Guinea Fowl Learning Thread!

[The Angry Hen]

Hey Folks,

It's me- The Angry Hen! How are you all doing today? Can you guys believe it's September? Well... Honestly- I can not adjust it in my mind how time has been traveling.

Would you like to hear my story? Please get your popcorn and prepare your sofa.

I have owned Guinea Fowl since the year of 2010... My newest rule is to never have a farm without Guinea's! I hatched them that year, I hatched about 7-9. I had a few pied, one bronze (of which I am questioning it if he's a bronze now) and one chocolate, I think.

Throughout the years I got mad. (Don't worry, mad at myself). I left the Guinea's roaming outside when I went inside for a cup of coffee with my parents...

Dang, the year or 2014 was the fox attack. Luckily, no more than two Guinea's were killed. Two is too many though. Foxes are no longer welcome on my property...

Last thing they see in their rear-view mirror is lead. Sorry- but it's true.

Ever since then they are not free ranged. I would free range them with an eye out at all times... But they just don't stay in my view.

So- not long after the twenty-fourteen-fox-attack, I bought a pair of female guineas for my male's. Dang, oops, they no female. The one was a hen meanwhile other was a male.

He was lavender and she was pied. Fights were a big problem then, now that they're oldies but goodies, they aren't fighting half as much.

So- the bronze (unknown if bronze) male's hen and brothers had sadly passed away in the nine (I think) years since.. The "adopted" lavender male came aggressive after a year of peacefulness, he drew blood in fights...
I had sold him to a good home with plenty of hens.

Next- my Bronze became lonely. Poor Henny, he was all alone. I decided it was time to get him a friend.~Few weeks passed- no adds for hens (female Guinea). ~

I found a cold chicken egg a hen deserted. I candled it. "Chirp, chirp." It was alive! Holy smokes, it was ALIVE! She hatched... In my room. When she got older and started laying eggs, I put her with the flock. She was thrown out by each flock I have because she had a giant comb.

My Guinea and her were lonely in their own coops and lives... Wait a second! "I should add her with him!" So on... I did. They now live together.

(He might or might not be fertile anymore... But my Dad's not up for Guinea-kens. Part of me feels if he is fertile I want him getting with a female Guinea. Will it hurt the relationship between the two lonely's if I got another hen?)

But that's my story. I'm sticking with it because it's true. I have SO MANY FREAKING STORIES about my late Guinea flock!! (Ask if interested! )

Please help me learn more so if I get more Guinea's in the far future I know what to do. I would love to cross breed varieties. What varieties are there?

Please join my thread and we will learn together.

Thank you so much for reading this, it means a lot that you think I'm entertaining and my history is interesting. Ha ha. Have a nice night now.

Sincerely,
-The Angry Hen

 

[R2elk]

You need another option for your poll. There's nothing wrong with being Crazy!

You can check out the Guinea Farm and The Guinea Fowl Color Chart to get an idea of some of the many different color varieties of guineas.

My recommendation is to get a big batch (minimum of 10) keets to raise next year. If your chicken and guinea get along, let them be. If any of her eggs hatch, it is my understanding that they will be sterile and won't be producing anymore of themselves. They are also said to live short lives with a few people claiming a few longer lived ones.

Good luck.

 

[The Angry Hen]

You need another option for your poll. There's nothing wrong with being Crazy!

You can check out the Guinea Farm and The Guinea Fowl Color Chart to get an idea of some of the many different color varieties of guineas.

My recommendation is to get a big batch (minimum of 10) keets to raise next year. If your chicken and guinea get along, let them be. If any of her eggs hatch, it is my understanding that they will be sterile and won't be producing anymore of themselves. They are also said to live short lives with a few people claiming a few longer lived ones.

Good luck.

Hello There,

Thank you for your response!
Ha ha! Yes, you are right. I will change it.

Thank you for the links, I will look into them.

Thank you for your suggestion, I will probably end up letting my hen and the Guinea be. I have enough dominance issues to take care of. That is fascinating, thank you for helping me learn something new today!

Sincerely,
-The Angry Hen

 

[BYCforlife]

Hey Folks,

It's me- The Angry Hen! How are you all doing today? Can you guys believe it's September? Well... Honestly- I can not adjust it in my mind how time has been traveling.

Would you like to hear my story? Please get your popcorn and prepare your sofa.

I have owned Guinea Fowl since the year of 2010... My newest rule is to never have a farm without Guinea's! I hatched them that year, I hatched about 7-9. I had a few pied, one bronze (of which I am questioning it if he's a bronze now) and one chocolate, I think.

