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  1. GuineaMania

    Dried grass for keet bedding

    Hi everybody, I know it is recommended to start guinea fowl keets on paper towels for the first couple of days due to the risk of them eating bedding, but the paper towels can get really messy. Would it be safe to have guinea keets on dried grass bedding when they are really young? Would there...
    • GuineaMania
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    • #baby chicks #guinea keet brooder bedding dried grass keet
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: Guinea Fowl
  2. N

    Sick Babies?

    i had eight 3-day-old baby guineas and i check them nearly every hour, sometimes more than that, and theyve very suddenly gotten sick. One has already passed very quickly. they all have very swollen poopy butts, and when i go to wipe them very gently, it seems to let out a waterfall of poop! so...
    • novam
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    • chick diarrhea dying keet sick sick keets urgent urgent help needed
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Guinea Fowl
  3. Gill-b

    Anyone speak (Guinea) fowl language?

    The keet is constantly communicating with me through chirping - from the moment I say good morning to it, till the time the sun goes down. I have come to recognise some of its keet language and here are a few sounds I think I have managed to translate: 1. The sound it makes most often of all is...
    • Gill-b
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    • cape town chirping guinea fowl keet language noises sounds south africa translation
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Guinea Fowl
  4. Gill-b

    Pics of Development Stages of Guinea Fowl?

    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...
    • Gill-b
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    • baby bird cape town chick development guinea fowl indigenous keet rescue south africa stages
    • Replies: 16
    • Forum: Guinea Fowl
  5. Gill-b

    Savage mini dinosaur - a day in the life of a keet.

    The keet (26 days old) showed me in person this morning, just what little savages fowls can be. It caught a gecko and, after knocking it about a bit, swallowed it whole. I already knew fowls to be so, but to witness it just a few inches from my eyes is a little... well... I can't think of the...
    • Gill-b
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    • advice baby bird cape town chick feed guinea fowl indigenous keet rescue south africa
    • Replies: 37
    • Forum: Guinea Fowl
  6. Gill-b

    Indigenous Guinea Fowl rescued keet

    We have indigenous Guinea Fowl in our residential area, Cape Town, South Africa, and, along with occasionally having to help them out of tricky situations that they get themselves into in our neighbourhood yards, I recently rescued a day old keet which was distress calling from the next street...
    • Gill-b
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    • baby bird cape town chick guinea fowl indigenous keet rescue south africa
    • Replies: 37
    • Forum: Guinea Fowl
  7. C

    Guinea keets is sick

    So I don’t exactly know what is exactly wrong with this keet he is looking kinda lethargic and sickly I gave him some vertrx and some grasshopper because I noticed he wasn’t eating as much and know I’m gonna try to give him a boiled egg any ideas why he is doing this thanks
    • Casron007
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    • guinea guinea keet keet keet care sick guinea
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: Guinea Fowl
  8. 907poultry

    4 Week Old Keet Survives Alone Outdoors For Entire Night- 30 degrees!

    I live in a warmer part of Alaska currently, it is May and the temps only drop to 30 degrees at night. I’ve read that guinefowl keets should be kept at 80 degrees at 4 weeks old, but have allowed many 3 week olds to go outdoors on hot spring days (45 degree weather), with no ill results. The...
  9. T

    New member!

    Hello! I'm a new member!! As well as New to having my OWN backyard Guinea Fowl (we have 3 keets to start) As well as a 1st time "surrogate" mom to 2 beautiful ducklings!! 1 pekin and 1 Black indian runner duckling! I have grown up helping out on family farms and was Especially Always...
  10. Reiki Rooster

    Built a poult brooder box!!

    We built a poult brooder box but I’ll def use it for chicks and keets too...as the time comes
  11. Neko_

    Gineau fowl keet lower leg out of place!!

    My little gineau keet has it's leg out of place, and I don't know what to do. The leg is at a 90° angle from where it should be and is having a lot of trouble walking and getting food and water. The little keet is a few weeks old and it might be too late to do anything about the leg, I do know...
  12. A

    Guinea hen x Ameraucana rooster cross

    I was wondering if this could actually happen. My young rooster feels my guinea hen is ready to breed and has proceeded to try to mount her multiple times now but he’s so small compared to her that I have a feeling it will never be successful. I tried looking online to see if anyone has had such...
    • akostka1988
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    • ameraucana breed chick cross crossbreed guinea hen keet rooster
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Guinea Fowl
  13. E

    My duckling is picking on my little guinea baby

    I just went and picked up two ducklings and a keet last night, and I already have one duckling. My yellow duckling is maybe a week older than the little ones I just brought home but it has a terrible habit of picking on the keet. Does anyone have advice on how to prevent this before my duckling...
    • Eggsyduckie
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    • duckling duckling behavior guinea keet keet keet care
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Ducks
  14. Dobiegirl22

    Cleaning Guinea Brooder

    Hello! Brand new to the bird world. I ordered ten guinea keets that arrived a week early, yesterday! I spent the previous weeks researching guinea for tick control. I frequently see Guineas around my neighborhood (wandering, screaming, trying to get hit by cars :D) and I’ve been fascinated. So...
  15. lazytrucker

    Help! What do I do with this newly hatched keet??

    I had one keet hatch last night at 11pm in my incubator. I have one left to hatch that was staggered 2 days behind. I'm hoping to have my broody chicken raise them. She was a bit flakey switching eggs so I took the good ones from her and gave her fake eggs. I think I'm going to leave it in the...
  16. libarena

    Guinea keet with twisted foot and can’t walk

    We got guinea keets this morning and everyone else is doing well except for this one little dude. He can’t stand or walk. His bad leg has his foot completely closed. We are able to stretch it out but he refuses to use it. I tried making a little cast to support him in spreading his toes. He...
  17. Texifornia

    Orphan keet... hen won't take late hatchling?

    So we let our broody hen sit on a clutch of eggs, some hers and a few from the guineas. A week ago a single chick hatched. Broody sat for another day or two, then gave up on the rest and has been in mommy mode with the one chick, scratching in the coop all day. Last night at lock up, I heard...
  18. HarmonyFox

    Guinea keet with umbilical cord hanging out?

    So this keet hatched with the cord wrapped around it's body and I ended up having to cut it because it started to suffocating it. I cut it and it bled a bit but it's ok now. The only problem is that it looks so different than the umbilical cord I've seen before on chicks so I just want to make...
  19. T

    Keet Emergency!?

    Hi, I've been raising Guineas for the past 10 years and have stumbled upon an issue with this years hatch (so far). I have two keets that for some unknown reason, are acting sickly. They are from a batch of 15 that hatch on varied days due to another hen laying in the brood hen's nest. The...
    • thatsavourycat
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    • emergancy emergency guinea guinea keets keet keets seizure
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Guinea Fowl
  20. Liv's chickens

    PLEASE READ! Guinea keet with strange growth and is dying

    Hello, I Have a have a Guinea keet that I got almost a week ago and has had constant pasty butt and also has a strange “growth” like thing near its vent. I soak and clean the keet up many times a day and it has seemed healthy but today it definitely looks weaker and I really don’t know what this...
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