The Poultry Keeper

Stepto · Joined: 21 Jun 2005 Posts: 2

I was given a pair of guinea fowl two years ago. They were old so I bought a young pair, which turned out to be two males. A prowling fox relieved me of the guinea hen along with a setting of eggs. I may have something 'hail' and hearty for him should I be fortunate enough to see him return!

I gave two males away, to a friend and now need to find a guinea hen to start over. I have great difficulty in telling male from female - I may have to pen these birds in future - for a second reason - they bully other fowl. Any tips?

summayah · Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Posts: 4289 Location: luton

Hello and welcome to the forum, hope you enjoy your time here. Sorry I know nothing about guinea fowl, but I think one of the other members has them~ hopefully she'll be along later on to help out.

nigel · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 10:20 pm Post subject:

Yes Fangs keeps guinea fowl, she'll know

Fangs · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 6:19 pm Post subject:

Hi im here now lol. rite to tell the males from the females, here goes. rite well the easiest way is to tell from the noise they make. a guinea hen makes a 2 sylable sound a bit like come bak, come bak, not the shrill cry, a male only makes a single sylablke sound, cant remember wot that sounds like now. generally males r bigger, with bigger feet and legs, and also bigger wattles and combs, though this can sumtimes not b the case. best to go on sound
Fangs