. I've also had many roosters over the years and although my semi-suburban garden looks to be about 20 times longer than yours (and wider), I've had anonymous neighbours posting letters to me that I had to share with the police. As we're the longest-serving family in our road I feel particularly aggravated by their behaviour and will continue to keep chooks - and a house-rooster for the rest of my days. The police have been supportive on these occasions but my anonymous neighbours have put me off keeping fowl like GF's and turkeys. My flocks are always about 15 or so in size and add so much value to my life. Every one's a character and needless to say, my neighbours do not get a single egg. MY form of protest!
Love it good job 😂
Waw well done bro👏🏽 keep it up❤
Been chasing my Guineas around the neighborhood for months. They were rescues. Last two of the flock who kept being eaten by some predator so we took them. Such a pain. Also their wing feathers grow back really fast so already having to catch and clip again. The lady next door works from home. She hates us 😂
Excellent tips.. thanks for ur knowledge
Thanks for watching, Dilwar.
Very helpful thankyou
Thanks for doing this video. I want guineas when we buy property, but was worried about the noise being annoying.
I've started to look forward to the last 5 minutes just sitting with the birds and the garden. Especially on days that I'm stuck in bed. 💜🌞🌵
Suzi SaintJames it’s the best medicine 💕
But how to get the bed to the coop/ Run ?? Similar issues. For me Thanks Suzi St James
This sounds about right .
Hello Geoff, great tips and so very tempting.
For one day in the far away future, I’m thinking Guinea Fowl eggs under a broody chicken. 🤔
Today I’m binge watching, so on to the next video
Best hatch them with an incubator.
Or remove the guinea keets from the hen once hatched.
I do not recommend raising the keets with chickens. It causes the keets to imprint on the chickens and once they are mature they will not recognize that the chickens are not guineas. Everything can seem to be going great right up until the first breeding season at which time the guinea's inherited instincts and behaviors take over and can cause extreme stress to the chickens.
I love your hen They are beautiful.
You farm is so nice and very good paining I 👍
love your flock
I have 6 chickens and my orpington was broody. I got some guinea eggs from a friend and two hatched. I kept them in a cage for 6 weeks then put them in the coop and they've been fine. The chickens aren't bothered by them. 11.5 weeks old now. They are so strange and amusing I love them. I let them out in the backyard for an hour a day. They have flown on the top of my house once but they came down when I called them. I hope I can keep them when they mature. Still not sure what gender they are.
very soon they will fiy on top ofur hse and u would not see them again,trust me.
OG Fowl in da house!
I love the polish hens
They always sound like they're screaming "come back, come back, come back"
that's true. we raised our chicks with keets
Good job
Hi can you please do more on quails. I have lont a lot from your video so thank you
This is exactly what I was thinking about. I'm a retired professional dog trainer and saw another homestead couple that raised them with chickens. I'm excited to get them to help eat bugs in the yard.
I do plan to get keets and clip wings, raise with chickens. I like your suggestion of desensitization around pets, etc.
We have guineas wild on the farm in Indiana. We don’t feed them they just forage. They are the same color as you pets. Most around here are purple.
Thanks for the video! What sort of chicken is the cream bird? With the almost 'ruffled' feathers? Are the Frizzles?
This is great tips. I actually was hatching chicks with my keets but the incubator I borrowed from a friend. Was all weird and basically boiled the chicken eggs. But mine is what I had the keets in... So sadly no chickens for me. But I have raised keets before and mine have always turned out pretty tame. And stayed around. I hope this time these babies will be the same
I have watched a fair few videos over the last two days, since I brought a pair of keets from the bird show. Your video is best video in every aspect. Thank you for sharing. A new follower from PEI 🇨🇦.
Thanks so much. I appreciate that!
Yes... Clip guinea fowl wings at night, take them from their roost and clip them then put them back on their roost... Also raise baby guinea fowl with a turkey or goose that doesn't fly so they are less tempted to fly away, they will be loyal to stay near the ducks or turkeys
there was one in my yard today
I bought 2 chicks and raised them inside until they were big enough to be put in the chicken coop. I see a lot of people with good luck mixing chickens and guinea's but my 2 I had just attacked the chickens none stop. Gave up on them and re homed them.
Thanks. You are the only ones with really useful guinea videos! I am starting out having had just chickens for some years. Now I have 3 turkey poults, one peahen and one guinea fowl (hopefully it will be a hen).
I had two guinea chicks but three aggressive Barred Rock chicks killed one! So, I just have one chick left.
