Well I have daily interaction with them. The kids also help me feed them and collect eggs. I currently have 2 turken, a leghorn, buff orp, welsummer,and a light brahma roos. Then I have 5 turken, leghorn,buff orp, silver laced wyandotte, barred rock, welsummer,light brahma, blue orp, and 3 black australorp hens. I am PRETTY sure I have 3 guinea roos and 1 guinea hen.. I bought them as day olds and have crappy luck. Also have a turkey hen but she is not insane. She is actually the only one acting normal. And these are all year old birds. I was going to pair off all my breeds for pure eggs but decided to just let them all run together. I was thinking of rehoming most of the roos but not sure.
n) ratio. If you did have separate breeding pens and 1roo to 2-3 hens should affect their behavior for the better, but if you keep them all free range I would go down to 2-3 roos. I find it hard myself to cull out extra roos. I tend to like them all. But it is better for the flock, my other animals, and me. I only know a few things about guineas, so I can't tell them apart. I have seen them interact will chickens though. They seem just a crazy as young roos. Attacking each other and chickens. The chickens usually lose. There are different methods of trying to tame crazy chickens. I make sure that my roos don't fight, top, and things of that nature will I am around. If I give treats I will allow the hens first and keep the roos at bay for awhile then let them have some. I try to show dominates in chicken terms. Hitting while they are trying to attack has made some worse, so if I have an aggressive roo I will go straight for him and pin him to the ground if I can catch him, wait till he stops trying to get away then grab him up and hold him for a short time then put him back down. Some people on here say they use a rake. I don't know what they do. Hope this helps some.
