Do you name your guineas

[Jabebee13]

White guinea - Snowy? 2. Starlight. 3. Male - II Premiere ii, Miss It Er, Miss Lovely, Miss Wooly, Lana (italian for wool), Miss Feathery, 9. Sequin 10. Shiny 11. Unnamed. White guineas. And Jennifer and Cutie are grey guineas. Brown as babies. They change feathers. . Naturally. What process is this called... Not exactly molting is it? Pictures in 4 days from now. Sorry. They don't live with me right now. I'm not living with the flock.

 

[R2elk]

White guinea - Snowy? 2. Starlight. 3. Male - II Premiere ii, Miss It Er, Miss Lovely, Miss Wooly, Lana (italian for wool), Miss Feathery, 9. Sequin 10. Shiny 11. Unnamed. White guineas. And Jennifer and Cutie are grey guineas. Brown as babies. They change feathers. . Naturally. What process is this called... Not exactly molting is it? Pictures in 4 days from now. Sorry. They don't live with me right now. I'm not living with the flock.

I do not name any of my poultry.

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

White guinea - Snowy? 2. Starlight. 3. Male - II Premiere ii, Miss It Er, Miss Lovely, Miss Wooly, Lana (italian for wool), Miss Feathery, 9. Sequin 10. Shiny 11. Unnamed. White guineas. And Jennifer and Cutie are grey guineas. Brown as babies. They change feathers. . Naturally. What process is this called... Not exactly molting is it? Pictures in 4 days from now. Sorry. They don't live with me right now. I'm not living with the flock.

Yes! That’s part of why I like to have a variety of colors in my guineas. I need to update this, but here’s a kind of genealogy chart with names...

 

[Sydney65]

Never name something you plan to eat. There's nothing quite as terrifying to a child as opening a freezer seeing packages labeled "Blackie" (true story).
On the otherhand, we don't gave ours to eat, so everyone has a name.

 

[Jabebee13]

Never name something you plan to eat. There's nothing quite as terrifying to a child as opening a freezer seeing packages labeled "Blackie" (true story).
On the otherhand, we don't gave ours to eat, so everyone has a name.

I don't plan on eating guineas. They are for chicken flock protection. I heard the ratio for guinea fowl male to female is 1:1. I'm lucky if I have 3 males. I have 10 females. So I won't be eating the meat. But I'll be eating eggs if they don't go broody. I had six guinea before they didn't. On second thought how much meat is on a guinea? I haven't processed a guinea but chickens and ducks. The ratio game says no. I want to breed chickens not guineas. Same for geese. I'll eat eggs or let be broody. But I'm not incubating guinea. I might buy more male guinea babies next year to protect the flock.

 

[My2butterflies]

I don’t have plans to eat my guineas. Though, if one dies from breeding time violence again I think I might try it. I feel bad about the one that died this year, we didn’t eat it so I feel it was a waste.

I have named a few guineas and other poultry. Names happen when particular ones stand out. I don’t go out of my way to name them.

 

[southwind00]

I don’t have plans to eat my guineas. Though, if one dies from breeding time violence again I think I might try it. I feel bad about the one that died this year, we didn’t eat it so I feel it was a waste.

I have named a few guineas and other poultry. Names happen when particular ones stand out. I don’t go out of my way to name them.

I agree with @My2butterflies ,if they stand out they get a name, like my white female that was the only egg that hatched out of eight I bought off Ebay, hence her name is Ebay and a few others with stories so they get names. My 10 young adults(4 guinea brooded and 6 garage brooded) are all very similarly pied and naming would be very confusing. Guinea are a taste treat for sure and I had planned on culling a few to get my ratio correct but I'm at 8 hens and 7 cocks which I feel is pretty good and i don't want to mess that up. But having just bought a 50# bag of white millet and shocked by the price rise $20 to $37 (anybody else get that) , I may change my tune

 

[Tre3hugger]

@southwind00 although white millet is definitely a favorite treat of guineas, there is no reason to feed that exclusively. I feed my adult guineas a 20% protein all flock pellet. It cost $15/50lb. All my chickens get this also so I only need to buy one kind of feed. Both the guineas and chickens are offered free choice oyster shell. Feed the all flcok regularly, and use the white millet as a high value treat! Just my .02 cents.

 

[southwind00]

@southwind00 although white millet is definitely a favorite treat of guineas, there is no reason to feed that exclusively. I feed my adult guineas a 20% protein all flock pellet. It cost $15/50lb. All my chickens get this also so I only need to buy one kind of feed. Both the guineas and chickens are offered free choice oyster shell. Feed the all flcok regularly, and use the white millet as a high value treat! Just my .02 cents.

Now there's an assumption! I feed Nutena gamebird/turkey grower right now with 21%protien and probably will till spring then back off the protein a little when all my guineas are adults. Guineas is all I have. Millet is one of their treats so every late afternoon they are in their coop waiting for their treat. It makes my guinea life easy.

 

[R2elk]

Now there's an assumption! I feed Nutrena gamebird/turkey grower right now with 21% protein and probably will till spring then back off the protein a little when all my guineas are adults. Guineas is all I have. Millet is one of their treats so every late afternoon they are in their coop waiting for their treat. It makes my guinea life easy.

I don't feed treats. Most evenings when I go to shut the guineas in for the night, they are all in the coop with a lookout watching for me. As soon as they see me, they come running out of the coop and wait for me to get my stick. I start tapping the stick on the ground and they run right back in the coop.

If for some reason, I am late, they will all be on their roosts and do not come rushing back out.