Raising Guinea Fowl 101

[holm25]

Looks like good stock

Where is the white on this one? The one of the left is cool

It is good stock!

She has white in her primary feathers but you cant see it in this pic. I really like the whites but not as much as the pied...

 

[R2elk]

One of my "pied" Guineas. She is the loudest of them all! But we love their racket!

It is good stock!

She has white in her primary feathers but you cant see it in this pic. I really like the whites but not as much as the pied...

The one on the left is a pinto. The central one is a pearl gray guinea and is not a pied guinea. Pearl gray guineas with one or a few white primaries are common and are not pied. If she was a pied guinea, she would have white breast feathers.

 

[duluthralphie]

The one on the left is a pinto.  The central one is a pearl gray guinea and is not a pied guinea.  Pearl gray guineas with one or a few white primaries are common and are not pied.  If she was a pied guinea, she would have white breast feathers. 

I did not know that. I was told if they had white feathers they were lied. So they need white breasts. Cool. I did not know pinto either.

I am so smart it amazes me I could learn anything else

 

[Laurel Meadows]

Hi everyone! 3 Guineas showed up at our place a little over a month ago and after talking with our neighbors, no one seems to know where they came from. Apparently, they like it here because they have never left! They roost high in the tree near one group of chicken coops and forage around along side our free range chickens during the day. They have found the waterers and feeders and have been very quiet for the most part. Based on watching YouTube videos to listen to sounds and calls, I believe there is one female and 2 males. One concern we have is with winter weather approaching. They are very skittish so we don't think we can catch them to coop train them. We have a lean-to that stays nice and dry that they can get in anytime, but I haven't seen them go in there yet. I would appreciate any feedback on trying to care for these semi-wild guineas. Thanks!

 

[R2elk]

I did not know that. I was told if they had white feathers they were lied. So they need white breasts. Cool. I did not know pinto either.

I am so smart it amazes me I could learn anything else

Just a couple of white wing feathers does not equal pied. Pieds typically have nearly the lower half of them being white. I have not seen any evidence that indicates that the single white flight feathers are related to the white gene that controls white and pied guineas.

 

[R2elk]

Hi everyone! 3 Guineas showed up at our place a little over a month ago and after talking with our neighbors, no one seems to know where they came from. Apparently, they like it here because they have never left! They roost high in the tree near one group of chicken coops and forage around along side our free range chickens during the day. They have found the waterers and feeders and have been very quiet for the most part. Based on watching YouTube videos to listen to sounds and calls, I believe there is one female and 2 males. One concern we have is with winter weather approaching. They are very skittish so we don't think we can catch them to coop train them. We have a lean-to that stays nice and dry that they can get in anytime, but I haven't seen them go in there yet. I would appreciate any feedback on trying to care for these semi-wild guineas. Thanks!

My recommendation is to continue doing what you are doing. You might put some food and water in the lean-to and a place where they can roost in there.

Good luck.

 

[Laurel Meadows]

My recommendation is to continue doing what you are doing.  You might put some food and water in the lean-to and a place where they can roost in there. 

Good luck.

That sounds good, thanks! I should have mentioned there are places to roost in the lean-to. The feed and water is also close by so if the tree turns out to be not to their liking when the cold sets in, hopefully they will go to the building!

 

[Victoria-nola]

ILLNESS OR WEIRDNESS???

This morning when I went to open the guinea-coop door, there was a guinea on the floor, in the corner, all sort of jammed in, behind where the door would be stopped open. My first impulse was that there was something wrong with it. I picked her up, and it started screeching and struggling, so I let her go. She ran straight outside and when the other guineas went outside they chased her. I was afraid they might really attack her but they didn't.

Then this evening, it was late dusk and I was out there to shut the door. Turned out there was one guinea outside the coop. I waited and she went to the open door and stood there, but wouldn't go in. I crept up closer and she stayed there in place, I went toward her to encourage her to go in the door and she started running around, but she ran in circles around me and on the second try of grabbing her I was able to keep hold of her. She seemed disoriented before the circling, and I've never seen a guinea circle me like that before, much less continue doing it and let me catch them.

I put her in the coop and she stuck by the edge and crept to the back. Do not right now know if she got up on the roost, their solar evening light had not yet come on, perhaps once it does, she'll be able to see to jump up. I don't know if it's the same guinea both times but I suspect so.

Does this behavior ring any bells for anyone? Any thoughts or ideas?

 

[perchie.girl]

ILLNESS OR WEIRDNESS???

This morning when I went to open the guinea-coop door, there was a guinea on the floor, in the corner, all sort of jammed in, behind where the door would be stopped open. My first impulse was that there was something wrong with it. I picked her up, and it started screeching and struggling, so I let her go. She ran straight outside and when the other guineas went outside they chased her. I was afraid they might really attack her but they didn't.

Then this evening, it was late dusk and I was out there to shut the door. Turned out there was one guinea outside the coop. I waited and she went to the open door and stood there, but wouldn't go in. I crept up closer and she stayed there in place, I went toward her to encourage her to go in the door and she started running around, but she ran in circles around me and on the second try of grabbing her I was able to keep hold of her. She seemed disoriented before the circling, and I've never seen a guinea circle me like that before, much less continue doing it and let me catch them.

I put her in the coop and she stuck by the edge and crept to the back. Do not right now know if she got up on the roost, their solar evening light had not yet come on, perhaps once it does, she'll be able to see to jump up. I don't know if it's the same guinea both times but I suspect so.

Does this behavior ring any bells for anyone? Any thoughts or ideas?

sounds like Guinea Pecking order wierdness... Keep an eye on her... she may have and injured wing or something to make her suddenly different from the others.

deb

 

[Victoria-nola]

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ok, thank you. I will.

--V