So, questions:
Is one going to be OK or should I see if I can find another somewhere (It is almost June and that will not be easy).
Is there a video on how to clip the wings?
I am getting them from the farm store. That is what I can do now rather than incubate. I will see if it works. Where will they lay if they are kept in? Will they use chicken nest boxes?
Will they sit on the same roosts the chickens use?
Will they fight with other animals like chickens, goats,our traveling peahen?
If one is a male, will it try to mate with a turkey poult or a chicken? Do they mate like a chicken and turkey or do they penetrate like a duck? (I want the hens to be safe)
czcams.com/video/3uHk41zPFOg/video.html how to clip their wings. We do both wings
I want to keep some with my ducks that I let in my garden.
my cats went crazy at 5:00 🤣
I have 3 ginue fowls....at my home..❤️😍❤️
I had a wonderful chicken that went broody and I didn't need any chicks at the time so I put seven guinea fowl eggs under her and she sat on them for about a week and then she moved to another nest box with chicken eggs in them. I don't know if it was on accident. I don't think so because she has always use that same nest box when she sets I think she didn't like the guinea eggs because they were different. I live out in the country and I only have three guinea and they travel about a half a mile radius from my house every day, but they continue to come back to roost in my tree and eat .I love those birds, but they will never stay put!!
I'm thinking of getting 2 for my kids... might need to look at getting my mums chocks to move here too, I've brought movable runs for cats I'm hoping will do the trick in keeping them in my yard, they just click together and easy to move around the yard... do you think this will work
Good
You need to trim the hair around the eyes of the Silkie in the corner
Please I have a question,
Can a guinea flow still lay eggs and hatch if the feathers are peal off or cut constantly ?
(peal off or cut so that thay won't away)
Thanks for your answer.
I have 9 keets 1 month old. They escaped and I had a hellish time catching them. I’m almost afraid to keep them now it was so hard and they’re still small!
They're older now, so this might help someone else. Most people advise keeping them in their pen for two or three months to get them used to "home" before letting them out during the day. They are sweet creatures, but they aren't domesticated, and their territory, the DEC agent told me, is a 25 mile radius if they don't know where "home" is. Or maybe if they do!
I am new to guineas fowl, we are going to hatch some in incubator with some duck eggs. We got about 100 pheasant eggs in incubator now. We are going to keep anout 20 pheasant in large pen. My son wants to get eggs from them and do the cycle of breeding every year. I was wondering if the guineas will go with the pheasant in the pen with them, mainly at night. We will let them free roam during the day
Hi, I wanted to know if they eat voles and if they eat fruit trees? Thanks.
Hi, I currently have chickens, ducks and geese, I was very interested in getting guinea fowl and purchased 8 x 2 day old keets today, now after reading online that they can be aggressive I’m concerned that I’ll have an issue with them when they’re older attacking my current chickens, I can go get some day old chicks tomorrow to raise with them in order to address the issue of them running away
At what weeks age should you clip their wings?
Thanks for the awesome video! I’m keen to raise some keets with chicks and house in our chicken tractor on an acreage with horses and dogs, we would do introductions etc (have good dogs). I want them mainly for tick and snake protection so keen for free ranging but would raise as pets when young especially as you suggest, to keep them at home if possible. Would any of you suggest keeping a certain number? And male or female, or mixed? I assume they can’t breed with hens so we won’t get chicks? We will take care with predators with a lock up coop at night from wild dogs etc. Going to plan this very carefully!
I would definitely have at least a male female pair. We’ve got just two and they’re inseparable. The female is the pain though and the male follows her out the fence and on the roof all the time lol
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Can you raise quails along with these?
How old were they when you 1st clipped the wings?
5:17 Not Bad; Not Bad; Not Bad; Not Bad; Not Bad...
I live close to a road. Should I give it a go?
do ducks have a pond
How did it go in the long term with the Guineas? I'm in the process of getting them and my plan was to put the eggs under our broody chicken, then a week later put some chicken eggs underneath so they hatch at the same time and can all be raised by our broody lady. A lot of people on backyardchickens have said that guineas raised / imprinted on chickens become aggressive when it comes to breeding season the following year, a few have said that raising them together makes it easier. Just wondering what your experience has been?
What is your experience now?
Hi have guinea fowl and was wondering are you supposed clip there nails
!(: COOL, THANKS ;)!
What's that breed of chicken with the fuzzy crown ?
How to hact the egg of Guinea fowls
My biggest worry is them flying away
Do they all eat the same food though, as different species??
At 1:20 into the video you have a brown/black hen. What is this breed?
