My grandmother "never" left the eggs with the guineas. said they were horrible mothers. Also she kept a Bantam hen as a broody hen. She said they would raise anything and would protect them to the death...no pecking
They are called Guin or Guin-hen. They are the result of being a cross between a guinea and a chicken. They need to get more genetics from the guinea parent and be closer to it to actually survive. Also, the incubation rate for the those eggs is usually closer to guinea than chicken. Ones that are more chicken than guinea do not usually survive. The guinea can also be bred with pheasants and turkeys to produce offspring. Due to the cross though they are usually sterile much like the cross of horse and donkey. If you want to learn more look into game bird hybridization. I have been researching this for the past few weeks and find it fascinating.
@@lynild This would be the case if you were to breed for example a jungle fowl with a chicken. However, the chicken and guinea are two distinct species. Each species has a different amount of chromosomes than the other so they cannot usually get a perfect 50/50 match up of DNA . When chickens and guineas breed the offspring have between 74-78 chromosomes. Birds that have 75 chromosomes for example and get that 1 extra chromosome from the chicken are less likely to survive. These species also have some identical DNA. Which yes may have technically come from the chicken but is already in the guineas DNA. This is more so what I meant by more guinea than chicken. 50/50 with no or 1 extra chromosome of shared DNA between the species. So it would be more 50% guinea, 50% chicken and 1% shared DNA. Edit. Chickens and jungle fowl are two different species. However, chickens were bred over thousands of years from a few different jungle fowl. Each of the jungle fowl species have 74 chromosomes. We get domestic chickens so far and every now and then sprinkle in more jungle fowl DNA.
Scientists study fowl hybridization extensively due to how much it occurs. I have two Anser anser domesticus×Anser cygnoides domesticus crosses (geese).
I stumbled upon your channel. I know nothing about chickens, ducks, or any other barnyard animals. But as an animal lover and meat eater at the same time, I just wanted to say you guys are awesome. You treat the animals with such care and respect. I've seen so many ranchers mistreat thier herd. With the local animal control outright telling me that if it's a food animal there really isn't a minimum standard of care required. So seeing how gently and lovingly you treat every animal restores my faith a little in humanity.
Agreed! Even animals raised for food deserve love, abd a humane death. I raise mealworms, and they have plenty of room to crawl, and plentiful food until the day they “fulfill their destinies.”
Because of the Locrian/Lydian mode. Locrian is a chaotic and dark mode, which is used often in horror movies, it initially starts in Locrian and then moves to Lydian. I actually just finished making something in this mode and posted it today. It's titled Bedlam if you're interested!
It’s so sad when you find chicks that have been brained like that. I’ve been lucky to get most of them through it, but sometimes it’s just too badly injured. I don’t know why some hens do that. I have a few hens that will raise ANYTHING, egg or chick, you put under them. I also have hens that will hatch out and kill their own chicks. Those gals aren’t allowed to have eggs anymore. I just raise my chicks in the house when I can to avoid that. Only have had it happen a handful of times over the years, but once is enough to break your heart whether they make it or not.
You can candle the eggs to see if they're fertile, you know. It's actually easier to do with a smartphone- turn your flashlight on, place the egg on top of it, and if you see a dark spot, it's fertile. If not, you can eat the egg.
@@gerrymatheson4020 are u in UK, most USA farmers don't keep there's in the fridge/icebox. We don't vaccinate for salmonella , that and the cuticle on the egg gets washed off
I really appreciate how you are taking the best care of your livestock as possible. There are far too many factory farms in the United States and not enough farms like this. Thank you for what you guys do! Peace an love from New York💖
Animals that are cross bred.. get their name from the father first half of the name and the mother second half of name ..like (liger) lion-tiger and (pizzly)poler bear-grizzly .so on
This is incredible with dreams of becoming a biologist and a small chixken farmer myself I can truthfully say this is some of the best content on TH-cam
I grewup feeling sorry for country kids, ' they must be bored, they must dream of city life' but now that I'm raising 'city chickens' I realise your kids are very lucky for the life you have given them!
@@bearsandbumblebees8823 I had the best of both worlds I suppose, lived on the edge of a major city, so had woods and fields a short walk away, where we could catch frogs newts go fishing in the local lake too! But yeah city is my ❤
@@bearsandbumblebees8823 really the country is the best place to live I grew up in the country then lived in the city for 15 years now back to the country and it is so much better its quite beautiful and there is so much more to do in the country than I the city where there is nothing to do but run the streets and get in trouble. If you moved to the country you would finally see what you were missing and how much more fun it is. The city sucks all you hear is vehicles and people yelling and talking it's so annoying compared to just hearing the birds and animals and waking up to the roosters and turkeys it is so much better than the city
@@nickhaley1212 I gotta disagree. I prefer the sounds of cars, knowing people are out there. I’d never move to the country willingly. Would only live there if I was, idk, staying at someone’s house for a second or sum.
That poor little chick. I knew he wasn’t gonna make it, still made me sad. I grew up on a farm and we had a Rhode Island Red rooster breed with our Bantam chickens, they came out all different colours and grew larger than average bantams. One day I was out playing with my dog on a day off school and I heard the hens going NUTS and they were my responsibility so I ran over and somehow a chick had gotten in the water bucket. It was swimming somehow, it should’ve drowned. I brought it in an dried it off and kept in the my sweater and it did just fine afterwards and we changed the water bucket.
I remember being told by my Mom a similar thing happened to a chick on the family farm. Dad rescued a chick that had gotten into a shallow pan of water. The chick was too cold to move so Dad brought it inside and Mom wrapped the chick in a dry rag to dry it off. Mom warned up another rag on the kettle sitting on the wood annex. She then wrapped the chick in the second dry rag while drying off and warming up the first rag. Mom kept alternating between the two rags until the chick was dried off and peeping happily. Dad took the chick back to its mother and it grew into a good sized chicken.
This happens more than you would think, and it often ends badly, as it doesn't take long for them to get too cold to swim any more. On top of that, chicks can drown themselves in even shallow pans! Any time we've had little ones, we have made sure any water sources they could get to were filled with pebbles where they could get water, between the round rocks, and still not get IN the water to get chilled or drowned. Then we discovered waterers designed for quail! They have a smaller water-holding base, so the chicks can't get in them and drown! Even the teeny little quail babies (which we've also often raised) can't get in them and drown. So that's ALL we use, for any kind of chicks!
