Outcast guinea question

[juls_farm]

Hello, would welcome your thoughts on my outcast guinea.
I have 8 of them, got them as 1 week-old keets, and they have been together in the coop/run ever since (for 7 months). This is their first week of free-ranging. I observed that one - the smallest - guinea stays far away from the rest of the flock. I feel that my largest white guinea is a male and chases the smallest away. Is it normal and expected, like with roosters who fight and chase each other until the pecking order is established? Or should I isolate the white 'bully' guinea for a while?

 

[mkeawsh]

My one young male gets chased by my old men. I didn't worry about it with the last flock. He always stays close enough and sometimes ends up chasing an old man away. I just left mine out 2 weeks ago and they are learning to live with the older ones. It's nature. They are vying for position for a girl. Besides at night, the old men go into the barn on a beam and the youngins go into their covered flight cage. So I figure my young man gets his opportunity being with the girls.

 

[Sydney65]

Hello, would welcome your thoughts on my outcast guinea.
I have 8 of them, got them as 1 week-old keets, and they have been together in the coop/run ever since (for 7 months). This is their first week of free-ranging. I observed that one - the smallest - guinea stays far away from the rest of the flock. I feel that my largest white guinea is a male and chases the smallest away. Is it normal and expected, like with roosters who fight and chase each other until the pecking order is established? Or should I isolate the white 'bully' guinea for a while?

My 6 are 8 mos. From the get go, my lav was smaller, quieter,& outcast. He is chased,picked,blocked from getting inside the coop and to food. He would wedge himself on the framing boards to get away from the others, so we put shelves up for him, one inside the coop, and one in the run where he can eat in peace. Once we introduced him to them, he went straight to them, and no one else does.
When I let them out to free range during the day, I do it in shifts. One, so that he and one of the girls can forage in peace. Two because when my girls are all out together, they go to my neighbor's to dust bathe in HER flower beds . When split up, everyone stays in our yard.
My grays are larger than the rest- I guess it's like big dogs-nothing to prove, so they they don't do these things. But the RPs & lav are roughly the same size, and they're the ones who bully him (and the female RP pecks the Male RP's feet, but no one else's, so he wears shoes now. We tried isolating but you can't do it for very long, or you create new problems, so for us, giving him his own space to get to seems to have been the best option.

 

[juls_farm]

Thank you for responding, everybody. I saw that the bully is gone today (probably nested on the ground outside of the coop last night and got taken) , so now we have peace and quiet. I will keep your ideas in mind for future!

 

[mkeawsh]

Thank you for responding, everybody. I saw that the bully is gone today (probably nested on the ground outside of the coop last night and got taken) , so now we have peace and quiet. I will keep your ideas in mind for future!