I know people who have successfully raised the two together. One of the bonuses is that the guineas will tend to think more like chickens and may roost in the coop as opposed to trees, etc. I think that keets need more protein than chicks, or possibly for a longer period - there are lots of good internet resources out there, just do a google search on raising the keets. They are more fragile and have tougher requirements, so I would research them first. I don't know if the guinea fowl lay like chickens, but I doubt you'll find the eggs - I don't think they'll use a nest box.

My brother has chickens and guineas in the same pen. The chickens use the nesting boxes and the guineas lay in the brush. He also likes the taste of guinea eggs.

Just how loud are guineas anyway? I'd like to get some but my rooster has never read the Rooster Manual and crows all night long (with no other light source nearby, none). My neighbors are very gracious about it, but I can't inflict anything else on them.

katie

If you put a low wattage light bulb low in the pen, the keets and chicks will learn to eat bugs. It saves on the feed bill, cuts down the bug population, and helps prepare them for foraging on their own when they get old enough to free range.

You might want to keep them separated until they grow a bit. The chicks grow faster than the keets and may trample them.

well i just got 5 keets and i know a little about them but i would like some advise or tips on how to raise them so if you have any tips please contact me at: sportsboy_52@hotmail.com

check www.the-coop.org for poultry advice . all types

well thanx for the site and i hope none die cuz thst would suck

keets need to eat game fowl starter or turkey starter that has more protein, also the heat needs to be a bit more hotter. Because keets are so small the can be trampled or pecked to death by the chicks. Also not all guineas will kill snakes unless you have a large lot of them. Safety in numbers and all that. They'll also are supposed to alert when a hawk flies overhead which makes the unwary chickens run for cover. Guineas and roosters should not be housed together. in a free range setting they might be okay but in a henhouse they'll kill eachother.

You can raise them together, but you can't hatch them under a hen together. Chicken eggs take 21 days to hatch and guinea eggs take 28 days. An ideal way to raise baby guineas is to set guinea eggs under a chicken hen, let her hatch and raise the baby guineas.
Stan

Hi
I had a question about getting guineas to control stink bugs in my area
Does anyone know if guineas will eat stink bugs? at all?
Our region has a huge issue with them coming into our homes via soffit vents and attic vents during the fall and I was hoping the guineas could help control them this autumn
Thanks. Donna

You can have a hen hatch the guinea eggs we did and they never knew the difference and we keep all of ours together the rooster chicken and the male guinea with all the hens chicks and guineas and they get along fine since birth they even used to huddle together at night in the pin wgen they were babies.

I have a question. We had 6 baby guinea hens. My daughter said we should have feed them some kind of Turkey feed. We feed them the Chick Starter that the feed store told us. They were all dead this morning. Please answer what we should have feed them?

I have 2 keets(4 weeks) and 6 isa brown chicks(3 weeks old)... We have them in separate places but want to put them together but the sites that I have googled all say the chicks will beat up on the keets.... Is it safe or not? The keets are a little bigger but the chicks are quickly catching up