For anyone reading who might be worried about this, we put Little Rock’s all through our shallow water dishes. They can drink through the little gaps between the rocks but if they do fall in they’ve got something to stand on and climb out
The sound of guinea hens isn't a sound you'll soon forget - a group of them sound like a WW2 airplane trying to fire-up in an airplane hanger - and that's when they're content. When they're alerting to danger, it's the most hideous cacophony you'll ever hear.
Oh, they aren't that loud until they are alerting, LOL! Now, when they ARE alerting, yeah, they get up there in the decibel levels! But when they are just talking amongst themselves (they do that to make sure all of the flock stays within earshot of each other as they are foraging), they are pretty quiet, and sound pretty darn cool, IMO. 😊
We had chickens when I was growing up and a couple of guineas and they would make the most awful noise. And they wouldn't shut up for anything. Whenever my dad was home on the weekends he would work outside and the sound would drive him crazy until one day we heard a couple of gunshots! We went running outside to see what was going on and my dad had shot them both. When my mom screamed what have you done? And my dad said it was either them or me!
So I went & asked Mr Googlepants about this, and a cross between a guinea & a chicken is called a "Guinhen" and, similar to cross breeding other species, these little chicks will be sterile if they make it to adulthood.
How does a guinea breed with a chicken? The usual way - some soft, romantic music, candlelight, a bottle of Beaujolais and let nature take its course. LOL
From my experience. The 2 guinea fowl that are seen walking together, at the start of the video, are definitely male and female. Even the sounds that the male and female make, are distinctively different, and I can hear the sound of a male guinea fowl.
Guinea x Chicken hybrids, aka Guin-Hens When confined together, chickens and guineas will interbreed on occasion, and sometimes the result is a fertile egg. Survival rate in these hybrids is higher if they are more like the guinea parent. Thank you for making videos for me to watch! They are very entertaining for me. And I love all your pets, and especially all the birds! Love your channel ❤️
@@thebotanist7145 while purposely breeding them isnt recommended as hybrids typically are sterile and may be born with genetic deformities, in theory you can "bread" most poultry together. There is a list of such hybrids in wikipedia if you'd like to sate your curiosity.
However, once you get used to the appearance of the naked neck chicken you will see it is just as cute as any other chicken. In fact, when August temperatures hit over 100° it’s my naked neck chickens that are perfectly comfortable and it’s all the other chickens that have to be misted or given calcium to prevent eggbinding or simply die in the heat. Naked neck chickens are very friendly happy and healthy birds.
When I was a child, we had a goat in with our sheep. "Irk" was a billy. He was a little orphan and we put him in with the sheep and he grew up with the bumb lams. I don't know what breed he was but he was smaller than some of the ewes. And there was never any notion that he could breed the ewes. He was in with the ewes for a few years before the first "geep" lambs were born. That year there were four, with course, wavy, colored, goat fur (one red, one brown like the billy, and two black) born to three ewes. We even had the local t.v. Station come and film a section piece on them. The following few years we would see one or two a year, in spite of the fact that we did always have bucks to breed the ewes. Then the papa goat, "Irk" died. None of the "geep" ever lambed and except for one, never got as big as their mothers. My father did tan a couple of their pelts, but they've since been lost or sold. My grandparents (dad's folks) had run goats with sheep for many years, but they always had nanny goats too, for milk, so the billys never bothered the ewes. Of course, now it is known that this can happen, but at the time, it was extremely rare... even unheard of 'in our neck of the woods'. Nature will find a way, I guess. That goat wasn't afraid of our huge, docile old bucks. He was small and agile and could climb up out of the way onto a roof, a truck, a number of old trees that were around, whatever was around. But frankly, the bucks were so pampered and there were so many ewes, it wasn't ever a problem, that I'm aware. As I said, "Nature finds a way. Even if it's weird, or unheard of... Even if the young is sterile, or unviable. Clearly the hens want nothing to do with these weird babies, judging from the beating that chick has taken. You'll have to watch then closely. Keep us updated as to their health and progress, please.
Well, with all I would like to say (LOL!), I'll just say... some hens just aren't good mamas, no matter whether those babies are hybrids or just normal chicks. ~shrug~ Some hens are great mamas, some aren't, even in the same breed. But Silkies and banty Cochins LOVE to be mamas, LOL! I've got banty Cochins that will want to be broody if two eggs are left in a nest box for more than a few hours! 😄 As for the hybrid "geeps," LOL, yes, nature/life finds a way! 😄❤
@@astrallady7749 yes, that's correct. They WILL kill any bird they feel are a potential threat to the health of the flock. It's just an instinct with them, though; no real thought process goes into it.
@@suet.r.4815 I know it's been a couple of years since you posted your comment, but I have a question. You refer to your family's male sheep as "bulls". We've always called them "rams", which is considered the common term. Is it different where you grew up?
Kudos to you for raising your sons in such a wonderful, loving environment. Watching them hold these delicate little birds is heart warming. This is the way many children were raised in my generation in my small midwest town. They are now God loving, caring, and successful adults who gratefully give to those in need and not one selfish bone in their body.
driving on a small rural road in OK, stopped cuz a guinea and a tom turkey were having a chat in the middle of the road, they slowly moved off to one side, and we crept past them, then they returned to the middle of the road to resume their conversation
@@XLR_Valentine I agree, I last ate pork in August. I hope never to eat it again. There are viruses dangerous to humans that grow in pigs and millions had to be culled in China in 2018.
Just happened upon your channel, so glad I did! Your son is precious and glows when you're interacting with him on camera, clearly loving his childhood!
Hi! Thank you for such fun farm videos! Two things: a friend once told me that an old timer told him that in order to get guineas to come back to the coop each night, you need to let them out one the first day, then two the second day, then 3 the third, etc. This keeps them coming back to the same place to roost. The other thing is for frostbite in rooster combs (and this I've used with my roosters, with great success) Hypericum Perf. 200c plus Arnica Montana 3c in their water for a few days, or until their combs resume normal coloring. (Generally within a week.) These medicines are inherently nontoxic and are available on Amazon.
Its great your teaching your kids where their food comes from and letting them participate in the butchering..So many people are so far removed from things like this they don't live in reality anymore.I was raised like this..Now that I'm getting older i cherish it. Might not be a pretty sight but in the end it helps you understand death.
