TB: What a coincidence you two are talking about these two breeds of birds! Back when I had over 100 chickens. My dad wanted me to hatch out some guineas for himself. He got two dozen eggs from a neighbor of his. I had a "Buff Orpington" LOL that had started setting. She hatched them out in 28 days. I called dad and told him he had 23 babies. I delivered the babies along with my hen, their mother, to him. I told him I wanted my hen back when she was done playing mommie with her babies.
They are very noisey, ugly birds and quite stupid on top of that. LOL I want no part of them. There are lots of ppl that love their guineas though.
Love ya'll
TOD