Guineas -color questions & coop mates question

[MixedFlock23]

First question:
What colors are these two guineas?

(I do have one female & one male, correct?)

Second question:
Can they safely continue to live with a bachelor flock of four cockerels/roosters?

Background: My neighbor got 4 guineas in August. They were 2 or 4 months old then, I can’t remember. Two got eaten by something (fox?) a month or so ago. They used to roost in trees. Over a week ago, the remaining two guineas ran into my chicken coop (the neighbor has given them to us since they stood in my yard staring at my chickens all day anyway). They roosted the first week in the branches I have in the 11x20’ run. The last two nights they’ve went into the coop with my 4 bachelor cockerels (August 2020 hatch). My boys are 3 Silkies and an Ayam Cemani. Coop is 4x6’ with 8’ of roosts (2 roosts). There is no fighting or chasing in the pen, but all the birds are still relatively young. I have food & water in multiple spots. I don’t know if this is a good long term situation or not. My tentative plan is to make a door in the west side of the covered run and allow the cockerels and one guinea to free range and hope that the guinea returns at dusk with my boys. (Alternating which lone guinea I send out with the cockerels.) After a week or so, I’ll let all 6 of them free range together. Hopefully everyone will then be happy and safe.
(Currently we enter their run through the hen run, which is on the east side, but the cockerels don’t seem to remember how to get to their run, because at dusk they are standing outside the west side of their run instead of following the girls inside their run then walking to the boy run. Thus, the need for a west door with direct access to the range instead.)

 

[R2elk]

The Pied Pearl Gray is a hen. The Pearl Gray might be a male.

Guineas are a flock bird and do best in large numbers. I do not recommend having a flock of fewer than 10 guineas. I do not recommend housing them with chickens. Only other guineas understand guinea behavior.

 

[MixedFlock23]

Thank you! I couldn’t tell looking at online photos if the pearls had purple on their necks like the big one does.

Getting more guineas is not an option. I did read that they prefer flocks of 10+, but I don’t want any really. These were my neighbor’s birds (for his 20 wooded acres) but have taken to my chickens and stay in my 0.5 acre yard instead. I never wanted guineas. However, my daughter was very upset to find piles of feathers (the only thing left of the other guineas) and wants to try to keep them in our flock to save them from the foxes (great horned owl, hawks, bobcat, & coyotes too). My bachelor rooster coop has enough space (4 sq ft per bird), I think, chickenwise anyway. I don’t have another coop or run, nor do I want to build one for 10+ guineas. These two guineas are louder than all my other chickens (21) combined. No offense, but I can’t imagine 10! That said, they have settled down and quieted down since they voluntarily moved in with the cockerels. I just don’t want them to hit a year old or whatever and decide to kill my sweet boys.
So either I keep them in with the boys & hope for the best (letting them free range by day/coop at night), or I kick them out and maybe have to listen to them yelling at the chickens through the fence all day again until something eats them.
Obviously, if they aren’t happy in the cockerel flock, then in a fortnight or so, when all are free ranging together, the guineas won’t return to the coop. I guess I’ll see... and hope the next two weeks go as smoothly as the last week has.
Thank you!

 

[My2butterflies]

It might be best to just rehome them to someone who has other guineas.
Being a likely male and female pair things could get ugly once they start their first breeding season. Male guineas can and will kill other male guineas. I can only imagine the amount of damage they could do to a silky. Just their chasing alone could stress them to death.
I’m sure that’s not what you want to hear, but guineas really do need their own flock and coop.

 

[MixedFlock23]

Igor & Edith were just rehomed. My neighbor took them to his brother’s place several miles away and added them to their flock. He said seven of his brother’s guineas immediately came to check them out. Now they are in a flock of 9+. Hopefully they will be happier & thrive there.
I’m happier too. And my daughter is happy knowing her Silkie boys are safer without guineas.
Thank you, @R2elk & @My2butterflies !

 

[All4Eggz]

The Pied Pearl Gray is a hen. The Pearl Gray might be a male.

Guineas are a flock bird and do best in large numbers. I do not recommend having a flock of fewer than 10 guineas. I do not recommend housing them with chickens. Only other guineas understand guinea behavior.

Agreed. The pearl gray sounds like a male, while the pied pearl gray is a hen.
They could do well with a big flock of chickens, just not with all 4 cockerels. They will be constantly fighting

 

[MixedFlock23]

Agreed. The pearl gray sounds like a male, while the pied pearl gray is a hen.
They could do well with a big flock of chickens, just not with all 4 cockerels. They will be constantly fighting

They live with other guineas a few miles away.