I’ve been watching your channel since your kids were still in diapers. You show a side of farm life that most people on’t see.. farm life is hard work and you’re showing your kids what it’s like to work and enjoying the outcome at the end of the day
Had some guineas when I lived on a farm. I love them! We also had a chicken that resembled a duck. Guineas are fearless! Loved watching them fly into a tree to roost fof the night. They have the most awesome make-up!
Gacha kids with hybrid OCs: *OH YEAH IT'S ALL COMING TOGETHER* -Insert rapid clicking on gacha like, ending up with a rat dog wolf cat tiger lion bear hybrid-
@@jonathanboone3156 both my female guineas are a lot lighter color compared to the males I bought the lighter babies wondering what they'd look like as adults turn out both females all I had before that was males
@@mtndewcupseries6619 color is NOT indicative of gender in guinea fowl. They come in a lot of colors and patterns, but every single one of them comes in both male and female. The ONLY ways to tell them apart are the *slightly* larger helmet tips and the different sounds they make. Males make only one kind of call, females make different sounds. Their alarm sounds like someone screaming "come back, come back!!" at the top of their lungs, LOL, but males can't make that sound.
This reminds me of when I was a kid and I would go up the street to my neighbors farm and clean the stalls. We rode for free and there were all kinds of cows and chickens etc. loved it!
The first crosses of tiger/lion occurred when I was a kid, they called them "tiglons" back then. Maybe it depends on which animal is the mother, like with MULES and HINNIES. Both are the cross of a horse and a donkey. If the MOTHER is the horse, it's a mule. If the FATHER is the horse, it's a hinny.
@@aprilalatorre9127 That's what I was thinking. No food, no water. That said, the injury already looked infected, it must have been there a while. Might have gotten brain damage from the pecking too, they should have put the poor thing out of its misery.
I think it would be easier if you put the emu pool in the ground since they like the drain hole so much. They might think that it’s another drain hole and get in.
I think it's so refreshing to see this dad with his son and teaching him about having a farm and all the hard work that goes with it. This young boy will grow up with very good work ethic. His father is a great roll model. The nuclear family..most kids miss out on this...these are great parents..good job folks...!
This breaks my heart,when I had chickens I never let them outside since it was cold and I only bought the babies.we gave them food water and a log to play with,in the spring we let them live outside.I love my babies✨☺️
Um, it's not a *helping* thing, that. It's their natural curiosity to peck at anything around, LOL! And it can end badly, especially if that chick isn't ready to fully hatch. I speak from experience on that. I've lost one to the already hatched bator-mate pecking at the wrong spot and hitting a blood vessel that had not been fully emptied and dried up yet. It wasn't pretty. I tried to save the poor thing as soon as I noticed it (clotting stick to the bleeding area), but there was too much blood loss, and it apparently died of shock.
@@MaryAnnNytowl yea, that’s what sucks, I one time saw chicks pecking at their sibling in an egg, and I ended up snatching the egg away from their very angry mother and put it to the side to help it hatch, after a few painful minutes, the chick hatched and we raised the chick ourselves
As a child, I spent summers with family in the south. An aunt asked me if I wanted fried chicken for supper, city girl r that I was told her yes. You know, mom went to the store and bought some. She gave me an axe and told me to go pick out the one I wanted to eat. I became a vegetarian that day. Your vids bring back good memories
Love the channel. You're the reason I decided to make a coop and run and waiting for silkie to hatch in a few days time. Hopefully I won't get too much roosters as won't be popular with the neighbours as I live in a built up area. Looking forward to the next episode.
There ARE quieter breeds like the Australopes and Buff Orpingtons. I'm not a breeder, just did some homework a few months ago because I live the suburbs. 🐔
Guineas are very underrated pets. They're not only the world's best alarm system and early warning weather station, but obsessively vigilant pest control to boot. Where I grew up they were life savers as well because they were the only way to keep the rattlers, copper heads, and cotton mouths away from the house. No other animal (man of beast)that I know of will perform all those services for you. At any price.
It's been a while since I've looked at this channel and now I remember why, it just seems like you spend more time looking at multiple commercials than you do actually watching the video.
When naming hybrids, the male animal is usually the first part of the name. For example, a Liger would be a male lion paired with a female tiger, and a female lion with a male tiger would be a Tigon. (Or something along those lines. Since the father is a chicken, naming conventions suggest the hybrids should be called chickeas, or something like that.
Listen to the sounds the males and females sound different male guineas make 1 kind of sound females make 2 go find a video of the sound and you can tell so if one of the guineas is a male or if they were fertilized by chickens your welcome. 😄😁
Man , seeing those poor babies heads. Ahhh, my heart is breaking. That poor babys brain was exposed. It should of been put out of its misery off the bat. The pain that poor baby endured for that prolonged time. I know the feeling, save them! But the brain was exposed. Think about that pain . He dosent have no iv dilauded to help. That is the moment you say , no. I'm gonna save you this way my poor baby.
if it makes you feel any better, your brain doesn't have pain receptors in it -- it's the same reason you can get cancers in/on some of your organs and not feel any kind of pain. I'm sure it's suffering, but not as much as you might think
Pits skull was visible, if its brain was just exposed, it would have died almost right away after it got injured. But ut wasnt the brain, but the skull
Ya know that’s odd, I’d say you have a hen and rooster from what I saw of them in the vid, but getting two guinea eggs a day is odd. I thought I saw mounting somewhere around 4:40 with the guineas but that doesn’t make up for the fact you’re getting two eggs, females also mount to assert dominance. If y’all have a guinea chicken hybrid that’s pretty cool. I have four guineas and there IS a way to tell them apart from looks, my males have a very bright white head and a purple dulap and the hens look a lot less fancy around the head
My grandmother "never" left the eggs with the guineas. said they were horrible mothers. Also she kept a Bantam hen as a broody hen. She said they would raise anything and would protect them to the death...no pecking
ive heard bantams are very nurturing
Our banty hens were great mothers. They will sit on any egg. Our hen once hatched out a dozen quail eggs. Raised them too.
You ever deal with a sitting guinea they are mean as heck
I thought this is sanctuary.not watching this channel anymore.
