Are these Chocolate Guineas?

[cowcreekgeek]

Ahaha!!!

Welcome to my world!!! Always starts out simple, doesn't it. I blame it on the dominant colors/pearling... if they didn't rule the gene pool I could just have one flock (yah riiiiight!).

Wait a minute... are you comparing me to a crazy cat lady??? Lmao!

w/ my comparatively moderate addiction, folks might call me 'the male w/ too many birds' version?


I'm just sayin' ~'-)

 

[PeepsCA]

Exactly how many Guineas/flocks is considered crazy??? LOL

 

[cowcreekgeek]

Exactly how many Guineas/flocks is considered crazy??? LOL

1.

 

[PeepsCA]

Quote: Then I am toast, lol. I started with 1 flock, then increased to 2, then 5, now 7

 

[cowcreekgeek]

Sounds like time to fire up the grill ... I'll bring a few of my meaner chickens, and the two guineas that seem to break out into fights every few days (if I can figure out which one's which ~'-)

Actually? A serious question on that ... originally planned on puttin' the most friendly birds w/ the chickens, and the remaining birds on the next hilltop over. But, the two males that are fencing w/ their necks ... should I, instead, put one of 'em w/ the chickens? Total (for now) of fifteen guineas.

 

[PeepsCA]

You try moving one of them, but more often than not the males that fight within their own flock will eventually get the cajones to fight in the next flock too, and may start targeting your chickens. The 2 male Guineas that are sparring are most likely just working on establishing the pecking order in the flock, and once it starts getting cold and stormy mine always cool their jets until at least Spring. But if it continues, especially to the point of blood then the grill or crock pot sounds like a more feasible plan to me... then again I am kinda partial to the taste of Guinea tho, lol. In fact I have a few extra aggressive trouble making males that I need to deal with pretty soon so I can replace them with better colors. Have you figured out what your male to female ratio is yet (of your Guineas)? 1 male to 3-4 Hens works pretty good for all of my breeding flocks, but my full time free range flock has 8 males and 4 Hens and they do fine too... but they aren't confined to a coop/run ever so I'm sure that helps keep the peace.

 

[cowcreekgeek]

You try moving one of them, but more often than not the males that fight within their own flock will eventually get the cajones to fight in the next flock too, and may start targeting your chickens. The 2 male Guineas that are sparring are most likely just working on establishing the pecking order in the flock, and once it starts getting cold and stormy mine always cool their jets until at least Spring. But if it continues, especially to the point of blood then the grill or crock pot sounds like a more feasible plan to me... then again I am kinda partial to the taste of Guinea tho, lol. In fact I have a few extra aggressive trouble making males that I need to deal with pretty soon so I can replace them with better colors. Have you figured out what your male to female ratio is yet (of your Guineas)? 1 male to 3-4 Hens works pretty good for all of my breeding flocks, but my full time free range flock has 8 males and 4 Hens and they do fine too... but they aren't confined to a coop/run ever so I'm sure that helps keep the peace.

Yeah, my male to female ratio is currently one to zero ... oh ... the guineas; of course ... I'm gonna start pullin' some this weekend, so I can get (hopefully) a more certain idea as to which is which, but I believe it to be fairly high. I still haven't even nailed down the colors yet ... I do have pied and very light colored ones, which I figured on keepin' w/ the chickens, which tend to push 'em around a bit, even if only for now.

As to the sparring? I have doubts that it's limited to one pair, but it has been the grey pearls every time I've seen 'em, so that works well for kickin' them out to their mid-pasture mid-farm location ... they can be my wilder ones and, for sure ... any bird that proves overly aggressive is gonna be food (most probably for both me 'n niko, my dog ~'-)