Will they grow more
What are the brown ducks in the back called?
Theyre khaki Campbells
Can you show me a male and a female guinea fowl so I can see the different..thank you
A white African guinea hen showed up in my yard one day. I have no idea where she came from - I'm guessing a farm or homestead within a few miles of my house. She can fly and clucks quite a lot, especially early in the morning and right before dark. I've been feeding her and I don't think my neighbors are very happy about it but I don't want to see anything bad happen to her. I wonder if she's clucking to call for other fowl? Any advice is helpful!
Spookylady Get a few more. She will be happier for sure!
@@truthseeker6384 I wish she was mine! It's been a few months now and Miss G, as I call her, is still around. She seems to have been visiting other parts of my neighborhood but she is at my house a couple of days a week. She clucks less now. I wish I could find her flock/home/owner. She seems perfectly happy to be living here in my area.
@@lmbarak Is Miss G, still around? lol
@@seanbryan1739 Unfortunately, no. Someone driving down my street hit her with their car. Thankfully I wasn't home when it happened. My neighbor who also loved Miss G and fed her buried her in his back yard. :(
I want to hatch some keets but next door has two cats, will the cats attack the Guineas when they are fully grown?
I would say probably no. However, if your guineas aren't used to the cats they will alarm call every time they see them - which could get quite annoying for you!
One question I have is if I hatch my own if I get a male would it get along with a rooster or would they fight and also would they mate with the hens
Q City My two males fought each other, and divided up the ladies between them. Then one spring day, the two tribes took off in separate directions, and only one tribe returned.
How do you clip their wings?
Just the first few inches of flight feathers on one wing only. Flight feathers are easy to identify, they are at the end of the wing and comprise about half the width of the wing. Run a pair of scissors along the obvious line where the flight feathers go under the rest of the wing-depth feathers. On an adult bird you'd take about 4-6 inches off and again only from one wing. This procedure does not harm the bird in any way but makes flight unstable so they decide against taking off. You need to clip a couple of times a year or so and NEVER cut shorter than the feathers the flight feathers disappear under. If you see blood, You've gone way too far. Good luck!
Dog may hunt them ?
How much for each
What do you feed guinea keets and adult guineas?
They have a mix of layers pellets, fermented grains, greens and then are very good at catching their own insects too.
"No louder than roosters" Hahahaha!...
How can I cut wing.
Take the primary feathers off...not the actual wing. So cut the long feathers at the bottom of the wing away on one side.
Question, how do you care for them in the winter and how do you clip their wings?
Just feed them faithfully, keep fresh water in their cage (maybe with a water heater, if it's freezing out. Some people have clipped their wings, but flying away allows them to escape predators.
Have 1 guinea out of coop
How do I catch?
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Do you have any experience with Chinese Painted Quails?
A little. Anything I can help with?
Brimwood Farm I was curious as to how many hens I can keep to one rooster? I was thinking 4:1?
bro, you also have ducks
why not some turkeys and geese
and and and.... are all of them females
Hello brother I am from india can you send them to india
wont be long now before I get a couple of chickend. I don't expect to be returning to work....................brian
That's great! Look forward to seeing some chickens on your channel :)
At what age gunieas mature and lay eggs ..i have a pair of one year age not laying eggs..:(
Similar to chickens, so 9 months-ish. Do you certainly have females?
vamsi krishna Gunisetti guineas start laying eggs at 15 weeks of age.
The minimum amount of guineas to obtain is 10, I advise you get some more.
This info is very wrong I’m afraid.
I do not recommend raising guinea keets with chickens as It causes the keets to imprint on the chickens and once they are mature they will not recognize that the chickens are not guineas. Everything can seem to be going great right up until the first breeding season at which time the guinea's inherited instincts and behaviors take over and can cause extreme stress to the chickens.
I appreciate your insights. Mine have been no problem at all with the chickens, but perhaps because I only have three and not a flock? Good to know others experiences.
We raised or guineas along side or chooks and it has worked out great. The key is to have enough space. We have a large poultry yard so everyone has enough space.
I ended up shooting all of my fowls after I found out they are relentlessly noisy..
Anyone thinking about getting guineas, needs to think about their neighbors. I lived peacefully for 17 years in my house, before my ignorant neighbor decided he wanted a flock of guineas. Now, every day at 2:30 or 3:00, the screaming starts. Nobody within 1/2 mile can sleep when these nuisance birds start calling. You may be cool with the noise, but your neighbors will likely not see it that way. These birds need to be eradicated.
Guinea fowls mingle with the chicken flock
They'll let them pick ticks
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