@@dhirpunian2333 bruh chill it isn’t like they could know that too well until they found out
They are called Guin or Guin-hen. They are the result of being a cross between a guinea and a chicken. They need to get more genetics from the guinea parent and be closer to it to actually survive. Also, the incubation rate for the those eggs is usually closer to guinea than chicken. Ones that are more chicken than guinea do not usually survive. The guinea can also be bred with pheasants and turkeys to produce offspring. Due to the cross though they are usually sterile much like the cross of horse and donkey.
If you want to learn more look into game bird hybridization. I have been researching this for the past few weeks and find it fascinating.
Technically speaking, first generation hybrids will always get 50% genetics from each parent not more from one than the other
@@lynild This would be the case if you were to breed for example a jungle fowl with a chicken. However, the chicken and guinea are two distinct species. Each species has a different amount of chromosomes than the other so they cannot usually get a perfect 50/50 match up of DNA . When chickens and guineas breed the offspring have between 74-78 chromosomes. Birds that have 75 chromosomes for example and get that 1 extra chromosome from the chicken are less likely to survive. These species also have some identical DNA. Which yes may have technically come from the chicken but is already in the guineas DNA. This is more so what I meant by more guinea than chicken. 50/50 with no or 1 extra chromosome of shared DNA between the species. So it would be more 50% guinea, 50% chicken and 1% shared DNA.
Edit. Chickens and jungle fowl are two different species. However, chickens were bred over thousands of years from a few different jungle fowl. Each of the jungle fowl species have 74 chromosomes. We get domestic chickens so far and every now and then sprinkle in more jungle fowl DNA.
Zach Miller brUh are you a scientist?
Scientists study fowl hybridization extensively due to how much it occurs. I have two Anser anser domesticus×Anser cygnoides domesticus crosses (geese).
That's interesting I have never heard of such a thing!
me: *thinking that a chicken bred with a guinea pig*
same! i was so confused
Lol🤣
Same
Lmfaooo
Omg me too
I stumbled upon your channel. I know nothing about chickens, ducks, or any other barnyard animals. But as an animal lover and meat eater at the same time, I just wanted to say you guys are awesome. You treat the animals with such care and respect. I've seen so many ranchers mistreat thier herd. With the local animal control outright telling me that if it's a food animal there really isn't a minimum standard of care required. So seeing how gently and lovingly you treat every animal restores my faith a little in humanity.
Agreed!
Even animals raised for food deserve love, abd a humane death.
I raise mealworms, and they have plenty of room to crawl, and plentiful food until the day they “fulfill their destinies.”
cool
The hook bill duck should be called Captain Hook for obvious reasons
Or maybe Bill Hooker?
Capt. Jack?
My thoughts exactly
James is a good nod to Captain Hook.
Schmee would be cute too. Hook’s best mate.
The beginning made me feel like I was watching a horror movie
My anxiety went from 0-1,000 real fast
TRUE. It looked like a slasher tv series
Yes. I did not like that. Yikes!
Because of the Locrian/Lydian mode. Locrian is a chaotic and dark mode, which is used often in horror movies, it initially starts in Locrian and then moves to Lydian.
I actually just finished making something in this mode and posted it today. It's titled Bedlam if you're interested!
@@Harmonic_shift i love your channel ♥️
It’s so sad when you find chicks that have been brained like that. I’ve been lucky to get most of them through it, but sometimes it’s just too badly injured. I don’t know why some hens do that. I have a few hens that will raise ANYTHING, egg or chick, you put under them. I also have hens that will hatch out and kill their own chicks. Those gals aren’t allowed to have eggs anymore. I just raise my chicks in the house when I can to avoid that. Only have had it happen a handful of times over the years, but once is enough to break your heart whether they make it or not.
I've heard that silkies will hatch just about anything. Ours never went broody, but our buff orpingtons were wonderful mommies.
@@RayDrouillard silkies for sure! I don’t have any pure silkie hens anymore, but my silkie cross hens are all very good broodies and moms :)
grind them for chicken nuggets
@@carlosandleon careful your compassion is showing
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Growing up these kids will be well versed in domestic bird information.
Chineas is probably the cutest name
I like that name the best too!
For sure
I agree!! Easier to say too
I think you would offend chinese people. Everyone's so sensitive these days
Chineas and Ferb?
You can candle the eggs to see if they're fertile, you know. It's actually easier to do with a smartphone- turn your flashlight on, place the egg on top of it, and if you see a dark spot, it's fertile. If not, you can eat the egg.
You can eat the egg just fine if it's fertile...
True that. Do it every morning
They do that. I think this was just a surprise since they didn't have any male Guineas and were not expecting the cross-breeding.
Fertile eggs keep better, especially if you're doing the countertop method (unrefrigerated).
@@gerrymatheson4020 are u in UK, most USA farmers don't keep there's in the fridge/icebox. We don't vaccinate for salmonella , that and the cuticle on the egg gets washed off
2:13 that baby chick really said “imma just take a nap here” 😂😂
It was like "I'M ALIVE now sleep"
I know, sooo cute.
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I really appreciate how you are taking the best care of your livestock as possible. There are far too many factory farms in the United States and not enough farms like this. Thank you for what you guys do! Peace an love from New York💖
"You sir, are not the father"
I would say Guicken, because the mother is Guinea and the papa is chicken.
Lol its the other way around it would be called a Chinea, the dad's name comes first
Animals that are cross bred.. get their name from the father first half of the name and the mother second half of name ..like (liger) lion-tiger and (pizzly)poler bear-grizzly .so on
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Kinda like tigons and ligons? Isint it like dad to mom? Like male tiger female lion male lion female tiger?
So like theyed be like chineas then ;-;
This is incredible with dreams of becoming a biologist and a small chixken farmer myself I can truthfully say this is some of the best content on TH-cam
HELLO, ZUKO HERE
DrWater Melon34 wth😂
Except for the fact you definitely should not use these videos as facts. The way that they hatch out their birds leaves a lot to be desired.
@@drwatermelon3428 what lol
Just a little heads up. You know chickens stink really bad, right? But they are fun to raise.
I grewup feeling sorry for country kids, ' they must be bored, they must dream of city life' but now that I'm raising 'city chickens' I realise your kids are very lucky for the life you have given them!
I have my little city chickens, but I would never be able to stand livin out in the country like that
@@bearsandbumblebees8823 I had the best of both worlds I suppose, lived on the edge of a major city, so had woods and fields a short walk away, where we could catch frogs newts go fishing in the local lake too!
