Can I see pictures of both Guinea sexes please?

[GldnValleyHens]

I want to compare pictures of male and female guineas with mine, to see if I can tell the difference. I can post pics tomorrow of my Coral Blue Guinea, hatched last June. We call ( her?) Nancy, but I cannot seem to figure out if she is a boy or girl. I've listened for buckwheat calls, don't know that I've ever heard any, and certainly no guinea eggs. I just want to know for sure what Nancy is, because it makes me go crazy not knowing. I know as far as my eye can tell, there are no major diffs between the two sexes, but surely there are subtle ones. I read on here one person who can tell the difference by body shape but there is no way I could figure that out. Totally failed that one. Thanks all you guinea experts.

 

[Arya28]

Hi! We have four guineas. You can't tell by appearance as they look identical. The only way you can tell is by the sounds they make-- females make 2 syllable sounds that sound like "buck-wheat". Females also can make one syllable sounds. Boys CANNOT make 2 syllable sounds. So if you hear it making 2 syllable sounds it's definitely a girl.

 

[R2elk]

I want to compare pictures of male and female guineas with mine, to see if I can tell the difference. I can post pics tomorrow of my Coral Blue Guinea, hatched last June. We call ( her?) Nancy, but I cannot seem to figure out if she is a boy or girl. I've listened for buckwheat calls, don't know that I've ever heard any, and certainly no guinea eggs. I just want to know for sure what Nancy is, because it makes me go crazy not knowing. I know as far as my eye can tell, there are no major diffs between the two sexes, but surely there are subtle ones. I read on here one person who can tell the difference by body shape but there is no way I could figure that out. Totally failed that one. Thanks all you guinea experts.

As @Arya28 pointed out, it can be very difficult if not impossible to sex guineas from photos. My Coral Blue males tend to have much smaller wattles than some of the other guinea colors have.
Coral Blue Guinea cock

Coral Blue Guinea hen

 

[GldnValleyHens]

As @Arya28 pointed out, it can be very difficult if not impossible to sex guineas from photos. My Coral Blue males tend to have much smaller wattles than some of the other guinea colors have.
Coral Blue Guinea cock

Coral Blue Guinea hen

MIne has very large, dangling wattles. I'm going out there and am going to get some pics today, maybe a video too

 

[MillersFarm]

These are all hens

And this is one of my cocks

 

[R2elk]

These are all hens

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I had 3 Lavender males that had wattles exactly like this one.

 

[MillersFarm]

I had 3 Lavender males that had wattles exactly like this one.

She's a hen for sure, Sings buckwheat all the time, I tell her apart from other easily because she came with a bad eye. Definitely a hen. Although i've had a white male with smaller waddles than that before as well.

 

[GldnValleyHens]

Guineas are so complicated. If only all the males had bright purple heads or something. Or spurs. Ouch, that would make a mean guinea even worse

 

[R2elk]

She's a hen for sure, Sings buckwheat all the time, I tell her apart from other easily because she came with a bad eye. Definitely a hen. Although I've had a white male with smaller waddles than that before as well.

I was not disagreeing with you. I have no reason to doubt which ones you say are hens. My only point is that sexing guineas from photos is nothing more than a guessing game. I have a Chocolate male that has a huge cupped wattle on one side and a hen shaped wattle on the other side. I also have seen photos of known hens that had the big cupped wattles like the male in your last photo.

The absolute best proof of a guinea being a hen is when she lays an egg.

 

[R2elk]

Guineas are so complicated. If only all the males had bright purple heads or something. Or spurs. Ouch, that would make a mean guinea even worse

There are other ways to sex guineas in person such as how males tend to stand erect and sidle towards you rather than looking directly at you like a hen does. I can pick out the hens and males in adult birds by observing them but I would not try it based on a photo.