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I’ve seen that a number of BYCs posters have purchased fancy colored keets from Guinea Farm and other hatcheries over the past few years. I am wondering if you think these GF keets/adults behave differently than your established free range flocks? I am wondering if inbreeding for color, or...

Here are my end of summer updates on my attempts at egg incubation, keet brooding, and Guinea hen brooding. Incubation wise, I had two separate hatches. The first was terrible, continuing my pattern of eggs that failed to pip at lockdown. I had tried a new turner but that didn’t help, so for...

Hi All, I just got the news that my pic of a hatching Guinea keet won Fifth Place in the Annual BYC Easter Hatching Contest! Since it’s a Guinea keet I thought you all might be interested...

Poll: Question for fun! I’ve been adding a run and renovating the Guinea coop. I’ve always wanted a flight door, where they have to fly up to use it. I’ve also always wanted to have two doors, so they have less chance of being trapped in the coop by a daytime predator. My thought was that the...

I came across this video on Facebook this morning and wanted to share. It’s really interesting to hear angry bird Philip’s trilling call, which sounds different from that of our domesticted helmeted guinea fowl. Fun video! I think one of the links below should work to watch it without a Facebook...

I was so excited to find someone in Oklahoma who breeds fancy colored guinea fowl. So, 27 days ago, I set 27 of his eggs in the incubator. This was a week after a hen (Violet) conveniently went broody on a nest in my coop. The day I set the eggs, another hen, Welch, just happened to join Violet...

We’ve relocated multiple large black rat snakes this year, but they just keep coming. After seeing one at a guinea nest, I decided to try this minnow trap. I enlarged the end openings and stuffed with guinea eggs and I set it in the nest at night. So far, there have been no takers… Anyone use a...

Hi All, My last run for my guinea fowl coop came down in an ice storm last year, so I decided to totally revise the whole run to be less problematic. I am building the run off of an existing 8x16’ elevated cattle panel coop. I made a drawing of the current plan. Post holes are already dug and...

Hi All, it was suggested in the ducks forum that I look here for help with a possible snapping turtle. We have had four ducks for three years. We let them out for pond time most evenings, with some supervision. The pond is about 1/4 acre and is very muddy full of red clay (Oklahoma), so no...

Hi All, we have had four ducks for three years. We let them out for pond time most evenings, with some supervision. The pond is about 1/4 acre and is very muddy full of red clay, so no visibility. The pond is stocked with channel catfish that are now about four pounds. There are also slider...

This is Slate, an unimaginative name for a two year old slate guinea hen. She’s my only slate guinea and throws Pearl grey keets with her pied Pearl grey mate. As I still haven’t found time to work on my run, my guineas coop at night and are free range in the day. They have kept me on a merry...

Our grass is still wondering if it should show itself, but it’s warm, so our guineas have decided that Spring is Here!!! I was unpleasantly made aware of this fact yesterday. First, I heard a single guinea hen buckwheating in the distance. I went to investigate and found Violet “trapped” behind...

I’ve been discussing our bird’s reactions to our unusual cold snap and cold spell that ended for us just this past weekend. I thought I’d post a quick update on its own thread since I managed a few pictures! We have Guineas, chickens (hens and roosters) and layer ducks. We routinely freeze at...

Hi All, I can see comb frostbite is getting a lot of posts now, but Fabio the 1.5 yr old Favorelles rooster has a weird comb pattern that is so odd looking. Like much of the country, we’ve been much colder than normal. We do often have freezing nights but not to zero degrees F and not usually...

I had a not so happy Christmas Eve - after a busy day of errands, I came home to find that I was missing a guinea. Of course, it was the six month old juvenile that I painstakingly acquired as a set of pricey eggs, stressed over when they hatched under the first time guinea mom (Welch) while I...

Last spring, we attached to our guinea coop a Premier electric net fence with hawk netting over it. The coop is on a hill, and there aren’t flat spaces around it, so I meant this run to be temporary. It’s turned out that they really need a run, so I had planned to make a new, more permanent run...

I guess I’ll be making the new Guinea run sooner than planned... The white PVC central posts holding up the netting mostly crumpled an hour after I took this picture. I’m going to need to let the guineas out to free range tomorrow since the run is now demolished, but there are still trees and...

I’ve been watching how the guinea flock has reformed itself since egg laying stopped for fall. The four adult cocks reworked out their dominance and then started ignoring their mates and became part of the core group. The rest of the core group had included all guineas except three low ranking...

So, the other day, I posted about the love em and leave em mating habits of our guinea flock. Then I started thinking that this would make more sense as a chart of some kind... and then I wasted a few perfectly good hours of time on this genealogy chart. The style is mostly human based - I had...