slinging each other around?

[artsyrobin]

i would seperate the guineas from the chickens- maybe put a divider in the run- they could do some serious damage- as far as the little hen- what breeds? you may need to pull her from the flock for her own safety-

 

[CountryBoy007]

My Guineas must be very well mannered, i have a male and a female and they are best pals they will sit up high on there roost and gawk at the other birds all day, sometimes the male flys 40 feet up in the air with two flaps of his wings and attacks a raven, by plummeting it to the ground with its feet and breaking its chest-bone:cool, its like it protects my young pullets and chicks from the predators, i love my guineas

 

[N. Virginia]

Hi Robin:
Thanks for the note. My little hen is a brown leghorn. I call her Mrs. Fry because her husband the rooster brown leghorn is Small Fry. She isn't missing any feathers, just runs and hides a lot. She does seem to get enough to eat and she sleeps with the flock. I have a ladder leaning against the wall and of course the 3 guineys are always on the top rung, along with various hens (not always the lead hen or the rooster), then the rest variously distributed on down. I thought that Mrs. Fry would have been always on the bottom rung, but they seem to bunch up on rungs 2 and 3 somewhat randomly, though Mrs. Fry and the Americaunas are never on the top rung with the guineys. Sometimes I find up to 5 on one rung (wooden ladder less than 2' wide). Right now I don't have the setup to separate Ms. Fry, but would of course if she is hurt or totally excluded from the flock rather than just chased around.

Do you all think that the guineys and hens will manage to get along since they were raised together? Or will the guineys get meaner and start hurting the chickens? I guess time will tell soon enough. I've been watching!
Thanks,
N. VA

 

[robin416]

The mating season is the most likely time that it will become dangerous for your chickens. Once the hormone start raging the Guineas become insane. If I'm going to see trouble from my flock its at that time of year.

Since my flock is larger I haven't seen any trouble with the Guineas going after my roos in several years. I only really saw it when I had something like five birds. Now with lots of male Guineas they've got all the sparring partners they need so they ignore my chickens.

 

[shelleyd2008]

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My guineas always went after the red chickens, I don't know what their deal is with that. Apparently they're like a fighting bull!

Now that we no longer have and red chickens (Rhode Island Reds), they've decided they hate barred birds. It was the BR roo's fault really, the first time I decided to let him and his girls out for a bit of free time he decided to pick a fight with a guinea and 4 or 5 of his buddies....Guineas are like an Italian mafia--"You mess with me, you mess with my whole family!"