Guineas living with chickens in moving trailer coop?

I've kept chickens before in a suburban coop environment. We got rid of them before moving cross country to a big piece of land we are developing as a small hobby farm. I'm presently building a mobile chicken coop trailer to house a few dozen chickens. The coop will be night digs only with an automatic coop door, and outside of the coop I'll theoretically keep them contained and protected using electric chicken netting (I have no doubt that guineas can fly right over this), the trailer will be moved every several days to keep them in fresh grass and bugs. I would like to grab say a dozen guineas to eat ticks and be extra vigilant, however I've never kept them before. I know they have a tendency to fly up into trees to roost. I'm basically resigned to the first year of having them be a trial in regards to whether I can stand their noise, how they do in this system, etc. If they split, then they split. Will brooding them in the mobile coop/trailer help them to "home" to the trailer? Will there be issues with moving the trailer and net say maybe 100 feet every several days?  

Keeping the guineas penned up in the barn taught them to sleep there even when let out. However, guineas can be mean. I had to get rid of all mine because they kept plucking the feathers out of the other birds. They're also dumb as rocks. Lost quite a few to walls. They flew right into them and broke their own necks.

elle sagenev wrote:Keeping the guineas penned up in the barn taught them to sleep there even when let out. However, guineas can be mean. I had to get rid of all mine because they kept plucking the feathers out of the other birds. They're also dumb as rocks. Lost quite a few to walls. They flew right into them and broke their own necks.

I'm prepared for this.  Frankly, I think I'll dislike them, but I also assume if I do in fact dislike them, the problem will resolve itself.  I just dislike ticks a lot too, so wanted to see how effective they may be at eating the little suckers.

Sounds like you're taking guineas with a grain of salt. Which is good, because you cannot underestimate just how dumb they can be. Even with a stationary coop, I'd always end up with one or two honking their heads off on the ROOF of the coop because they couldn't figure out how to get in the door. The same door they came out of in the morning. In the same place it's always been.

Wouldn't be so bad if not for the call and response to the ones that DID make it inside. "GET INSIDE!" "HOW DO I GET IN THERE!" "WHY ARE YOU NOT IN HERE!" "I'M HERE, I HEAR YOU, WHERE ARE YOU?!"

I had 6. Three died from predation in stupid ways. The remaining 3 were just too annoying so I gave them away. Lady that took them said they left her coop in the morning and were never seen or heard from again.

They always end up on the wrong side of a fence or building from each other and just honk about being separated until either blind luck or human intervention re-unites them. So I think they work best in wide open spaces with little to no fences or gates.