Chickens and guinea together?

[Heathenfeather]

I'm getting chickens and guinea in a couple days. Does anyone have experience with having them together as babies? Should I separate them since guinea are supposed to have different food? Any experiences shared would be appreciated. Thank you!

 

[CascadiaRiver]

If they need different diets I would separate

 

[R2elk]

I'm getting chickens and guinea in a couple days. Does anyone have experience with having them together as babies? Should I separate them since guinea are supposed to have different food? Any experiences shared would be appreciated. Thank you!

You will find a lot of information on this in the Guinea Fowl forum.

I do not recommend brooding keets and chicks together because of the problems the imprinting causes. Everything can seem fine until the first breeding season happens.

Guineas have different instincts than any other poultry. They are flock birds and do best in large groups of guineas. Chicken imprinted guineas will not be able to understand that there is a difference between chickens and guineas. They will treat chickens the same as they will treat each other. The chickens will not understand the races and chases along with the attacks from behind with the feather pulling and feather breaking. It can cause great stress to the chickens.

Getting a few guineas will not give the claimed benefits of having guineas since most of those perceived benefits are due to having a flock along with the proper flock dynamics which cannot happen with just a couple of guineas.