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GENIUS!I don't know whether you can ever expect them to love being handled, but with the help of some positive reinforcement, getting them to eat out of your hand and follow you around shouldn't be too hard.
I got my chicks from TSC and raised mine initially for the sole purpose of taming my guinea keets. For the first 8 weeks I had 3 guineas and 5 chicks in a brooder at night, and an outside pen during the day. One method I used for positive reinforcement was to pick them up every single morning and evening and drop them into a tote with their favorite treats (white millet and dried black soldier worms), while they ate, I would transport them out into the pen. They learned to associate being picked up with getting treats, and eventually even the very flighty and wild keets didn't panic when being picked up.