My Pineapple (the Guinea fowl) is acting quite 'foul' (if you will...)

[pasdechat73]

Apologies for this late evening post, but it would be great to have some ideas.

Anyways, to make a long story short...our Pineapple (a male Guinea fowl) ended up in our yard on 10/21/18. No idea where he came from...

He's been with us ever since, but has begun to act aggressively toward my 2 roos: One Senior; Other Junior.

Any ideas about this sudden flip of the switch in his behaviour? I immediately thought of spring and mating (and he does claim 2 chicken wives) and all that territorial stuff...even though he's never exhibited such jealous tendencies in the past...

And to be honest, we love him dearly. He's just acting like an ass right now...

 

[duluthralphie]

Guineas be crazy!!

I have never had one that is truly “normal”.

I assume you live somewhere without snow and ice and spring comes before July..

I have seen them act sweet and luvable for a month (towards each other) then something happens and they want to kill one of their own.

I always had enough Guineas so they could keep their craziness in house, so to speak.

I would never recommend raising one guinea alone. I have no idea how you would introduce more to this one.

I think you need 8-10 at least to help curb the nutso psycho behavior.

Btw.. what makes you think your guinea is a male? Have you heard the sounds it makes and could you describe them to us?

Thanks and good luck.

 

[R2elk]

Apologies for this late evening post, but it would be great to have some ideas.

Anyways, to make a long story short...our Pineapple (a male Guinea fowl) ended up in our yard on 10/21/18. No idea where he came from...

He's been with us ever since, but has begun to act aggressively toward my 2 roos: One Senior; Other Junior.

Any ideas about this sudden flip of the switch in his behaviour? I immediately thought of spring and mating (and he does claim 2 chicken wives) and all that territorial stuff...even though he's never exhibited such jealous tendencies in the past...

And to be honest, we love him dearly. He's just acting like an ass right now...

Raging hormones. It is the start of breeding season. This is normal behavior for guinea fowl.

 

[duluthralphie]

Raging hormones. It is the start of breeding season. This is normal behavior for guinea fowl.

Normal and Guineas are seldom used in the same paragraph let alone sentence..

 

[duluthralphie]

And you mentioned his vocals (sounds) too...quite tenor and piercing. Everyone knows its him when he starts wailing...I should have named him "bird" after mr. Charlie parker...

Listen to this..

 

[R2elk]

Normal and Guineas are seldom used in the same paragraph let alone sentence..

Except when it comes to their nasty behaviors which is normal.

 

[R2elk]

So abnormal behavior is normal in these little criminal masterminds.....

It may be abnormal for other fowl but it is normal for guinea fowl.

 

[pasdechat73]

Normal and Guineas are seldom used in the same paragraph let alone sentence..

The few neighbours I have (we live in rural area) trip out over him. His personality is like no other. My friends native to Africa don't bat an eye as I guess they're everywhere in certain countries. Like I mentioned, my one friend mentioned they use sling shots to get them out of the trees and proceed to " sling shoot" at them once they hit the ground until they eventually slow down. They remind me of those folks you see on the cops show that are so high on drugs that you can shoot them a bunch and they still keep running...crack guinea!

 

[duluthralphie]

Guinea hens love to dominate... really really love to wear the pants in the family..

whichever it is good luck!

 

[duluthralphie]

Except when it comes to their nasty behaviors which is normal.

So abnormal behavior is normal in these little criminal masterminds.....