introducing adult guinea fowl to adult chickens?

[hennedout]

Hello, I was wondering if its possible to introduce adult (but young) guineas to my flock of chickens. I have 8 (soon to be 12) chickens; all hens and one rooster. I would like the guineas around to scare off or just alarm when the neighborhood hawk is on the prowl. I recently lost two chickens to him and have declared war

I am going to be doing some run modification, right now the chickens fly in and out of the run as they please and roost in the trees. I am going to put netting on the top of my large run and would like it if the guineas can eventually coexist with the chickens.

I don't want to get the guineas if they will bully my chickens or won't be happy in a run. I would give them places to hide and their owns roosts of course but I would hate to have to get rid of them or just let them fend for themselves and free range.

any other tips on guineas?

thanks for the input!

 

[Tacampbell1973]

My neighbor has about twenty chickens and aboutas many guineas. They all coexist wonderfully but are free range. I now have 11 keets from them at about a month and a week and am slowly introducing them to my existing flock. so far so good. i am told they may just assume that they are chickens too since they are raised with them and i am hoping for this. I know it can be done. Mine are also free range chickens and the keets spend about two to four hours a day outside withthem while the weather holds. I dunno what to do when it doesnt as I don't havemuch in the way of a covered run. Am hoping by then the keets will be fully feathered. good luck to you.

 

[hennedout]

thanks for the info! I think I will try to get them and see how it goes