Male guinea attacked my two year old

[Raenh]

Might he have been protecting the flock, if you have a bobcat issue - he might have smelt it and mistaken her for it or seen it nearby - especially if he had never done anything aggressive like that before.

Moot point now, since he's gone...

 

[Unicornlife3316]

Might he have been protecting the flock, if you have a bobcat issue - he might have smelt it and mistaken her for it or seen it nearby - especially if he had never done anything aggressive like that before.

Moot point now, since he's gone...

When this happened, we hadn’t had a bobcat issue.

I’m still not 100% sure it was an attack.. she used to help me feed them when they were keets, so it could have been he thought she had a treat for him but like you said, moot point. She’s no longer allowed to walk around with them anymore, and is NEVER unsupervised if the guineas are out. I would put a bullet in ANYTHING that was a danger to my daughter.

 

[50-45-1]

Babies! What babies? You had not mentioned babies before. If there were babies maybe that would answer the aggression question. I have had a female guinea show up with keets and the entire group become serigate parents. (Excuse my spelling) all of the group on edge and ultra protective. This is how the species has survived on the Afican plain for centuries protecting there young is first priority just like it is for for us. I will offer a different viewpoint. Now that the adult is gone, and i will say he probably died trying to save those (babies), the remaining ones will disapear fast. Having raised children on my farm i have always known to watch and train my child how to be around livestock. The baby calf one day is someday going to be the 600 lb steer. I dont expect him to behave the same at both those life cycles.

 

[Raenh]

I think she meant when the male was a baby, not that there were babies

 

[50-45-1]

Sorry, if you read post #7 they say there are no nests because she has no females (i have had guineas for 20 years and still have a hard time telling males from females sometimes). also in the post #10 about the bobcat she says the aggressive male was taken and also one of the babies got killed too and now there are 8 left that are doing well. So at this point The Aggressive Guinea is gone. the only problem now is if there are Babies out there with no protector......

 

[Raenh]

Which would explain why the male attacked... unless it was like she suggested it might have been looking for a treat. I don't know a thing about Guinea Fowl behavior - just observing.