Peafowl / Guinea Hybrid

[oldguy]

I know a guy who hatches an occasional peafowl / guinea cross by running peacocks with his guineas. He says you have to incubate about a hundred guinea eggs to get one to hatch and sometimes it won't live, but when it does, it usually does well.


He also crosses an occasional pheasant with a chicken and has one of those now.

It's not something i would want to try, but interesting none-the-less.

 

[deerman]

http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/Guineas/BRKGuinHybrid.html#PeaGuin


Been done for years, peafowl x guineas dont live long.
Saw chicken x pheasant back in the 60s

 

[Duck Keeper]

I saw that before, but is it just me, or does the naked neck x guinea look like a vulture? ;

 

[happyhensny]

I thought the poor little thinkg looked like a vulture too. Wierd.

 

[sparkles2307]

Ugh creepy vulture looking things! Ish!

 

[Ricky Crawford]

I was just wondering what kind of noise would come out of that cross?

 

[spectrumranch]

Our peafowl/guinea crosses did not make much noise at all. Our guinea/chicken crosses are usually more vocal, it sounds like a squeaky guinea.

Randy

www.spectrumranch.net or www.sosranch.net

 

[Kev]

Randy, one common thing said about those hybrids is that they don't live past a couple years.. has that been your experience?

Also what colors peafowl & guineas crossed? I wonder about white peafowl x white guinea & pied x white etc.. as this is a good way to find out if the color mutations are homologies or not....(if white pea x white guinea= white hybrids it shows the white are "the same" in both)

 

[Mary Of Exeter]

Those turken guineas DO look like vultures! And look at the picture in the 4th row from the top. Looks like a hawk!

 

[muscovy94]

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Hey do you have any pics of your hybrids? And another thing, do you AI or do you just let them run together? I've wanted to try this for a long time. They are so neat looking.