Very unusual chick, Guinea / chicken hybrid!!

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Guinea Goonie said:
Hello: I worked my way through the postings. I am curious.... Do either of your Hybrids "crow" or do they make noises like a male or female guinea ?
Very interesting and for those of you who have been on BYC for a time, there have been other Guinea/chicken hybrids with wonderful stories and
pictures. Keep up the wonderful postings on your beautiful birds.:)
Guinea G.
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Do you have some liknks to those others please?
 
I haven't read every single post so if someone has brought this up I apologize in advance but I keep seeing the comments like these are infertile like mules, but at least 2% of mules are fertile and if you breed a mule back to a pure horse you get a genetically pure horse as the offspring, if it is paired with a donkey you get a genetically pure donkey. For some reason, you can not breed two mules successfully though, proving that they are not a viable species.

With that said, there is a very small potential for these, or at least some of them, to be fertile.
 
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My dad didn't believe me when I told him my only guinea which is a female has been fertilized by my male rooster. Can't wait to build a depressed enclosure so I can start collecting her eggs. Are guinea eggs different looking then chickens?
 
philter4 said:
I haven't read every single post so if someone has brought this up I apologize in advance but I keep seeing the comments like these are infertile like mules, but at least 2% of mules are fertile and if you breed a mule back to a pure horse you get a genetically pure horse as the offspring, if it is paired with a donkey you get a genetically pure donkey. For some reason, you can not breed two mules successfully though, proving that they are not a viable species.

With that said, there is a very small potential for these, or at least some of them, to be fertile.
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Yes I have heard this also! But I have also read that "wide" hybrids are almost always male and they have either underdeveloped or deformed sexual organs, thus you end up with very placid males with no sex drive at all.
 
joni1986 said:
My dad didn't believe me when I told him my only guinea which is a female has been fertilized by my male rooster. Can't wait to build a depressed enclosure so I can start collecting her eggs. Are guinea eggs different looking then chickens?
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Guinea eggs are quite small for the size of the bird laying them, they are often very pointed on one end! The shells are much thicker than chicken eggs too.
 
bemba said:
Yes I have heard this also! But I have also read that "wide" hybrids are almost always male and they have either underdeveloped or deformed sexual organs, thus you end up with very placid males with no sex drive at all.
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Fertile males are extremely rare and almost always gelded (called a "John Mule") but females are fairly common, some research says as high as 10% but most agree around 2%, not sure that makes it "common" or not but it is a significant number considering how many mules are produced annually.
 
Aren't most male mules are gelded because they will become obnoxious and dangerous like ungelded jacks and stallions and they will engage in mating behavior? however their sperm just is not fertile due to chromosomes being uneven.

Many female mules will have estrus cycles.. think most are still infertile though?

But it has been bought up that perhaps perception of very low fertility might be due to lack of access of intact males to the fertile mules... also stallions can be choosy about breeding and may refuse to breed mules(mares tend to be not very choosy when in full heat). I haven't seen anything about mules being particular about mates. So potentially there could be a fertile mule with an intact stallion but you would never know it as the stallion refuses to breed her....

It would be interesting to have herds of cycling mules with intact male mules, jacks and/or stallions... especially jacks and stallions trained to accept jennies as breeding prospects.
 
philter4 said:
I haven't read every single post so if someone has brought this up I apologize in advance but I keep seeing the comments like these are infertile like mules, but at least 2% of mules are fertile and if you breed a mule back to a pure horse you get a genetically pure horse as the offspring, if it is paired with a donkey you get a genetically pure donkey. For some reason, you can not breed two mules successfully though, proving that they are not a viable species.

With that said, there is a very small potential for these, or at least some of them, to be fertile.
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This type of hybrid is 100% infertile and will die within 18 months but she can breed more so no issues there
 

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