Need some help understanding Guinea Fowl

[Sydney65]

I will agree that some hens can act monogamous and if you have a male that seems so, that is the exception and not the rule. With equal numbers of males and females, I have watched males breed other hens than their mate and have seen dominant males take multiple hens leaving non-dominant males without a mate.

In the spring the females appear to choose their mates but later on dominant males will take other hens away from their chosen mate.

Old thread, forum is posting "other posts" that are old. But thought this was important, bc everything says they are monogamous which can be misleading if someone is expecting eggs/hatchlings from a certain pair and wonder why their lavender "pair" hatched a gray, or receive eggs said to be from such a pair.