what got my guinea....

[featheredfriendlover]

my male guinea i got last year died yesterday. i have no idea what happened. i was cleaning the coop bc i got 5 new hens yesterday and i heard flapping. then i went outside to investigate and i found my male guinea laying under my peacock cage with blood comming out of his mouth and eyes. what the heck could have happened. could he have gotton attacked. i would have though so bc hes very vigilant about predators around him. anyway any help would be GREATLY APPRECIATED!!
thanks.
cole.

 

[damselfish]

Sorry about your guinea. That does sound really odd, did he have any other marks on him?

 

[featheredfriendlover]

nope =[ and that's what confuses me the most. it was all in his head. no where else.

 

[Wanda]

is it possible he got his head caught in the cage? Maybe the flapping was him trying to pull his head out and he injured himself doing that.

Wanda

 

[featheredfriendlover]

no. he was free ranging. he was under the peacock cage.

 

[dianneS]

I've had racoons get some of my birds and they just kind of go for the throat and kill them, don't eat them. I just had a skunk invasion and those chickens had injuries only to their heads and faces, no where else. It was actually hard to find injuries on some of them at all, but I knew it was a skunk because of the smell and the chickens did retaliate and killed the mother skunks baby!

 

[Guinea Goonie]

So sorry for your loss. I have no idea what happened and would be as stumped as you are.

 

[featheredfriendlover]

but it was in daylite. about 5:30. i was cleaning the coop. !!!!

i mean he was mean to the roosters and chickens and i didnt like that he did that but once he died im trying to hold back tears. i really am sad.

 

[Wanda]

I was referring to the peacock cage, could he have stuck his head in the cage? Was there a peacock in there that could have grabbed him? I had a hen grab one of my other hens through a crate once, I was surprised she could do it but she got her beak in enough to grab the other hen.

Wanda

 

[sred98]

That was my first thought, too. Could the Peacock have grabbed him through the bars and held on? You would have heard a lot of flapping if that had happened, too! Was it just blood, or did you look to see if there were any injuries there?

So sorry for your loss,

Shelly