Hmm, are your guineas tame?guineas definitely have a big impact on the way chickens behave but my guineas have all been quicker to tame and more affectionate than my chickens to begin with. I lost my male guinea when he sacrificed himself for the girls, now I have the EE, a month old barred rock pullet, and a 2 mos old guinea hen. Macao, Lydia, Ducky. Macao the EE is the only skiddish one. I have 3 in the brooder, two 2 week old silver sebrights and a week old male guinea keet. Lydia the BR is a total lap chicken, and all my guineas have been crazy about me. Ducky plays tag with me, she runs up flapping her wings and tags me, darts off a few feet then stops and looks back waiting for me to chase her. When I tag her back she runs in a circle flapping her wings excitedly lol. She also flies onto me if I ever dare hold someone else. She will fly on my head if my shoulders are taken. Lydia does the same thing. Macao mostly panicked and runs for her life if I try to pick her up, lol. She's so cute but such a wimp. Once you're holding her she's OK.i honestly have felt like my guineas help to make my birds more outgoing. My sebright chicks were so timid but now that they see the keet running and jumping into my hand and begging to be held they have come around. I'm sure if the guineas weren't tame it would make the chickens more nervous seeing them freak out whenever a person came near but my guineas have been so easy to tame by just hand feeding and doing fun things for them like digging for earthworms in the yard together. After I started that they overnight began to hop up on my lap and follow me everywhere. Handling them alone isn't the best way to really tame them, it doesn't form the same positive association as treats and fun do. I will say that after my crazy, ADD puppy dog of a male guinea died my two hens and my one female guinea all became waaay more affectionate overnight. It's like he had been hogging me, whereas I always thought the girls just weren't interested. Maybe they didn't want to compete with him? Both my male guineas have been exceptionally desperate for treats and attention. Here are my girls from tonight. My husband was trying to work with the spastic EE named Macao and almost immediately Ducky the guinea got jealous and flew onto his shoulder. Then Lydia the barred rock did the same, which was a first, she flew from my shoulder to his. I took Lydia back on me and Ducky then flew onto my head from his shoulder. I'm told guineas aren't normally like this but I have not had to work that hard with any of them. It's the EE who is a challenge, she's been with us as long as the guineas but you'd think we just got her. She was almost 2 wks when we got her from rural king though, she was all alone. I think that was traumatic for her

we got her the guineas for company not knowing what guineas even were, lol.