Throughout the years I got mad. (Don't worry, mad at myself). I left the Guinea's roaming outside when I went inside for a cup of coffee with my parents...

Dang, the year or 2014 was the fox attack. Luckily, no more than two Guinea's were killed. Two is too many though. Foxes are no longer welcome on my property...

Last thing they see in their rear-view mirror is lead. Sorry- but it's true.

Ever since then they are not free ranged. I would free range them with an eye out at all times... But they just don't stay in my view.

So- not long after the twenty-fourteen-fox-attack, I bought a pair of female guineas for my male's. Dang, oops, they no female. The one was a hen meanwhile other was a male.

He was lavender and she was pied. Fights were a big problem then, now that they're oldies but goodies, they aren't fighting half as much.

So- the bronze (unknown if bronze) male's hen and brothers had sadly passed away in the nine (I think) years since.. The "adopted" lavender male came aggressive after a year of peacefulness, he drew blood in fights...
I had sold him to a good home with plenty of hens.

Next- my Bronze became lonely. Poor Henny, he was all alone. I decided it was time to get him a friend.~Few weeks passed- no adds for hens (female Guinea). ~

I found a cold chicken egg a hen deserted. I candled it. "Chirp, chirp." It was alive! Holy smokes, it was ALIVE! She hatched... In my room. When she got older and started laying eggs, I put her with the flock. She was thrown out by each flock I have because she had a giant comb.

My Guinea and her were lonely in their own coops and lives... Wait a second! "I should add her with him!" So on... I did. They now live together.

(He might or might not be fertile anymore... But my Dad's not up for Guinea-kens. Part of me feels if he is fertile I want him getting with a female Guinea. Will it hurt the relationship between the two lonely's if I got another hen?)

But that's my story. I'm sticking with it because it's true. I have SO MANY FREAKING STORIES about my late Guinea flock!! (Ask if interested! )

Please help me learn more so if I get more Guinea's in the far future I know what to do. I would love to cross breed varieties. What varieties are there?

Please join my thread and we will learn together.

Thank you so much for reading this, it means a lot that you think I'm entertaining and my history is interesting. Ha ha. Have a nice night now.

Sincerely,
-The Angry Hen

Great story! I want Guinea Fowl now....

 

[The Angry Hen]

Great story! I want Guinea Fowl now....

Thank you! Ha ha, maybe you'll get some one day!

-Kaitlyn

 

[BYCforlife]

So.... about those stories?

 

[BYCforlife]

Thank you! Ha ha, maybe you'll get some one day!

-Kaitlyn

Hopefully! I really like them.

 

[The Angry Hen]

So.... about those stories?

Okay, the first story...

I was outside one day when the pool gate was open, expecting everybody would get along... They started a fight. The one male and the lavender male were the ones fighting.

I still remember them fighting right next to the chain-link fence... The lavender male was pushed against the fence somehow and got his head stuck! That bump on his crazy head was in the link! He literally took his legs and tried to pull his head out! I had to cut the fence and gently retrieve his head. They didn't fight after that...

Another story:

My Dad and I were just going outside to let out the chickens, my male guinea hen (the one who lives with the chicken-hen) was flat, flat as a pancake under a slab of sheet rock!! I swear he has nine lives, we thought he was a goner, we took him out and lay him in a shoe box, luckily the next day he was a bit back to Guinea fowl-shape!

And again:

Whenever the hen (Guinea) would lay eggs in the woods, the male's would run up and down the street staying guard! They watched the road like a hawk.

Next:

(I swear they all have nine lives) This must have happened five times, one of the brown male guinea's got their long toe nails stuck in a piece of hardware clothe! He was dangling by his foot up in the rafters!!

Next:

My female Guinea hen was known for opening small plastic drawers in a project of my Dad's... Onetime she took it to the next level!

She stepped in red painted and walked everywhere, I was so worried it was blood! Then she dropped washer all the ways up the barn steps! She made a collection!

They are quite the characters!!!

Hopefully! I really like them.

Me too.

-Kaitlyn

 

[The Angry Hen]

Hello Guys,

So I just found a few photos of when my Guinea's were Keets. Quite the lookers!

Only one female hatched when they were eggs. The rest were male.

Here's Henny, the one who has the hen for a mate.

-The Angry Hen

 

[R2elk]

Hello Guys,

So I just found a few photos of when my Guinea's were Keets. Quite the lookers!

Here's Henny, the one who has the hen for a mate.

-The Angry Hen

From this image, I would say that Henny is and always was a bronze.