I have two guineas, Jack and Jill, that I thought were a male and a female. I bought them from an old man in a parking lot and I told him I wanted a male and
a female. They were young. He picked them up, turned them upside down, and said you could tell by the way they held their legs out, one stuck them straight
out and the other pulled them in closer to the body. One does have way bigger wattles than the other. Nests keep appearing, and I keep busting them up,
because we have heavy dew every day and I have read that when she leads the keets off through the dew, they chill and die. Every time I move the eggs to their
cage, she refuses to accept them. I am afraid for her to not sleep in the cage because we have heavy bird predation. I feel bad for busting up the nest so
many times. Last night I let the guinea sleep on the nest like the guinea wanted. My question: the one on the nest is Jack, with the bigger wattles. I
looked on the internet some and it says rheas are hatched by the males, sometimes the gander will set, sometimes the cock will take a turn when the female goes
to feed in other species. Can my male guinea be setting, or do I have two females? I can't tell them apart by their calls, but that might be my fault.
If I have two females, they'll never hatch, unless my silver duckwing bantam cock fertilized them. I have seen him getting on top of guineas, but I
don't know if he's just emphasizing that he is at the top of the pecking order, or really having sex with them, or just Jill but not Jack, or both of
them. Should I bust up the nest again? The place where the nest is this time looks a little safer than previous nests. I don't really need any more than
two guineas, but they just want to do their own natural thing, and I feel sorry for them. Help! What's going on and what should I do? Thanks.



