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Kassaundra said:
I don't think it is genetically possible, but a chicken can cross w/ a guinea but the offspring are sickly and weak, I believe sterile too, but not sure on that.
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From what I've been told a chicken crossed with anything will be sterile, except when crossed with pheasants or another chicken.
 
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draye said:
From what I've been told a chicken crossed with anything will be sterile, except when crossed with pheasants or another chicken.
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You know, in my experience you hear about a chicken crossing the road, but I've never heard it asked why the chicken crossed the guinea.

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I would think some tom turkeys would mount a chicken since there not that smart but they would kill/hurt a chicken in the process cause of there weight. It's just like having a mule, only some male donkeys will have fun with female horses. It all depends on the donkey.
 
alije said:
Chicken can cross with a guinea... it happens rarely, but birds you get are beautiful and interesting:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/834929/very-unusual-chick-guinea-chicken-hybrid

http://www.flickr.com/groups/hybridbirds/discuss/72157627809149735/
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Thanks for that second link! Had wanted to see what a large heavy breed crossed with guinea would look like...

I tried isolating a very "randy" NN roo with a guinea hen.. no luck- he found her too ugly? Part of the reason for that was he carried recessive white and the guinea was a white, wanted to see if the white was the "same"- a pure white hybrid would be a confirmation. which has been the case for a lavender chicken crossed with a "lavender" quail(I think the color was called another name in the quail hobby? Blue?) resulting in lavender colored hybrids. Way cool....

Anyways as I noted in the first link, part of the problem is the body can become too good at eliminating sperm from other species so the 'exotic' sperm get killed before reaching the yolk. So if a chicken very willingly breeds a guinea hen, eventually her body 'learns' to better recognize and kill off the chicken sperm before they reach the yolks. Result is fertility can go down no matter how many times he breeds her.

I have a friend who has some peacocks that regularly breed chicken hens. However they also have chicken roosters and to date she has never hatched a hybrid. Guessing the above is the reason and also, my own guess- perhaps chicken sperm easily out-competes the peafowl sperm? There is a thread on here on peafowl- chicken hybrid IIRC, were result of a hen only flock with perhaps only peacocks, no peahens.
 

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