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Hard boiled and peeled is the best way. It adds the least foreign content and cooked is better than raw. The nutrients have been proven to be more readily available to them if they are cooked rather than raw.

Some people use cat food to increase the protein. Educating your feed stores helps the most in the long run.

Crushed egg shells may not be enough. I recommend providing free choice oyster shell.

The game bird starter will not hurt the chickens but they don't need it and if they are starting to lay they need the extra calcium in layer feed or at the least, free choice oyster shell.

The problem with chick starter is not only is it too low in protein, it is also lacking in the necessary amounts of lysine, methionine and niacin. If you can't find the right kind of feed locally, Chewy is an option. I find that talking to local feed stores and explaining why the guineas need...

FYI, while hard boiled eggs are an excellent food, it is not high protein. It is only about 12% protein. The people claiming it is high protein ignore the fact that it is high protein based on dry weight. No one is feeding eggs dry. Cooked eggs still contain about the same per cent of water...

Some will start calling that young but that is the only way to sex them when young. Dogfood is inappropriate for guineas. They need a high protein turkey or game bird starter for their first 6 to 8 weeks. Without the proper food when they are started, they can end up with stunted growth and...

My guineas are not chicken imprinted. They got along fine with the chickens when they were free ranged together because they knew that chickens were not guineas. The ones that I raised with chicks were chicken imprinted and did not understand that chickens were not guineas. They treated the...

You will find out when their first breeding season starts. That's when the guinea's instinctive habits kick in. Their races and chases along with attacks from behind with feather pulling and breaking occur then.

Some people keep them locked in the coop until afternoon to get them in the habit of laying in the coop. I let mine make their hidden nests which I would then search for. I would put fake eggs in the nests and remove any real eggs on a daily basis. Some would go broody but I would herd them...

I trained my guineas to be herded. Every evening I would herd them into the coop. The few times I had one that thought it should roost outside of the coop, I kept after them until they gave up. Eventually all of them would go in the coop at night on their own except for hens on their hidden...

It really helps to keep them in a secure coop of their own at night and to not let the hens go broody on hidden nests.

The best thing you can do for that guinea and your chicken flock is to rehome it to someone who already has a large flock of guineas.