Guinea hybrid question

[Lothiriel]

I've read and heard about the guinea/chicken hybrids but have a question about them.

All the ones on the FeatherSite page with the parents listed have a male chicken over a female guinea. Anybody know if this can happen the other way around, with a male guinea over a female chicken? (Really hoping it can!! I've got 1 male guinea and a whole bunch of chicken hens he could breed for them...

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[OHSpartan]

Technically, yes it can happen. However, guineas face physical size limitations such that the paternal seed is more likely to come from a chicken. Male guineas have a difficult time successfully fertilizing a hen. If your male guinea is larger than the run-of-the-mill guinea, your odds are improved.

 

[casuarius]

The reason there are hybrids at all is because of the nature of the species. Male chickens are lustful and basically rape rather than breed, and will even rape other roosters if a hen isnt around...we've all seen it happen. Therefore it wouldn't take much for one to rape a Guinea Hen. However male Guineas tend to stick to their species. A hybrid would serve no purpose anyway, they are sterile and cannot reproduce, and they are hideous haha.

 

[The Chickeneer]

Wow

I didnt know you could do that. Would it work better with artificial incemination? Because this one looked pretty cool.

 

[Darkjeweler]

My Roosters are terrified of the Guineas. They have gotten their *** kicked a few too many times. I don't think there will be any hybrids in my yard.
They do look different though. If you could produce them on a regualr basis, I bet they would sell for more than the Guineas would. lol...

 

[bemba]

This birds father was a pied guinea and its mother a black bearded mottled bantam hen apparently, here is the link ..... http://poultrykeeperforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5958

I've hatched my first ever guinea chicken hybrid he is doing well.... mum is a pied guinea and dad is a partridge malay... the cheet is brown with a white belly and white wing tips, sounds a lot like a chicken chick.

 

[lvelazquez522]

This birds father was a pied guinea and its mother a black bearded mottled bantam hen apparently, here is the link ..... http://poultrykeeperforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5958

I've hatched my first ever guinea chicken hybrid he is doing well.... mum is a pied guinea and dad is a partridge malay... the cheet is brown with a white belly and white wing tips, sounds a lot like a chicken chick.

I kust hatched my first guinea hybrid. Dad was a barred rock mom was a helmeted pearl. She seems to be doing well but is on the small side compared to her guinea siblings. Any health issues i need to look out for?

 

[Prince and Pavo]

Hello!

I kust hatched my first guinea hybrid. Dad was a barred rock mom was a helmeted pearl. She seems to be doing well but is on the small side compared to her guinea siblings. Any health issues i need to look out for?

Unfortunately, due to very many health issues, numigalls (as these hybrids are called) most often do not live very long at all, usually dying prematurely and rarely living longer than a few months. I wouldn’t count on your little guy surviving very long, but you can still give him (yes, the surviving ones are almost always male) the best life while he’s still around.

There are a lot of challenges that these Guinea - chicken hybrids face, starting as early as fertilization and egg development. The ones that hatch are obviously stronger, but they always have issues as they grow. Many (seemingly all) health issues may/will come with time if the baby survives, including incorrect or improper skeletal development, weak immune system, nutritional deficiency, sterilization, and premature death, to name a few.

Keep taking care of your “cheet” just like you normally would, but just be prepared and expect to have to deal with some of these things in the future.

By the way, this is a very old thread. I would suggest either creating a new one or joining a more recent one

 

[Prince and Pavo]

Here is a very recent thread of a Guinea - chicken hybrid “cheet” that I am following…

Thread 'Guinea x chicken hybrid grow-along'
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/guinea-x-chicken-hybrid-grow-along.1584626/