Guineas and chickens

[My2butterflies]

I’m with R2elk on not housing them with chickens.
Ive only been through one breeding season, but they do get brutal. I had 13, 7 females and 6 males. I still ended up losing a male to the dominant male killing him. It was very sad.
I can’t imagine chickens would be able to handle that level and intensity of aggression.

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

I know that some people keep guineas and chickens together and it seems to work. More power to them! However, I know from personal experience that it can also go spectacularly wrong. From reading on this forum, it almost always goes wrong for the guineas. They are aggressive in a way that guineas don’t know how to handle. My chickens and ducks ended up terrified of my 3 mo old guinea fowl, I didn’t even get to their breeding season! I do think that chickens and guineas might be able to coexist if allowed to keep separate from each other, then meet while free ranging.