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Good for you. Other people have absolute horror stories about guineas injuring or killing their chickens, which is why I did a ton of...

Yup. Best case is you have enough space and a setup to where when the guineas start their chasing and feather pulling antics (in other...

Mine are very productive egg layers in season (April to October). I've gotten mine to use nesting boxes but it's tricky to do. Of they...

All of my roosters are friendlier to newcomers than any of the hens. A couple of them go out of their way to welcome younger birds I...

Preening is a sign they're relaxed. If you're around your chickens and they preen and sun or dust bathe that means they're comfortable...

Likely there's a hidden nest somewhere with all your missing eggs in it, unless the local wild-life finds it first. I had a couple...

Sun-bathing. It gets really fun when you walk out onto your back porch and a bunch of them are doing it as a group.

They're pretty territorial and will yell at anything that passes by. They also like to wander. I have 16 acres and mine still tried to...

Like Red Horse Ranch said, maybe at six weeks or so the females will start sounding off but usually it's a lot later than that (12 weeks+).

At least two different members have reported it happening.

I haven't seen that behavior. Every guinea that I had that "guh-wahked" turned out to be an egg layer.

I've heard that they may try to snatch small chicks, but I haven't really seen any of the ones around me exhibit anything remotely...

At their age they're good to move outside. If you're worried about cold nights put the heat plate in with them but unless it gets below...

The first couple weeks some of them sleep really weird. I even had ones that would be eating and then suddenly close their eyes and...

This topic is better suited to the guinea fowl forum, but here's what I know. After keeping chickens off and on for 25+ years, I ended...