Guinea fowl

We have guinea fowl, we must confess, for interest only!! They are beautiful though peculiar looking birds that make a lot of noise! They are meant to be great at keeping snakes away, but really, they are just fascinating to watch and listen to.

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They are very flighty, and make quite a racket when disturbed. They are uncaged (once they were out of the cage we couldn’t get them back in again!) but expect their ration of wheat (and sunflower seeds for a special treat) every morning before they go off exploring, and again every evening before they flutter high up in a tree to roost for the night.

We have not had any success breeding them as the females go and make a very secretive nest somewhere and then unfortunately don’t return due to the foxes around now and then. We have however managed to purchase fertilised eggs and hatch them under a bantam!

Keets (baby guinea fowl) with their surrogate mother

Keets (baby guinea fowl) with their surrogate mother