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You can provide housing fit for a queen, but if you want your guinea
hens to actually go broody inside the guinea house, you might encourage
her to do so by offering one or more of the following hiding spots inside
the shelter..
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A fenced yard attached to the guinea house is a great idea, not only
to provide a safe
area for injured guineas to get outside, but also to keep predators
from entering the
bird door to their home. This shows a tarp covered yard.
Some use poultry netting.
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Frit's poultry yard is uncovered - a link at the bottom of this
page will take
you to photos of Frit's setup, guinea housing and attached yard, photos
inside and out.
An uncovered poultry yard should have a landing board along the top
of the fence for safe
footage for the guineas. Uncovered yards make it easier for the owner
to keep chickens confined
while allowing guineas a safe place to land on as they exit to
free range or re-enter to roost.
This photo was donated by Raleigh S. in Illinois.
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Theresa S. donated these photos of her new poultry building New York.
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Master Gardener's guinea house in Michigan
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Keith's guineas learned to use the smaller bird door near the ceiling of their guinea house as illustrated. Thanks for sharing your ideas, Keith!
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Our 4x8 coop has two windows, two people doors and one glass guinea door. Inside is a ladder type roost and electric power for an overhead night light and an outlet for a base heater. The pen is a second-hand dog kennel covered with chicken wire. Rebar stakes were pounded into the ground along the perimeter of the pen to deter digging predators. The roof provides protected access to the outdoors on days when the flock is not free ranging. Within the playpen the guineas have a cement tube and tree branch perches. Karen T.
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Mike's Guinea House on Stilts The first photo below shows the birds just hanging around outside and on the deck. The other is them how it looks when they are locked in. Just before sunset, I refill the feeder with just and add a top layer of white millet. We then walk behind the birds, normally me and my daughter to herd them to the base of the house. On good nights we just clap and go home Guineas. They fly up one by one. Some times they play on the porch with their mirrors and an old sneaker(they like to peck the laces) then as soon as one goes in and starts eating the others follow. We do have one that stays out on the roof of the house on occasion and requires more attention to go in. We chase him off with a stick and after a few times he or she gets the hint. On bad nights normally on days that they have not had their fill of the great outdoors, we will have to pick on or two up and set them on the deck to get things going. The interior of the house is 3' by 7'. The outside makes it a little larger with the porch and decks. The entire foot print of is 4' by 8 1/2'. They seem to enjoy all the windows and sky lights. I think it makes there little bird house seem much bigger to them. The trap doors on the bottom make it easy to clean. The only bad part is getting all the little feathers in my face when I remove the slide out panel on the bottom. We do have a motion sensor aimed at the base make low wattage spot lights go on when intruders come. Most of my ideas came from the message board.
This is our first winter. Right now it is 25 outside and 35 in the house. One small section of the bottom is open where I shine a heat lamp up. It helps to keep the Temp above 32 for the water. During blizzards they may be stuck inside for a while. 5 birds are sharing 21 sq ft. If it was an extended storm, we would most likely just bring them into the garage one by one. They are all hand tame.(Some more than others) I have to plow a path from our home to theirs so I plan on digging out a clear spot on the ground for them when it snows. I think they go home so easy because the house was also their brooder. We just moved it from the garage to the stilts. Mike in Connecticut |
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| Tim & Katie's Coop from Costco |
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roomy guinea house for these lucky guineas. The attached yard is a playround that provides places for the guineas to sit up high, tunnels to run through, and few places to lay eggs in privacy. The indoor area (guineas only here) is complete with a nice, big mirror to admire themselves in. :) |
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Sally's
Guinea & Chicken House share this house in Tennessee
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Laurette's poultry house with skylights
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There is plenty of room for
a HUGE flock of Guinea Fowl
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John's guinea housing. Another good coop for a southern location
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Here is Joe's coop in Australia.
Plans to build this "A" Frame are at the bottom
of the page.
Thank you Joe!
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The house is 9 feet wide, about 8 feet high and about 14 feet long and is suitable
for warmer locations..
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A-Frame on left Cindy in TX On
the right, inside JeanneAR's guinea house
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Below is a picture of a small chicken tractor; the dimensions are:
2' high X 3' wide X 6' long. The pen section has a removable wind break
made of bubble wrap & corrugated fiberglass. The bubble wrap lasts app.
2 seasons.
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This temporary pen is much
bigger as you can see,and takes a garden tractor to move. It's made of
a hay ring with an old sattelite dish for a roof, & covered with 1/2 X1"
welded wire. 
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and here is Simon with coop
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"The first:
the guinea hens surrounding the
outhouse anticipating millet (thanks to Frit) upon my approach. The second: my daughter Juliet filling their water bowl. (You can see an old toilet seat in the background.) The third (rather fuzzy still): a view of the inside of the outhouse. (Both toilet seats visible, though the guinea fowl perches above didn't make it in the picture. But I'm sure mine would win an award for being the world's most sorry looking coop. Well, it's humble anyway", Lexi. |
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Great use for old trailers!
Click
for photos inside and out of Frit's guinea house
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Printable Plans for Poultry Housing: Poultry
House 8X8a - (print both a and b) Poultry
House 10X10a - (print both a and b) "A" Frame Poultry House - (pictured above) 303899 bytes zipped How
to Build Animal Housing:
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"Guinea
access doors (one to the yard, one to the pen). 2' x 2' access door for
food, water, grit and large double doors (4' x 4') inside the pen so I
can put in roosts, clean, etc. The back of the L is 4 feet tall. It is
very cute, but I do regret not making it a walk in since I have to crawl
in every once in a while to scrub or scrape the floor. More head room for
roosts and lights would also be good. Keep in mind that I designed this
and Bob built it without any poultry experience and would likely make a
combination building with walk-in area and a section that looks like a
little cottage if I had to do it over again. I saw a similar building before
we did this that had a roof that lifted up but the leak potential was too
high for my comfort. The house is L shaped, 8' x 8' x 4' by 4' x 4' x4'.
The entire foot print is 8' by 14' and ten feet tall. I have a split door
between the pen and the yard, like a horse stall, but they never got the
hang of going through the top half of the door to go out in the yard. We
keep a tarp over the top (which is covered with 2" poultry wire) to keep
the ground area dry, someday, Bob's going to put on a proper sloped roof.
Another thing that I didn't like after all was said and done is that there
is very little room for expansion. I am currently housing 24 due to several
surprise adoptions but we are handling it fine by not locking them in the
house so I'm still under the four square feet. I clean more often too.
Fortunately everyone gets along. Another future plan is to enclose the
pen completely then add another covered outdoor play space. It's
all about learning and taking things as they come. These guys are highly
addicting The house looks lovely with Christmas lights on it!"
Carolyn
