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.ratio for guineafowl should be 1 male for 4-5 females.
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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.ratio for guineafowl should be 1 male for 4-5 females.
This is really bad advice.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.
not all males will accept more than one female, but in their flocks (naturally in the wild) there are normally more females than males.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.
It all depends on the amount of space given and the ratio of males/females in your flock.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.
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.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 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.but in their flocks (naturally in the wild) there are normally more females than males.