But yeah city is my ❤
@@bearsandbumblebees8823 really the country is the best place to live I grew up in the country then lived in the city for 15 years now back to the country and it is so much better its quite beautiful and there is so much more to do in the country than I the city where there is nothing to do but run the streets and get in trouble. If you moved to the country you would finally see what you were missing and how much more fun it is. The city sucks all you hear is vehicles and people yelling and talking it's so annoying compared to just hearing the birds and animals and waking up to the roosters and turkeys it is so much better than the city
@@therewdy4038 that sounds so fun
@@nickhaley1212 I gotta disagree. I prefer the sounds of cars, knowing people are out there. I’d never move to the country willingly. Would only live there if I was, idk, staying at someone’s house for a second or sum.
That poor little chick. I knew he wasn’t gonna make it, still made me sad. I grew up on a farm and we had a Rhode Island Red rooster breed with our Bantam chickens, they came out all different colours and grew larger than average bantams. One day I was out playing with my dog on a day off school and I heard the hens going NUTS and they were my responsibility so I ran over and somehow a chick had gotten in the water bucket. It was swimming somehow, it should’ve drowned. I brought it in an dried it off and kept in the my sweater and it did just fine afterwards and we changed the water bucket.
I remember being told by my Mom a similar thing happened to a chick on the family farm. Dad rescued a chick that had gotten into a shallow pan of water. The chick was too cold to move so Dad brought it inside and Mom wrapped the chick in a dry rag to dry it off. Mom warned up another rag on the kettle sitting on the wood annex. She then wrapped the chick in the second dry rag while drying off and warming up the first rag. Mom kept alternating between the two rags until the chick was dried off and peeping happily. Dad took the chick back to its mother and it grew into a good sized chicken.
Awww! Good for you and thank God you found it in time! Awesome birds for letting you know!
This happens more than you would think, and it often ends badly, as it doesn't take long for them to get too cold to swim any more. On top of that, chicks can drown themselves in even shallow pans!
Any time we've had little ones, we have made sure any water sources they could get to were filled with pebbles where they could get water, between the round rocks, and still not get IN the water to get chilled or drowned. Then we discovered waterers designed for quail! They have a smaller water-holding base, so the chicks can't get in them and drown! Even the teeny little quail babies (which we've also often raised) can't get in them and drown. So that's ALL we use, for any kind of chicks!
At least that poor little chick got to be warm and comfy for its last night.
For anyone reading who might be worried about this, we put Little Rock’s all through our shallow water dishes. They can drink through the little gaps between the rocks but if they do fall in they’ve got something to stand on and climb out
The sound of guinea hens isn't a sound you'll soon forget - a group of them sound like a WW2 airplane trying to fire-up in an airplane hanger - and that's when they're content. When they're alerting to danger, it's the most hideous cacophony you'll ever hear.
My cousin has 3 whenever I bring my horse to tie up and groom they go bonkers.... my mare doesn't approve
Oh, they aren't that loud until they are alerting, LOL! Now, when they ARE alerting, yeah, they get up there in the decibel levels! But when they are just talking amongst themselves (they do that to make sure all of the flock stays within earshot of each other as they are foraging), they are pretty quiet, and sound pretty darn cool, IMO. 😊
I wish.
Squirrel? Scream at the top of their lungs.
Fox or coyote? Not a peep.
Hahahahah you killing me ! I want to hear them !
We had chickens when I was growing up and a couple of guineas and they would make the most awful noise. And they wouldn't shut up for anything. Whenever my dad was home on the weekends he would work outside and the sound would drive him crazy until one day we heard a couple of gunshots! We went running outside to see what was going on and my dad had shot them both. When my mom screamed what have you done? And my dad said it was either them or me!
Me : *sees chick with a mark that looks like a burn scar on side of face*
Me : .. _zuko_
Me: Cimmerian...
me: todoroki....
YES ZUKO
Mocha drop i dont think it came from an agnikai tho lmao
FandomTrapped Only the OGs but y’all are an exception
Are we just going to not talk about the fact that the little cutie's sibling helped him get out, then checked to see if he was okay 1:50
i feel like “a chick named albert” could have saved that baby guinea...
*healing breath*
😂
definitely
they should have contacts with eachother to give advice on what to do.
bri Ahaha for reallll
A rooster looked at the gineau girls and thought “I’d tap that” and *did*
Really?
Why do women like you try repeat the dumb things men say and think it's funny?
@@victoriamorgan7188 Congratulations, you have an opinion! 🌟🌟
That's funny right there 🤣 ignore the prudes
@@victoriamorgan7188 are you gonna cry about it?
Why does the intro feel like the start of a horror film
You don't want to see the hogs eating the dead chicks.
😭
I was literally thinking the same thing, I’m glad I’m not the only one!
Their animals live in inhumane conditions and a large number of people support them in that. Shameful and sad.
It feels like one tho the last comment is so sutuped they are great animal oners
So adorable the boys with the animals. You people are great and so loving and caring for the animals. Joy to see. :)
So I went & asked Mr Googlepants about this, and a cross between a guinea & a chicken is called a "Guinhen" and, similar to cross breeding other species, these little chicks will be sterile if they make it to adulthood.
I read they didn't live very long
Sound like someone watches Justin Rhoades. Mr Google paint. I've started using it too
Do you watch Justin Rhodes channel?
I read that they have a better chance of survival if the mother is a guinea. So, hopefully, they will be ok.
@@sakil8272 yes I do
How does a guinea breed with a chicken? The usual way - some soft, romantic music, candlelight, a bottle of Beaujolais and let nature take its course. LOL
Bro i almost peed
*w h e e z e-*
🎶Brown chicken, Brown cow.🎶
Nature grows Beaujolais naturally?
(jk)
LOLOL
Him: "What do you call these things?"
Me: adorable.
From my experience. The 2 guinea fowl that are seen walking together, at the start of the video, are definitely male and female. Even the sounds that the male and female make, are distinctively different, and I can hear the sound of a male guinea fowl.
Awwwww the attention given to that baby chick is how it should be. They dont always make it but its the effort that is given that means the most
The beginning music with the pictures and text flashing reminded me of a trailer to a horror movie. Lmao
SAME
YESSSSSS
Glad someone said it.
