quail-raised guineafowl

[R2elk]

ratio for guineafowl should be 1 male for 4-5 females.

The proper ratio of male to female guinea fowl is 1:1. For the most part they form bonded pairs. Not all male guineas will accept more than one female.

 

[R2elk]

a flock of 10 guineafowl with a ratio of 1:4 can be raised with a flock of leghorns with a male:female ratio of 1:7 in a spacious quarter-of-an acre with minimal fighting.

This is really bad advice.

The space is critical. Too many people think that they can cram guineas into the same small area that they already have over populated with chickens. Guineas need far more space than chickens need.

By not following the well known proper ratio of one male to one female guinea, you are not allowing them to be guineas. They are guineas and they have entirely different instincts than any other poultry.

One of the biggest problems with intermixing guineas with other poultry is the different instincts. Only other guineas know how to show submission in a form that other guineas understand.

Other poultry with their frontal attacks do not understand the attacks from behind with the feather pulling and feather breaking. Other poultry do not understand when guineas attack en masse rather than one on one.

Your belief that bigger poultry fare better against guineas is not accurate. Unless in confined spaces the bigger poultry are too slow to catch guineas with the guineas' hit and run attacks.

 

[Mo_fawaazzz]

The proper ratio of male to female guinea fowl is 1:1. For the most part they from bonded pairs. Not all male guineas will accept more than one female.

not all males will accept more than one female, but in their flocks (naturally in the wild) there are normally more females than males.

Some males desire to have more than one mate, and the flock needs to be ready for that.

If they don't have enough females for those males that desire more then there could be more chickens involved with the fighting.

Dr. Jacquie Jacob, from the University of Kentucky states
"For most flocks, one male is usually kept for every four to five females."
view more about ratios on this poultry research database: https://poultry.extension.org/artic...locks, one male,continue to lay until October.

 

[Mo_fawaazzz]

This is really bad advice.

The space is critical. Too many people think that they can cram guineas into the same small area that they already have over populated with chickens. Guineas need far more space than chickens need.

By not following the well known proper ratio of one male to one female guinea, you are not allowing them to be guineas. They are guineas and they have entirely different instincts than any other poultry.

One of the biggest problems with intermixing guineas with other poultry is the different instincts. Only other guineas know how to show submission in a form that other guineas understand.

Other poultry with their frontal attacks do not understand the attacks from behind with the feather pulling and feather breaking. Other poultry do not understand when guineas attack en masse rather than one on one.

Your belief that bigger poultry fare better against guineas is not accurate. Unless in confined spaces the bigger poultry are too slow to catch guineas with the guineas' hit and run attacks.

It all depends on the amount of space given and the ratio of males/females in your flock.

with a ratio of 1:1 guineafowl, the males will certainly attack your chickens.

But given a ratio of 1:5 and a few roosters in your chicken flock, and that you have enough space (quarter of an acre), things should go well.

guineafowl get a bad rep, but they really aren't that bad when their flock dynamics are understood. In a 1:1 guineafowl flock, a male may desire more hens, even fighting with another guinea cock. However, he knows how to back down if he loses. If that same guinea cock goes after a chicken rooster, the rooster doesn't know how to back down.

just add a few more guinea hens and the problem is solved.


I also heard that u gotta feed guineas and chickens in different places but they can forage together in their own time.

Guineafowl get territorial when it comes to food and ladies.

 

[R2elk]

Dr. Jacquie Jacob, from the University of Kentucky states
"For most flocks, one male is usually kept for every four to five females."
view more about ratios on this poultry research database: https://poultry.extension.org/artic...locks, one male,continue to lay until October.

I will trust people that actually raise guinea fowl rather than someone that pretends to be an expert. Those are usually the same kind of people that claim guinea fowl mate for life.

I have raised guineas with chickens and without chickens. The imprinting that happens when brooding keets with chicks is the most harmful thing. The guineas grow up and cannot understand that chickens are not guineas and treat them the same as they treat each other.

Guineas that I brooded and raise d only with guineas know that chickens are not guineas and leave them alone.

 

[R2elk]

but in their flocks (naturally in the wild) there are normally more females than males.

I find this statement highly unlikely. I have no idea how they could determine the male to female ratio in the wild given that the sexes cannot be identified by sight.

The fact that females are highly susceptible to predators when on their hidden nests, it is far more likely that males outnumber females in the wild.