Because they were raised with chickens, they see the chickens as guineas. Guineas are a lot more aggressive as a breed and that is fine if it's guineas they are associating but chickens are milder and weaker, so the guineas will rule the roost and the chickens will suffer. No turning back...
I give them more grain in the Winter than any other time. Foraging is much harder and they venture further into the woods but always come back. I've never had to encourage them to come back. Our mouse population is down because of slider snakes, black snakes and copperheads.
My guineas aren't allowed anything but free-ranging and when they wander into the chicken house every once in a while. They are always out doing their pestilence duty. I have two dogs and four cats. It is very rare if they or we have a tick or flea on them or us and we live in the middle of...
I've never thought about guinea meat. Will have some nice fresh baked chicken once in a while. Hmmmm... I'll have to consider that. How old is too old for guinea? Chickens about 16 - 18 weeks. Turkeys I assume are younger?
I found the culprits to be two hens. The guineas were the ones there just hanging out when I would find half eaten eggs until I went over before the guineas on separate occasions and found eaten eggs and more than once caught a RR and a sex-link breaking them open. I have them banded and and...