“In a world ... where the Animals ... farm YOU”
Guinea x Chicken hybrids, aka Guin-Hens
When confined together, chickens and guineas will interbreed on occasion, and sometimes the result is a fertile egg. Survival rate in these hybrids is higher if they are more like the guinea parent. Thank you for making videos for me to watch! They are very entertaining for me. And I love all your pets, and especially all the birds! Love your channel ❤️
They are called "guin" (google search)
From what I could find the male hybrids are steril, as for the females I am unsure.
thanks google
Yah, I copied and pasted this from Google
Could you bread pheasants with turkeys? Or Turkeys witch chickens..? So many possibilities!! So little answers :((
@@thebotanist7145 while purposely breeding them isnt recommended as hybrids typically are sterile and may be born with genetic deformities, in theory you can "bread" most poultry together. There is a list of such hybrids in wikipedia if you'd like to sate your curiosity.
So good to see those birds living life in the field, happy and healthy..
It happens sometimes. Look up a Guinea crossed with a naked neck (turken) if you want some entertainment. Looks like a small vulture lol.
Cryssa Rose They do😂 I went down the google rabbit hole of guinea crosses while watching this and thought that is definitely a vulture wannabe.
Turken is such a sad looking bird
Look Up Featherless Chicken
However, once you get used to the appearance of the naked neck chicken you will see it is just as cute as any other chicken. In fact, when August temperatures hit over 100° it’s my naked neck chickens that are perfectly comfortable and it’s all the other chickens that have to be misted or given calcium to prevent eggbinding or simply die in the heat. Naked neck chickens are very friendly happy and healthy birds.
Is it me or is is the term, "Guinea" making you think they are hatching guinea pigs?
Just me?
No?
Alright then.
Exactly what I thought
Naa lol
🤭😂🤣😭😂🤣😭
Lol
Not really. Guineas as birds came first as a name, as the guinea pigs name is because they were sold for one guinea each.
When I was a child, we had a goat in with our sheep. "Irk" was a billy. He was a little orphan and we put him in with the sheep and he grew up with the bumb lams. I don't know what breed he was but he was smaller than some of the ewes. And there was never any notion that he could breed the ewes. He was in with the ewes for a few years before the first "geep" lambs were born. That year there were four, with course, wavy, colored, goat fur (one red, one brown like the billy, and two black) born to three ewes. We even had the local t.v. Station come and film a section piece on them. The following few years we would see one or two a year, in spite of the fact that we did always have bucks to breed the ewes. Then the papa goat, "Irk" died.
None of the "geep" ever lambed and except for one, never got as big as their mothers. My father did tan a couple of their pelts, but they've since been lost or sold.
My grandparents (dad's folks) had run goats with sheep for many years, but they always had nanny goats too, for milk, so the billys never bothered the ewes.
Of course, now it is known that this can happen, but at the time, it was extremely rare... even unheard of 'in our neck of the woods'.
Nature will find a way, I guess.
That goat wasn't afraid of our huge, docile old bucks. He was small and agile and could climb up out of the way onto a roof, a truck, a number of old trees that were around, whatever was around. But frankly, the bucks were so pampered and there were so many ewes, it wasn't ever a problem, that I'm aware.
As I said, "Nature finds a way. Even if it's weird, or unheard of... Even if the young is sterile, or unviable.
Clearly the hens want nothing to do with these weird babies, judging from the beating that chick has taken. You'll have to watch then closely.
Keep us updated as to their health and progress, please.
Well, with all I would like to say (LOL!), I'll just say... some hens just aren't good mamas, no matter whether those babies are hybrids or just normal chicks. ~shrug~ Some hens are great mamas, some aren't, even in the same breed. But Silkies and banty Cochins LOVE to be mamas, LOL! I've got banty Cochins that will want to be broody if two eggs are left in a nest box for more than a few hours! 😄
As for the hybrid "geeps," LOL, yes, nature/life finds a way! 😄❤
@@MaryAnnNytowl True. Being female doesn't make a mama, of any species.
I read chickens will attack and kill any chicken they feel is a threat to the flock. They can be sick or hurt.
@@astrallady7749 yes, that's correct. They WILL kill any bird they feel are a potential threat to the health of the flock. It's just an instinct with them, though; no real thought process goes into it.
@@suet.r.4815 I know it's been a couple of years since you posted your comment, but I have a question. You refer to your family's male sheep as "bulls". We've always called them "rams", which is considered the common term. Is it different where you grew up?
Chick : has a scar on his face
Me : looks like zuko
Also me : *That's rough buddy*
The injured guicken should’ve been named Zuko like from Avatar the last air bender🥺
A woman of culture I see.
That's rough buddy.
Naruto Uzumaki shut up
@Naruto Uzumaki even though I'm a Naruto Fan, Naruto, DBZ and other popular animes aren't culture. The ones are the hidden gems are.
That would've been an awesome name
1:50 That Peep is a good sibling, helping the other out of the shell.
Last time I heard about Hook Bill ducks, they were extremely endangered.
A Chick Named Albert fixed it
Kudos to you for raising your sons in such a wonderful, loving environment. Watching them hold these delicate little birds is heart warming. This is the way many children were raised in my generation in my small midwest town. They are now God loving, caring, and successful adults who gratefully give to those in need and not one selfish bone in their body.
...why would you want your children to "fear god"...?
Wait till you see his cousin the wild boarstrich
Pictures or it doesn’t exist heh
Petsmart sell them, feed them on mogwai
😂
Thank you for the giggle! Good one!
maaaybe your keyboaards kaaaputt aas I got loaaaads of A's.
driving on a small rural road in OK, stopped cuz a guinea and a tom turkey were having a chat in the middle of the road, they slowly moved off to one side, and we crept past them, then they returned to the middle of the road to resume their conversation
😆😂~ OOOH, NOOOO WAAAY... HILARIOUS!!
Haha! Must have quite the thing to roll up on!
Man, now for over 40 years I tried as well to hatch out my eggs in the frying pan, so far no luck.
Good luck on your journey! Hope you hatch one! Sounds really promising!
@@Z3R0xL1F3 just got to leave enough room to nestle the piglet in there
@@k8eekatt eeeeeeeeeeeeeew
@@Z3R0xL1F3 ewwwwwwwwwwwwww
@@XLR_Valentine I agree, I last ate pork in August. I hope never to eat it again. There are viruses dangerous to humans that grow in pigs and millions had to be culled in China in 2018.
