Not sure if I get to call my juvenile guinea group the “juveniles” anymore! Just saw the most dominant younger group cock mating the very most submissive, fringe hen in the group. I haven’t seen any pairing activity going on but have seen some hen invitations to mate that were unsuccessful... It’s a typical OK day for this time of year - highs in the 40s and lows in the 20s, so I’m not sure why they seem so early as compared to last year. I really hope that they all hold off on the egg laying for awhile...
My BIL had guineas for a while and never had success with natural brooding either...his birds were too busy to be bothered with a month of sitting still!
Concord’s poor baby, Viceroy, was a basket case when I gave up and took her. I had other keets that I had hatched from the giant communal nest (hatched about 55!) but they were a month older so I had to separate Viceroy using a “look don’t touch approach”. She would call and call to the older keets and desperately try to get to them, until she broke through at about a month old. They actually treated her and little Victor (2 weeks younger than Viceroy) quite well, so I left them all together then. Viceroy and Victor are now around 5 months old and pretty happy with their flock of “juveniles”.
