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Guinea Fowl keets
$25
Guinea Fowl unsexed keets hatched from 15.3.2024 still on heat - $25 each
Older keets when available off heat $30
Sexed Females and Males when available $50 each
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Guinea fowl hate snakes they will surround and kill them.
Guinea fowl are natural grazers as they will eat weed seeds, snails, slugs, bugs, insects and worms. They are fairly easy to keep and quite effective in keeping your property and gardens clean of insect pests.
If your property is isolated then the guineas will give you plenty of warning if strangers approach. They will also sound the alarm if predators are around.
Guinea fowl keets are cute, chirpy, curious and clumsy things and are so much fun to watch. They scurry about dazed, confused and excited seemingly without any sense of what they are or where they’re going.
Depending on the weather, the keets can be moved to their outdoor quarters when fully-feathered (about six to eight weeks).
There’s no denying that guinea fowl are relatively easy to keep, providing you have plenty of space. They are independent birds, self-sufficient foragers who will find much of their own food. Throughout the spring and summer, they are productive layers. Guinea fowl will lay anywhere and everywhere. The eggs are deeply flavoured, with large golden yolks and surprisingly tough shells. They are smaller than standard chicken eggs more like bantam size but their richness makes up for this.
Guinea fowl are often kept for their meat, which is regarded as a delicacy.
Even the feathers are useful they can be sold for making fishing flies or for craft/millinery work.
It’s a mistake to treat guinea fowl like chickens, although they share many characteristics. While chickens are much more inclined to domesticity, and can become very tame, guinea fowl tend to be wilder and flightier. If regularly handled from day-olds they may be reasonably friendly towards their owner, but as a rule they hate being picked up or even touched. Guineas don’t automatically go into a house to roost either, much preferring to fly to the tops of the tallest trees.
Guinea fowl originate from Africa.
There are three main feather patterns:
Fully pearled (white spots all over)
Partially pearled (some white spots)
Solid colours (no spots)
Any of these featherings may also include patches of white, typically on the fronts and wings, in which case the birds are described as ‘pied.’
Given the chance guinea fowl will live happily in the trees, but you are likely to keep them longer if they can be persuaded to live in a secure house. Not only are tree-dwelling birds at the mercy of any flying or climbing night-time predators, but they will also descend at first light in time to meet returning nocturnal hunters on the ground.
If the guinea fowl are obtained as youngsters (keets), it should be possible to get them used to living in a house or shed. Allow more space than for chickens and extra room on the perches too – the higher the perches they better they will like it. Unlike chickens, the shyer guineas won’t wait their turn to get into the house, but will simply fly upwards.
Guinea fowl dislike going into dark places.
Nest boxes aren’t necessary, as they won’t be used – guinea fowl like making their own secret nests.
An alternative is to keep the birds in a large run, so that they have no choice but to live in safety.
It’s impossible to tell males and females apart until they start calling at around nine weeks. The females make the classic two-tone sound (‘go-back, go-back, go-back’) which has been likened by some to a saw cutting metal, while the males just have one shrill note.
Older keets when available off heat $30
Sexed Females and Males when available $50 each
Picture of parents in photos
Guinea fowl hate snakes they will surround and kill them.
Guinea fowl are natural grazers as they will eat weed seeds, snails, slugs, bugs, insects and worms. They are fairly easy to keep and quite effective in keeping your property and gardens clean of insect pests.
If your property is isolated then the guineas will give you plenty of warning if strangers approach. They will also sound the alarm if predators are around.
Guinea fowl keets are cute, chirpy, curious and clumsy things and are so much fun to watch. They scurry about dazed, confused and excited seemingly without any sense of what they are or where they’re going.
Depending on the weather, the keets can be moved to their outdoor quarters when fully-feathered (about six to eight weeks).
There’s no denying that guinea fowl are relatively easy to keep, providing you have plenty of space. They are independent birds, self-sufficient foragers who will find much of their own food. Throughout the spring and summer, they are productive layers. Guinea fowl will lay anywhere and everywhere. The eggs are deeply flavoured, with large golden yolks and surprisingly tough shells. They are smaller than standard chicken eggs more like bantam size but their richness makes up for this.
Guinea fowl are often kept for their meat, which is regarded as a delicacy.
Even the feathers are useful they can be sold for making fishing flies or for craft/millinery work.
It’s a mistake to treat guinea fowl like chickens, although they share many characteristics. While chickens are much more inclined to domesticity, and can become very tame, guinea fowl tend to be wilder and flightier. If regularly handled from day-olds they may be reasonably friendly towards their owner, but as a rule they hate being picked up or even touched. Guineas don’t automatically go into a house to roost either, much preferring to fly to the tops of the tallest trees.
Guinea fowl originate from Africa.
There are three main feather patterns:
Fully pearled (white spots all over)
Partially pearled (some white spots)
Solid colours (no spots)
Any of these featherings may also include patches of white, typically on the fronts and wings, in which case the birds are described as ‘pied.’
Given the chance guinea fowl will live happily in the trees, but you are likely to keep them longer if they can be persuaded to live in a secure house. Not only are tree-dwelling birds at the mercy of any flying or climbing night-time predators, but they will also descend at first light in time to meet returning nocturnal hunters on the ground.
If the guinea fowl are obtained as youngsters (keets), it should be possible to get them used to living in a house or shed. Allow more space than for chickens and extra room on the perches too – the higher the perches they better they will like it. Unlike chickens, the shyer guineas won’t wait their turn to get into the house, but will simply fly upwards.
Guinea fowl dislike going into dark places.
Nest boxes aren’t necessary, as they won’t be used – guinea fowl like making their own secret nests.
An alternative is to keep the birds in a large run, so that they have no choice but to live in safety.
It’s impossible to tell males and females apart until they start calling at around nine weeks. The females make the classic two-tone sound (‘go-back, go-back, go-back’) which has been likened by some to a saw cutting metal, while the males just have one shrill note.
- Date Listed:23/04/2024
- Last Edited:23/04/2024
- The state where this ad will be found:VIC
- Number of birds:3
- Available:23/04/2024
- Gender:Both
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