Just happened upon your channel, so glad I did! Your son is precious and glows when you're interacting with him on camera, clearly loving his childhood!
pls update on the mandarin duckling that hatched and the pheasant babies
Man you have a male
Ooooooooo-
for a fact there's a alot hybrids of chickens with pheasant, turkeys, peacocks and the are from the same family called Phasianidae
Do you know by chance if any of them are like... viable layers?
@@DeidarasLilStudent it depends of breed of chicken you crossed with them
@MIGUEL AQUINO some are fertile and some are sterile
Even small bantams with big quails (meat quails) can have babies
@an actual cockroach or their Genetics look like different Species with the same Ancestor
I just googled it and they are an actual thing already and are called Guin’s. 🥰🥰
Hi! Thank you for such fun farm videos! Two things: a friend once told me that an old timer told him that in order to get guineas to come back to the coop each night, you need to let them out one the first day, then two the second day, then 3 the third, etc. This keeps them coming back to the same place to roost. The other thing is for frostbite in rooster combs (and this I've used with my roosters, with great success) Hypericum Perf. 200c plus Arnica Montana 3c in their water for a few days, or until their combs resume normal coloring. (Generally within a week.) These medicines are inherently nontoxic and are available on Amazon.
Its great your teaching your kids where their food comes from and letting them participate in the butchering..So many people are so far removed from things like this they don't live in reality anymore.I was raised like this..Now that I'm getting older i cherish it. Might not be a pretty sight but in the end it helps you understand death.
There is no life without death.
Just like there is no happiness without pain
Not great since murdering these innocent animals is completely unnecessary
@@Milarbkh Why don't you go live out in the wild and see how you last without killing food.
@@dj_nyx8903 Most people don't live in the wild & kill animals for survival. Completely different situation
I’ve been watching your channel since your kids were still in diapers. You show a side of farm life that most people on’t see.. farm life is hard work and you’re showing your kids what it’s like to work and enjoying the outcome at the end of the day
Had some guineas when I lived on a farm. I love them! We also had a chicken that resembled a duck. Guineas are fearless! Loved watching them fly into a tree to roost fof the night. They have the most awesome make-up!
I like a Chinni. Pool little guy though. She really pecked at the lil guy
The guinea at 4:40 is a male because of his wattles That are open females have closed wattles
It took me a while to realize that he was talking about Guinea fowl because I had no idea what he meant by Geinees.
This whole time I thought he meant guinea pigs LOL
I thought we was talking about Italians
Awww, so sorry your baby chick died. At least you tried to help and it was kept comfortable in a warm incubator.
I’ve been afraid of birds all my life but watching your videos are enjoyable and is lessening my phobia. Thank you! :)
Hybrid of different species that are distant to each other: **actually exist**
Furries with their hybrid OCs: *Oh yeah, it’s all coming together.*
im a furry and HAHABAA
@@shibapawz3254 HAHA **SNORT**
@@SMACKADOOS baa like sheep- wtf happened to my emojis i had an UPDATE WTF IS THIS ITS SO UGLY OMFG--
Gacha kids with hybrid OCs: *OH YEAH IT'S ALL COMING TOGETHER*
-Insert rapid clicking on gacha like, ending up with a rat dog wolf cat tiger lion bear hybrid-
My fursona being a Dutch angle dragon hybrid
Me:hehehe
It's so devastating to see these animals hurt.
@ACF I didn't know that cool to learn something new
@ACF but sad to see something cute hurt
It's sad, but it's just life. It doesn't always go as planned. I'm guessing the hen pecked them knowing "Somethin' ain't right with these kids".
This is like a wholesome episode of Maury. "You ARE the father!"
😂
The was a hybrid of this produced in 2010 in the Uk. It was a Male guinea to a barnevelder chicken and the chick had 4 wings
4 wings? Break out the Buffalo sauce!
WHAAAAAA-
THAT SOUNDS LIT
The older guinea you were holding is a male. Guinea fowl make different sounds, depending on their sex.
single syllable male, double are female.
@@jonathanboone3156 both my female guineas are a lot lighter color compared to the males I bought the lighter babies wondering what they'd look like as adults turn out both females all I had before that was males
@@mtndewcupseries6619 color is NOT indicative of gender in guinea fowl. They come in a lot of colors and patterns, but every single one of them comes in both male and female. The ONLY ways to tell them apart are the *slightly* larger helmet tips and the different sounds they make. Males make only one kind of call, females make different sounds. Their alarm sounds like someone screaming "come back, come back!!" at the top of their lungs, LOL, but males can't make that sound.
"Come back?" They say "buck wheat" in Virginia. 😂
😂 They say Bob White in Kansas
It's amazing to see which birds will breed with each other. You're bound to get some fun hybrids.
This reminds me of when I was a kid and I would go up the street to my neighbors farm and clean the stalls. We rode for free and there were all kinds of cows and chickens etc. loved it!
The goats, chickens, and pigs at my dads farm: *jealous*
Cute name for the duck: SCHNOZ...a nose, a big nose. Comes from the German word "schnauze" meaning snout or muzzle.
9,o
O99
Schnoz is a Yiddish word. It came from the German word but the word is Yiddish.
The rooster was scared of the guineas. Now he just jumps on their back and spreads his wild oat. 😆
lol he was "intimidated by their beauty" but finally got the courage to make a move 😏 you could say he started to get a little cocky 🐓
It's sad when a poor creature dies! Your farm animals look happy and healthy. Happy spring!
Chinea
Male is listed first, like a Liger male lion and female tiger.
Depends on what species the parents are. Not always just male first.
@@HoneycombTheywontletmeputjusto what..???
The first crosses of tiger/lion occurred when I was a kid, they called them "tiglons" back then.
Maybe it depends on which animal is the mother, like with MULES and HINNIES. Both are the cross of a horse and a donkey. If the MOTHER is the horse, it's a mule. If the FATHER is the horse, it's a hinny.
Meet the CHICKEN.
Finally, *the 9th class... SCOUTS BUCKET CHICKEN.*
"aww they saved it!"
*8 seconds later*
'it died last night'
That's because they left in the incubator all night, it became dehydrated!
@@aprilalatorre9127 That's what I was thinking. No food, no water. That said, the injury already looked infected, it must have been there a while. Might have gotten brain damage from the pecking too, they should have put the poor thing out of its misery.
@@mariemeoak306 bruuh he isn't a animal doctor and it's not his fault it's that chicken fault
@@mariemeoak306 I'm pretty sure he was talking about the hen that was pecking at the chick, not the chick itself.
