Thank you so much for taking the time to reply. Really appreciate it.
Being cautious, though, I read this article and see some "facts" they provide to which I would, just from my personal experience, have said the opposite. For example:
"Managing Adults
If you are purchasing guineas for tick and insect control then you are better off purchasing adult guineas as they require little care and do very well on their own."
I would strongly disagree on two counts:
1) I have always recommended to anyone who asks me to get keets, as they are easy to raise and the adults are hard to relocate. They bond to the place where they grow up and to other adults and I have heard more than one hard-ache story of adults being separated from their home and dying in an attempt to return and/or crying for days when separated from a mate, since they often bond for live with one other bird in their flock.
2) Having sold keets for many years, I stopped selling them to people who think they are easy to keep and don't want to learn, as much as possible, since those people, in my experience, come back every year to get more birds since their birds get killed by predators or hit by cars, etc. I can't tell others how to treat their family and animals around them, but I do feel responsible if I hatched the birds and try to get them into good environments. And I do feel it is irresponsible to mislead people into thinking these birds are easy to keep. I have a good friend who was thus misled and very sad and upset to lose her first Guineas due to this bad advice. She did well with her birds once she got better information.
That makes me a bit hesitant to listen to the other facts/advice this article offers. I wonder if they ever had back yard Guineas. It does seem like a reputable source, though.
