- Jun 4, 2014
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Exactly what the title says....
I have been raising guineas since little keets and they are now almost 11 weeks old. We have had them outside in their own big coop for the past five weeks and we just began letting them free range a little. They have absolutely loved it. We were planning on starting to let them out everyday until a new guinea showed up. It is a much older guinea and from the sounds, I can tell it is a male. It is actually smaller than my alpha male, but bigger than the other 3 guineas. It comes over every morning and hangs out outside the coop until the late evening when it goes home. I figured this would be no problem, so we allowed the guineas to mingle. The first thing it did was go after our alpha male. Our male does not fight back and instead just runs and tries to get back in the coop. The neighbor's guinea has pecked some feathers off of our guinea, and I don't want our guinea to get hurt. The neighbor's guinea also attacked our 11 week old rooster, so it is obviously an aggressive bird.
So, is there a way to bring peace? Should I just let the two males figure things out on their own? I definitely don't want my chickens getting hurt and it's obvious the neighbor's guinea shows know interest in our other male or 2 other female guineas. Thoughts?
I have been raising guineas since little keets and they are now almost 11 weeks old. We have had them outside in their own big coop for the past five weeks and we just began letting them free range a little. They have absolutely loved it. We were planning on starting to let them out everyday until a new guinea showed up. It is a much older guinea and from the sounds, I can tell it is a male. It is actually smaller than my alpha male, but bigger than the other 3 guineas. It comes over every morning and hangs out outside the coop until the late evening when it goes home. I figured this would be no problem, so we allowed the guineas to mingle. The first thing it did was go after our alpha male. Our male does not fight back and instead just runs and tries to get back in the coop. The neighbor's guinea has pecked some feathers off of our guinea, and I don't want our guinea to get hurt. The neighbor's guinea also attacked our 11 week old rooster, so it is obviously an aggressive bird.
So, is there a way to bring peace? Should I just let the two males figure things out on their own? I definitely don't want my chickens getting hurt and it's obvious the neighbor's guinea shows know interest in our other male or 2 other female guineas. Thoughts?
