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A few more guinea pictures.

Oh no, predators pick them off like candy. The trick is to keep so many that enough will survive for you to replace them the next year by incubating eggs. I keep mine cooped at night to save them from nighttime predators, but even so, out of my 20 last year I wound up with only two a year later...

Before discovering the Americas, guineas were like the turkeys of Europe, and their meat is supposedly very good. I don't eat mine because they're too valuable as tick eaters. When we first moved here you couldn't walk outside for a second without coming back in covered in ticks. Within a few...

Those are beautiful pictures!

Thanks. They're my two survivors from an older flock that used to number 20. The dark one was dominant when the flock was still around, and the lighter one was lowest in the ranks and never allowed to come closer than the outskirts of the flock before. As the last two, they've become best...

No argument here! Male is obviously appropriate when referring to males. And rooster is honestly fine, as well. No one is going to misunderstand someone talking about their "guinea hens and guinea roosters." Context is what makes the language. And everyone should do their own research, that's a...

LOL! :lau The bird's already flown the coop on that one by a couple centuries. I'm imagining a whole bunch of grammar police getting in those poor puritan's faces, screaming "It's a COCK! use the proper term! Telling people to call them roosters is BAD ADVICE!" Not only that, I recently posted...

Go ahead and call them guinea roosters if you want! Originally, male chickens were called cocks. That only changed when Puritans decided to use the word rooster in order to avoid the double entendre of the word cock, so there's really no reason to distinguish the two words.

How on earth did you manage to saddle a guinea!? I'm impressed! And he looks quite dapper, too.

This is my absolute favorite photo of my guineas. I blew it up on a canvas print and hung it in my house. It also features one of my favorite snakes, an Eastern hognose. After taking the picture I shooed the birds away so the snake could slither to safety. None of my other guinea photos are...