Can you feed month old Guinea Fowl, Dumor chick starter/grower?

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I am curious if I can start to feed my guinea fowl the same food as my 8 week old chicks. I have been getting little bags of game bird food, but I just wanted to know if I can give them the Dumor or just stick to the game bird food.
 
If it's just the 20% protein chick starter I wouldn't feed that to them, keets need as much protein as possible (28-30% is optimal) up until 6 wks old age, then a grower feed (22-24%) after that until they are 12 wks old before being put on a regular all purpose poultry or layer feed thatyas at keast 16% prptei in it.

If it's the 24% Dumor starter feed you are using, then could probably get away with feeding the keets that since they are already 4 wks old, BUT I'd be sure to supplement their diet with extra protein like meal worms, scrambled or crumbled hard boiled eggs, raw minced liver/heart/organ meats. (They still have some major growth spurts and a couple molts to go thru, so they really need the high protein/amino acid nutritional support during all that). Keets not raised on high enough protein feeds grow slowly, can develop fatty deposits around their organs and reproductive system and end up suffering health, laying and breeding issues down the line from not being fed correctly.
 

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