My Guinea babies are growing up. They seem to mature slower than chickens although I have not researched that... Yet.
We got off to a rocky start when Imma refused them. My Brahma hens have never refused a chick and I guess I was expecting the same maternal instinct from my California White Imma. She's been a great mother to her chicken chick in her defense.
I believe I have broken them though. Everyone keeps telling me give them more time to mature but I don't know 😬
They gettin pretty big.
When Imma refused them I had to step in and keep them warm. Being off grid that meant getting up at midnight and replacing their hot water bottles. And making sure they were tucked in at night. I made them that little tent house and every night I would tuck them under it and surround them with the warm bottles. I thought it was a great idea!
And I didn't consider in my design on their new cage that I would have to crawl in there and tuck them in every night.
Last night I said that's it! Y'all are big enough to go to roost and I left them. At 10pm I was out there crawling in their cage putting them to bed cause they were still sitting at the door crying for me. They are getting their big guinea voices. So far the only time they use them is to call me at bedtime 😵
I've been waiting to do an update but I think I need help.... Any Guinea experts out there 😌
I might have broke em but they still good lookin ain't they 😍
Thanks so much for stopping by the homestead
@SugarCreek
Yep original photos taken by me on my cheap cell phone 
Uh oh. They're ruint.
You're mama guinea now. You have to put their new coop in their bed and snuggle them every night probably.
I'm hoping to salvage the situation..... Somehow.
I don't mind tucking them in.
It's the crawling in there that sucks. Lol
I guess I'm a moma Guinea 😂
haha! oh man those things are so trained. but the good news is that they won't run off when you let them out like Guineas are known to do.
Yeah they're still good looking now but boy they get ugly fast! or at least I thought they were, I still liked them and they stayed close to the house because we put feed out for them every night so they would come back for it.
we didn't let ours out until they were three months old.
So you think they are still to young to be independent?
Maybe I'm rushing them.
They are same age as Beeashee who is still sleeping under her mother 😵 my critters are crazy critters. Haha
well all I know is that I did a great deal of reading before we got ours and the soonest any owners said to release them out in the yard was 3 months. That's what we did and they were fine.
Thanks!
Mine were hatched July 18th so they ARE still to young.
well sugarcreek maybe to on their own totally but do you have a larger pen or fenced in area? because those guys get big FAST!
I am hoping to teach them to come back to this one at night.
Haha, birds that need to be tucked in at night! I’ve never read anything so funny and adorable at the same time! 😍
I wish I had advice, but so far I’ve only raised chickens. 😕 I hope you can get them sorted out!
I know right! I am going down over here. hahahahaha
Love my critters! Maybe they will grow up soon.