Very unusual chick, Guinea / chicken hybrid!!

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bemba

bemba

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Feb 5, 2010
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Hi guys, I posted on another thread a picture of my little guinea / chicken hybrid but thought I'd do up it's own thread if anyone is interested in seeing updated pics as it grows :) Mum is a pearl pied guinea and dad is a black red malay rooster! out of 8 eggs 4 were fertile but unfortunately the other 3 died a few days before pip. This guy is very healthy and active. It sounds like a keet and a chick all rolled into one... so weird but so interesting at the same time! The alone cry sounds more chickenish.

Here are mum and dad.....


He has white wing tips and a white belly patch also.
 
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wow! that's cool, I didn't know they could hybridize
 
bemba said:
I call it a he but I don't know for sure :p He is now 5 days old, and such a little fatty! LOVES his mealworms and shredded greens! This thing seriously doesn't stop eating
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I think that is a guinea trait. My little guys are Always eating. They run each other over to get to food. I was worrying at first that they werent getting fed enough. But they are growing so fast I guess thats why. Your little guy/girl is adorable. I am integrating my keets with my chickens and am sort of hoping for a hybrid. I wouldnt be mad if they had a few. Integrating is going to have to go into high speed though as the babies busted out their brooder light horsing around this eve. and I don't have gas or money to get back to town tonight to replace it. Have one in the big kid coop so will have to stuff everyone in together and pray it works. Big guys on perch/ little guys on floor on hay. coop is smallish though for 20 birds. Dimensions are about 5 ft tall by 4 ft x 4 ft or so. Holding my breath.
 
Tacampbell1973 said:
I think that is a guinea trait. My little guys are Always eating. They run each other over to get to food. I was worrying at first that they werent getting fed enough. But they are growing so fast I guess thats why. Your little guy/girl is adorable. I am integrating my keets with my chickens and am sort of hoping for a hybrid. I wouldnt be mad if they had a few. Integrating is going to have to go into high speed though as the babies busted out their brooder light horsing around this eve. and I don't have gas or money to get back to town tonight to replace it. Have one in the big kid coop so will have to stuff everyone in together and pray it works. Big guys on perch/ little guys on floor on hay. coop is smallish though for 20 birds. Dimensions are about 5 ft tall by 4 ft x 4 ft or so. Holding my breath.
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I have had guineas and chickens together for years and never bred a hybrid, mind you I didn't hatch every egg laid either. How did they go with the move?
 

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