Is this Guinea a hen??????? I NEED TO KNOW!

[mississippifarmboy]

Yes, they and and do both make the single note call, but ONLY the females can make the two note "buck-wheat" call.

 

[shamblescross]

here's my question/comment: would the dominant female in the flock be the only one to make the 'buck-wheat' call? I have 8 guineas and have only heard one make the distinctive 'buck-wheat'. and what are the characteristics you're looking for to determine the sex from a picture, or just looking at the guineas?

 

[gmendoza]

Also waddles are alot smaller and they dont flare out like the roos.

Also they have a buckwheat call.

 

[featherz]

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With mine, ALL the females went buckwheat.. over and over and over and over.. LOL.

 

[cgmccary]

With my 14 Guineas, the two syllable "buck-wheat, buck-wheat . . ." (some describe as "come-back, come-back, . . .") call of the females started pretty young (when they were about 6 weeks old). And had I known it, they tried at about 4 weeks old. The call is the best way to discern the sex of your Guinea. Since all my females don't call at the same time & are not in the same place, I have not determined my ratio exactly but best I can tell, 8-10 females & 4-6 males.

You can fooled by the physical characteristics (i.e. Not wattle size, nor crest size, nor weight/size of Guinea -- none of these traits are very reliable to determine M/F). I have noticed generally, what I know to be females seem to have somewhat smaller wattles BUT not always true-- e.g. I saw a small wattle Guinea "cover" another small wattle Guinea -- hope I wasn't seeing something else.

 

[RockyToggRanch]

I was thinking with mine that the males are the ones with the huge, cup shaped wattles and the females wattles are flatter and closer to their faces. It's impossible to tell how many are making different calls when I go in to feed them they're ALL singing at the same time.

So, the small wattes could be males? Can the huge cupped wattles be female?

 

[Cowgirl71]

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It can vary a LOT, but I've noticed that the females TEND to have the large cup shaped wattles, and the males TEND to have bright red small flat wattles.

 

[speckledhen]

Here are mine, at least the ones I used to have. First is one of the males, Radar--big, longer wattles:

Lavender female:

Pearl female:

The other male, Dodger, in lockup for beating up my RIR hens:

 

[cgmccary]

"Radar" & "Dodger" -- great names for a Guinea-- fits them!

 

[speckledhen]

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Thanks, I liked those names. Wish I could have kept those bad boys, but I'll have guineas again some day, somehow.