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I found this beautifully illustrated book 'Gamebirds of Southern Africa' by authors Rob Little and Tim Crowell; and artist Simon Barlow. On page 97 of this book are images of the Helmeted Guineafowl growth and development. The illustration of the juvenile at three and a half months compares...

I have updated the layout of development pictures of the keet. It still has some "baby" fluff on its head, but it has lost a lot of it over the past two or three days.

...and it is free ranging ...eating ants, spiders, snails, geckos, wasps, moths, dragonflies, grass, a variety of indigenous succulent plants, cutworms (beetle larvae), grapevine leaves (which it loves), passion fruit flowers, ...eeeerm, trying to think what else. Oh yes... leaves from the...

The keet is now ten weeks and one day old (or two months and eleven days; or 71 days total) and these next two photographs were taken today... By comparison to other images of keets I am thinking that this keet is far behind in its development. As you can see it still has most of its "baby"...

Up until it was three days old it could not walk as it was lame in its lower legs. It was fully able to fly at 20 days old, and it flys really well.

So this is me, this morning, trying to measure the keet with a standard size school ruler (30 centimetres). 🤣

My keet is seven weeks and one day (50 total days) and judging by the pictures provided here, it may be a little behind in its development. It did have a rough start in life so maybe it is to be expected that it is taking longer to mature. Someone told me that they read in a book that the...

Thank you for the link. 👍

You are an absolute star!!! Thank you so very much for this. It certainly helps.

I am wanting to compare my keet's development (size) to the average keet to be reassured that it is growing as it should. I understand that there are a few factors that could influence a keet's development, but maybe there is a standard scale one can go on? I have been searching on this website...