I've heard guinea fowl are very noisy. If I only kept a few would they be less noisy?
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Sounds like the keet is unhappy about something. If they are new, and their needs for heat, food, and water are met, then they may just need time to settle.I just got some baby baby Guinea Fowls and one of them is soooooo loud, what can I do to make her happy and stop with the screeching? They have tons of water, they kicked out all their food they have tons of it, a heat lamp and a brooder with feathers. What else can I do? Also this is my first time dealing with them!
Guinea hierarchy is not as simple as that. It is also constantly changing.This is as good of a place as any to ask @R2elk abt hierarchy, bc mb it explains my unidentified gender goons. In GUINEA FOWL AS PETS by Roger Rodendale, he discusses hierarchy as having an alpha male who leads, protects, gets 1st pick & 1st to breed. Then he refers to the 2nd cpl, kind of like the VP, who steps in while Alpha is away to manage/protect the flock, & he has his mate.
Then he says there's a 3rd male who is nonbreeding,submissive- "meant to be helpers...practicing cooperative brooding...helpers take over responsibilities of the primary female..(bc) she's the least caring towards the eggs & the primary male will only step in after the chicks arrive." He doesn't say it but seems to imply a female counterpart taking part.
I don't agree w/his description of primary cpl.By his logic, Bella & Blu (the gender unidentified RPs) wld be the creators of both nests, bc as I've described elsewhere, those 4 are pretty attentive to whatever they've got going on out there. BUT, the concept of nonbreeding helpers cld be an explanation for the RPs. There's never been a question of who the alpha is-he's a giant, who wld try? But Nugget & Blu still chase each other all over creation while Bella runs after them and does nothing- and they still run back and forth between the two existing nests, guarding the perimeter.
On the flip side, he also uses physical descriptors to determine gender, like size, caste, waddles, etc. that most don't agree with.