Guineas chasing chickens

[garagegirl]

My guineas are about 5 months old and they have started chasing my chickens away from the food bowl. I have 7 guineas 6 ducks and about 80 chickens. Guineas,ducks and about 5 chickens are in one pen. The other chickens go in the barn at night. I let the penned up ones out first to eat then the barn ones but the guineas start chasing them and pulling feathers out. After this happens for a few minutes then the guineas go about their day. They all have been raised together. They don't bother the ducks.

 

[Hotcookie]

You need to add more guineas to your flock. In order for the guineas to be happy within their own little "group", you need to have around 12 of them. When you have more guineas, they tend to ignore the other birds in the barnyard, and worry about maintaining their own place within the group. The males will be too busy chasing each other around like crazy, rather than picking on the chickens.