@@aprilalatorre9127 electrolyte water is great.
I’m over here screaming “get up little fella” 😩
I think it would be easier if you put the emu pool in the ground since they like the drain hole so much. They might think that it’s another drain hole and get in.
2:07 ones being poked and I'm picturing it saying.. Hey? Hello wake up !! *Pecks
That poor chick:( I hope they continue to lay and hatch out some chicks!! LOVE THIS PAGE!!
I think it's so refreshing to see this dad with his son and teaching him about having a farm and all the hard work that goes with it. This young boy will grow up with very good work ethic. His father is a great roll model. The nuclear family..most kids miss out on this...these are great parents..good job folks...!
Omg your just the best those little guys were just darling ❤️
Music and Style at this intro was like a horror movie trailer
😅😅😅
Guinea-chicken hybrids are absolutely possible, but just very rare. You've got some fascinating birds on your hands!
Too bad these are pure guineas...
This breaks my heart,when I had chickens I never let them outside since it was cold and I only bought the babies.we gave them food water and a log to play with,in the spring we let them live outside.I love my babies✨☺️
Pinocchio and Hook for the ducks.
I love how one of the chicks helped there sibling out of there egg
That was so amazing!
it was probably trying to eat it, nature is so damn cruel
@@chastitypariah5262 probably trying to eat their shell, either way, it could’ve ended bad
Um, it's not a *helping* thing, that. It's their natural curiosity to peck at anything around, LOL! And it can end badly, especially if that chick isn't ready to fully hatch.
I speak from experience on that. I've lost one to the already hatched bator-mate pecking at the wrong spot and hitting a blood vessel that had not been fully emptied and dried up yet. It wasn't pretty. I tried to save the poor thing as soon as I noticed it (clotting stick to the bleeding area), but there was too much blood loss, and it apparently died of shock.
@@MaryAnnNytowl yea, that’s what sucks, I one time saw chicks pecking at their sibling in an egg, and I ended up snatching the egg away from their very angry mother and put it to the side to help it hatch, after a few painful minutes, the chick hatched and we raised the chick ourselves
I know these mix are possible, but your chicks are regular guineas
Just look at the guinea at 4:40 , it looks like a male
Agree. I raise and sell guineas and those are plain old guinea keets, not hybrid.
That’s exactly what I was going to say. They looked just like regular guinea keets and then I saw the male guinea...
As a child, I spent summers with family in the south. An aunt asked me if I wanted fried chicken for supper, city girl r that I was told her yes. You know, mom went to the store and bought some. She gave me an axe and told me to go pick out the one I wanted to eat. I became a vegetarian that day. Your vids bring back good memories
Love the channel. You're the reason I decided to make a coop and run and waiting for silkie to hatch in a few days time. Hopefully I won't get too much roosters as won't be popular with the neighbours as I live in a built up area. Looking forward to the next episode.
There ARE quieter breeds like the Australopes and Buff Orpingtons. I'm not a breeder, just did some homework a few months ago because I live the suburbs. 🐔
First thing I would do if get rid of that hen that killed those chicks.
Yeap, would make a nice soup
It's usually better to separate broody hens. I don't let my broody out until the babies can run fast and mine are super use to being around chicks.
It's sadly in their instinct. If the hen senses or smells something off with the chick, she will attack it
She knew they weren't her chicks . Needed a broodier hen
Fry that chicken
Good luck with the new babies! Love them!
Thanks, Jose!
Guineas are very underrated pets. They're not only the world's best alarm system and early warning weather station, but obsessively vigilant pest control to boot. Where I grew up they were life savers as well because they were the only way to keep the rattlers, copper heads, and cotton mouths away from the house. No other animal (man of beast)that I know of will perform all those services for you. At any price.
It's been a while since I've looked at this channel and now I remember why, it just seems like you spend more time looking at multiple commercials than you do actually watching the video.
The one chick he was blowing with a blow dryer was like
“Dude just let me die I’m trying to die now-”
Using a hair dryer on birds is really toxic for them and can kill them.
You'd want to stop doing that and do some research on it 😔
@@-cat-2244 indeed, you should never heat animals that fast, just go gradually
When naming hybrids, the male animal is usually the first part of the name. For example, a Liger would be a male lion paired with a female tiger, and a female lion with a male tiger would be a Tigon. (Or something along those lines. Since the father is a chicken, naming conventions suggest the hybrids should be called chickeas, or something like that.
It looks like your chickens have a good life before they die😊 Which makes me happy🥺🥰
Listen to the sounds the males and females sound different male guineas make 1 kind of sound females make 2 go find a video of the sound and you can tell so if one of the guineas is a male or if they were fertilized by chickens your welcome. 😄😁
This is so weird my son use to call chickens "cheenies"
When the kid says "i can hold one" i knew it... he's an smart boi!!!
Man , seeing those poor babies heads. Ahhh, my heart is breaking. That poor babys brain was exposed. It should of been put out of its misery off the bat. The pain that poor baby endured for that prolonged time. I know the feeling, save them! But the brain was exposed. Think about that pain . He dosent have no iv dilauded to help. That is the moment you say , no. I'm gonna save you this way my poor baby.
if it makes you feel any better, your brain doesn't have pain receptors in it -- it's the same reason you can get cancers in/on some of your organs and not feel any kind of pain.
I'm sure it's suffering, but not as much as you might think
Pits skull was visible, if its brain was just exposed, it would have died almost right away after it got injured. But ut wasnt the brain, but the skull
I'd like to see a follow up video of these when they mature. Do they crow like a rooster or chatter or squawk like a guinea?
The title: How did this happen?
Obi-Wan: "We're smarter than this?"
Your wife has the best smile I’ve ever seen. You can’t help but smile with her.
I just realized that if there is ever a zombie apocalypse these ppl are gonna survive
Ya know that’s odd, I’d say you have a hen and rooster from what I saw of them in the vid, but getting two guinea eggs a day is odd. I thought I saw mounting somewhere around 4:40 with the guineas but that doesn’t make up for the fact you’re getting two eggs, females also mount to assert dominance. If y’all have a guinea chicken hybrid that’s pretty cool. I have four guineas and there IS a way to tell them apart from looks, my males have a very bright white head and a purple dulap and the hens look a lot less fancy around the head
I keep seeing a male guinea in the videos...