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So we think we have three (two for sure..not sure about the third one yet) guinea chickens. We have a silver guinea named Kiwi. we had originally bought two to try out two years ago but one died as a keet so he was the only one until we got three more this year. We have always had him with our chickens...and at the beginning of this past summer he had five hens (we always called them his GFs) that he was always with. He would be freaking out and screeching if he couldnt find them or if the chicken roo got anywhere near them. Four of them were golden comets and one a RI White......
Our guinea Kiwi is a regular ole grey/silver guinea fowl male.
We kept seeing him ON the chickens...they were with him all the time...if our chicken roo came near them he would attack him so he just let him have his five..it was quite the barn yard drama unfolding!
So in about the beginning of Sept my hubs got the bug to hatch some eggs so he kept tossing them in the incubator. The first one that hatched was one UUUGGGGLY chick!! We were like that the heck is THAT? We named her Hayley. As she got bigger it became apparent that she was not all chicken..even though it was a a chicken egg not a guinea.
Here Hayley now
She is about 5 months old here...I just took this pic a couple days ago. The only chicken we have that is white is the RI White...but Hayley has black spots all over her back..the head and the body shape looks like the guineas as they were going thru there "awkward stage"
She also has some really weird feet!
super long toes!!
So as far as we can tell...the is half guinea half RI White....
what do you think?
Our guinea Kiwi is a regular ole grey/silver guinea fowl male.
We kept seeing him ON the chickens...they were with him all the time...if our chicken roo came near them he would attack him so he just let him have his five..it was quite the barn yard drama unfolding!
So in about the beginning of Sept my hubs got the bug to hatch some eggs so he kept tossing them in the incubator. The first one that hatched was one UUUGGGGLY chick!! We were like that the heck is THAT? We named her Hayley. As she got bigger it became apparent that she was not all chicken..even though it was a a chicken egg not a guinea.
Here Hayley now
She is about 5 months old here...I just took this pic a couple days ago. The only chicken we have that is white is the RI White...but Hayley has black spots all over her back..the head and the body shape looks like the guineas as they were going thru there "awkward stage"
She also has some really weird feet!
super long toes!!
So as far as we can tell...the is half guinea half RI White....
what do you think?