Guinea Fowl and Roosters?

[VictorHernandez]

I want to get 25 Rhode Island Red Hens, 25 Black "Jersey" Giant Hens, 3 Rhode Island Red Roosters, 3 Black "Jersey" Giant Roosters, AND 3 male Royal Purple Guinea Fowl... the Roos to protect the flock, and the guineas to eat ticks near my Nubian/Boer/Pygmy goats, and to kill snakes. Would the 3 Guineas and 6 roosters kill each other? Can they live together? I would buy the baby chicks online, and the guinea keets from a local breeder. I wa thinkin on getting a guinea hen, but i think the males would be fighting over her to much. I will try to buy "gardening wih guineas as well". The chicken coop would be a large storage shack. I would also keep the flock locked in the coop for a week for coop training, and on the second week, only let them out for an hour each day, and after the second week, let them free roam.

 

[Kevin565]

. It depends on the birds personality. Some roosters and guineas get along just fine but in my case it did not. As long as you have a back up plan you'll be fine. Also, the snake killing applies to smaller juvenile snakes in most cases. I rarely see a guinea go after a adult snake.

 

[1MrsMagoo]

The guineas I started with were raised with my chickens and got along great as juveniles. When both matured, the guineas fought endlessly with the roosters and picked on the hens. They even went after my runner duck drake, but he was surprisingly tough and they gave up trying to pick on him.

I have found one method that seemed to work, but it was a fluke. I hatched some guinea eggs in my incubator. The guineas would have nothing to do with the keets when I put them in the nursery in the coop. However, my Barnevelder rooster Chico took a liking to them and would lay by the wire and stay with them every day. When they were big enough to start being allowed in the coop, the rooster "took them under his wing" and finished raising them. Once they were allowed to range, they stuck right with him and never left his side for months. Now, that they are grown, they're his pals and those particular guineas don't mess with the chickens at all.

It may be, as I said, a fluke and particular to these birds, but I will definitely try it again if I ever hatch more guineas.

 

[laturcotte1]

Raised 3 barred rock hens, 1 barred rock rooster and 2 guineas together. The two guinea boys would spar as they do for dominance and the roo being the roo would break them up. Then one day war broke out. When the roo began to break them up both guinea attacked him. That was the end the guinea had to be separated to another pen and when the roo would free range he would attack the fence where the guinea where living and vs versa. It was awful my once serene loving family was gone. We rehomed the guinea boys to a home where they were lots of females and happy happy we were once again. Its the boy thing, the have to fight for dominance. You will probably have to free range and different times/days get all the boys their own girls. Poultry live is no easy.

 

[KimKimWilliamso]

Do you think that my rooster would go after guinea hens?