Pretty much normal guinea behavior for guineas raised and housed with chickens. I raise and house my guineas separately and have no such problems.
I’m on some other groups where guineas are often kept with chickens, and I think I few BYC posters on this forum also do. However, I’m always surprised when it works, as it didn’t work at all for me. I had to split them up and rehome most of the guineas. Now that they are separate, I can let them all out to free range without much issue. I know some people will cull the individual guineas that attack their chickens, so that might be part of their strategy…
The ones that it seems to work for often don't tell everything that is going on. The other point is that the ones that it works for have much more than the normal amount of space allotted for chickens. Those that try to squeeze guineas into an already crowded chicken coop are going to have problems.
When breeding season starts is when they turn into terrorists.
so do you think i should add two guinea fowl females to my 2 males? Or just keep them with two female chickens? I will add an extra chicken coop for them separately from existing one too
I think that guineas are best kept by themselves in a minimum flock of at least ten. They are a flock bird and do best in large groups. I brood, raise and house my guineas separately from my other poultry. They leave the other poultry alone and the other poultry leave them alone when they are out free ranging in the same area at the same time.
