can you put guinea keets in with a female pheasant?

[loriw]

I was wondering if you can put keets in with a blind female pheasant we have so she can teach them to scratch like she does. I know you can't have anything chicken near pheasants but cause guinea hens are close to pheasants if it would work as their mother is no more? Please help
Thanks
Lori

 

[Fishbone]

Your keets are 'programmed' to scratch the surface, similar to the pheasant, it will pick up some characteristics of other pen mates, but will always keep their characteristics.

I think the pheasant might benefit more from the keets!
They 'talk' while foraging, the blind pheasant might pick up on that and follow the keets

Similar situation with my dogs, a lab and a border collie/cattle dog.
They both play fetch/return, sometimes I use a kick ball, through instinct, the border collie will push it back to me with his nose, the lab will work with the collie doing the same thing as the collie, but on it''s own, the lab trys' to 'retrieve', put it in it's mouth and carry it!

 

[Fishbone]

One other thing, I have 2 week old keets, they've never been outside.
I put a cricket in the brooder pen...the smallest one ran to it and snatched it up!
It was too big for the little one, a cricket leg fell off and another keet ran over to swallow the leg!

 

[loriw]

Thanks for the info. I just wanted to make sure that it would be ok. I think she will take to them like a mother would cause our male guinea loves the pheasants we have released and when the female call he goes a running to them. I will try it later this week when the keets are ready to move to a bigger pen.