Quick last minute guinea keet setup

[siamese]

You need to measure the temperature at the bedding level. Day old keets can be started at 90°F to 95°F and the temperature can be lowered by 5°F each week. Adjust the height of the bulb to get the appropriate temperature in one area of the brooder.

The brooder should be big enough that the keets can freely go in and out of the heated area as they see fit. The water and feed should be away from the heated area.

You can have the keets on wood shavings as long as they are not cedar and the keets are being provided with chick grit. The keets can and do eat the shavings which will plug them up because they cannot digest them unless they have grit in their system.

Chick starter is not appropriate for keets. They have a high metabolism, rapid growth and fragile legs. They should be on a high protein (usually 28-30%) turkey or gamebird starter that has the appropriate levels of lysine, methionine and niacin.

You can give them hard boiled eggs that have been peeled and chopped or crumbled and get a good quality vitamin B complex and add 1/2 capsule to one gallon of water. The vitamin mix needs to be made fresh daily.

Do the eggs replace the protein that they don't get in the Chick Starter? I couldn't find any last year, either.

 

[R2elk]

Do the eggs replace the protein that they don't get in the Chick Starter? I couldn't find any last year, either.

No, it just gives them a higher quality protein. They still need the B vitamins that the chick starter does not have in sufficient quantity.

 

[Brahmachicken240]

Update....
They’ve all grown up. Their mother took to them again when I showed them to her.

I saw them chasing a fox down the lane the other day and they’ve chased away a few visitors too

 

[Tacswa3]

You need to measure the temperature at the bedding level. Day old keets can be started at 90°F to 95°F and the temperature can be lowered by 5°F each week. Adjust the height of the bulb to get the appropriate temperature in one area of the brooder.

The brooder should be big enough that the keets can freely go in and out of the heated area as they see fit. The water and feed should be away from the heated area.

You can have the keets on wood shavings as long as they are not cedar and the keets are being provided with chick grit. The keets can and do eat the shavings which will plug them up because they cannot digest them unless they have grit in their system.

Chick starter is not appropriate for keets. They have a high metabolism, rapid growth and fragile legs. They should be on a high protein (usually 28-30%) turkey or gamebird starter that has the appropriate levels of lysine, methionine and niacin.

You can give them hard boiled eggs that have been peeled and chopped or crumbled and get a good quality vitamin B complex and add 1/2 capsule to one gallon of water. The vitamin mix needs to be made fresh daily.

Yes because all these things are provided in the wild for the birds and babies. Guineas haven't been around for centuries because of a lack of Vitamin B complex, Lysine, niacin and game bird food.

 

[Brahmachicken240]