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Loungey pigs.  They've been rooting well, but sort of avoiding the big rooty area in the middle that I need them to work, asap.  She's digging herself a hole so deep she's almost below grade now.I closed the small coop a touch too early.  There was a latecomer.I dropped the ramp again and du du du - trotted right up!The guineas are killing me (poor choice of words).  They are getting picked off and I can't help them.  The downside of being wild and independent.  There was an owl picked one off the GH;  I knew lining up on the GH was a bad idea, but I thought if they slept on the coop, right by the wall of the GH, they'd be ok.  Nope.  And since, they've been moving around in the forest, because they don't return to any roost proven not safe.  They were roosting in a big apple tree, which I thought was a great choice, nice safe spot, and it was for a few days.  But last night there was another event, and I didn't get a chance to count them today.Meanwhile I've been trying to make a safe spot.  I sewed together two widths of bird netting to make a strip wide enough, and draped a big canopy off the end of the GH.  I set it up with electric fence at the base, they went in, I closed it up, and found that guineas slip handily right through the electric fence.  Then I was after deer fence, and the co-op said they had some, until we went to buy it and they didn't.  Then I finally get some (very attractive orange) snow fence tonight, get it all set up, feel good about it, and the guineas choose to skip dinner.T-minus one week to move the GH and get all the birds in for good.