Anybody here ever raise guineas?

You will always know when someone comes to your house.

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It can't be any worse than the racket grandkids make...

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Unless grandkids scream all the time, then maybe. My Grandfather had a bunch of those beasts of hell and man they were loud.

We used to have a few of them at a barn. I like em.

here's a good article

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guineas can be either endlessly entertaining & beneficial, or hair-raisingly annoying and destructive. which one depends on you, not the guineas. they are smart, hard headed, crafty, mean and as mentioned, noisy. they will also eat every tick in your yard, are the best watchdog you could ever have, and are damn good eating.

one of the funniest things i've ever seen was back a few years ago, i had a neighbor who bought a dozen guinea pullets...he babied them in a close pen for almost 2 months, then gradually expanded the enclosed area making sure they went back in the coop at night. finally the big day arrived, and he let them out of the wire...they marched single file into the woods and we never saw them again

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That's freaking hilarious.....

My cousin experienced a situation similar to that, except it was hogs. Check this out.

This lady up north of Shreveport (Belcher area) - the wife of a prominent farmer - got to complaining one day to a cousin of mine about the hog problem on her farm. He (my cousin) told her he'd be glad to try and trap them, so she gave him carte blanche access to her land, right, to trap hogs. He bought some of those wire snares, set them, and had the whole deal planned out, right? Had him a wire pen built, etc. He told her his plan was to trap them, corn feed them to "get the wild taste" out (she insisted they were strictly corn fed lol, thus, the reason she had a problem with them), slaughter them, and eat some wild hog. So, he sets his snares, waits, and goes checks. Boom....first time, he's got two. One looked like a straight up pig from a pig farm. The other one though was this big arse boar, with big tusks, long hair - I mean a rough looking cuss. He sees that he's got two snared, so he runs back to town, rounds up some other cousins and folks, and finally, they get these two hogs "tied", in the back of a truck, and so now he heads back towards his house, which is around the Vivian area.

They kinda think this out...ok, each person will grab a leg, and while all the legs are grabbed, they'll do the old "one, two, three", and throw the hogs towards the back of the pen. they throw the first one - the domestic looking one in there - and it just gets as far way from them as possible, in the back of the pen. Then, they throw the big long haired mean one in, the same way.

Here's my cousin's description (he's kind of a country talking fellow)......

"son, you ever seen them ol' cartoons, where sumpen just runs thew a wall, and don't even slow down? THAT's what he done, son.....i mean that hogwire never even slowed him down!! he run thew that fence like ol' Cecil Collins, and blowed about a 2 foot hole in that hog wire."

The other one just followed him out, back out into the woods behind his house. they never caught another one.

Every once and a while I'll throw a dozen or so in the brooder. I know most people cook them in a gumbo but I love them cooked in a gravy.

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also alert you to everything that comes buy, snakes, neighbors, dogs, cats, DEMOCRATS, etc

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yes you want day old keets
If you buy adults they will definitely run off

no guarantee the youngins won't do the same but you have better odds. They are wild fowl, nothing in common with chickens except feathers

The exact same thing happened to me. When I finally released them, they marched single file into the woods and down toward the river. Never saw a feather from them.