Can a guinea fowl mate with a chicken?

Answer 1

Yes, you can cross breed chickens and most of the time, we can't stop ours from cross breeding anyway as they all run around as a flock. The results mean they will not sell for very much but some can look absaloubtley gorgeous!

Answer 2

Yes. They can interbreed. People often cross guinea fowl with roosters, or peacocks. A guinea fowl hen crossed with a rooster will grow as large as the fowl parent, while retaining the gamey flavour. Hatchability tends to vary with the strain of rooster used. The chicks resulting from the cross are infertile, and look somewhat like a turkey. A lot of people do this for meat as roosters have more semen than guinea fowl.

Answer 3

Yes. Guinea fowl and chickens can interbreed. Survival rates of these cross breeds is low however. If the dominant gene of the resulting hatch is guinea fowl then the incubation period is 25 to 26 days and higher success that if the dominant gene is chicken.

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Answer 4

Yes, they're fine together.

You can keep them with chickens if you have no rooster among the flock. Male guinea fowl are very protective of guinea hens and will harass a rooster to the death. Guineas are not solitary and will seek company, even with other bird species.

Answer 5

yes, they can generally without problems or deformities occurring, however this is only advised 1 generation in, constant inbreeding would be very bad, you would get low fertility rates as well as low hatch rates and not many would survive due to deform bodies. Not advised!

Answer 6

Depends on how the animals behave towards one another, but it's probably better to keep them in different cages.

Answer 7

slightly different, but similar.