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A Hatchaholic's Dream Come True
Each Generation Of Guinea Fowl Is Tamer
Guide To Buying A Chicken Coop
Guinea Fowl Are Remarkable Animals
Guinea Fowl - Great Birds to Keep
Guinea Fowl Coop - Camper Conversion
Guinea Fowl Egg Candling photos
Guinea Fowl Egg Hatching Chart: Printable
Guinea Fowl Egg Incubation Setup
Guinea fowl feed, medication, & first aid
Guinea Fowl Have Poor Night Vision
Guinea Fowl Mothers Are Formidable Protectors
Guinea Fowl Take Care Of Their Own
Guinea Fowl: The Natural Insect Exterminators
Heated Water Bowl for Guinea Fowl
How To Get Guinea Fowl Out Of A Tree
How-to Train Guinea Fowl to Come When Called
Incubator Or Nest – Which Method Is Best For You
The Life of a Guinea Fowl Keet
Pearl Gray Guinea fowl Photo Essay
Pearl Gray Guinea fowl Photo Essay - Part II
Pearl Gray Guinea fowl Photo Essay - Part III
Pearl Gray Guinea fowl Photo Essay - Part IV
Pearl Gray Guinea fowl Photo Essay - Part V
Pearl Gray Guinea fowl Photo Essay - Part VI
Pearl Gray Guinea fowl Photo Essay - Part VII
Peculiar Guinea Fowl Sleeping Arrangements
Photos & instructions of Ladder type Roosts for Guineas
Photos of a Guinea hen raising her keets
Poultry Terms, Trivia And Misnomers
Putting Keets with Adult Guinea Fowl
Reliable Egg Incubators From $50 Up
Tee-Pee Shelters or Hides for Guinea Fowl
The Helmeted Guinea Fowl Casque
Waterers and feeders plus buying tips
What To Feed Adult Guinea Fowl and Keets
Where To Buy Baby Chicks Online
As each generation of Guinea fowl is born out on the free range and raised by the mother hens and the flock, they become increasingly tame – and friendly.
Guinea fowl are highly adaptive birds that are kept all around the world in almost every imaginable climate and geography, so keet life can vary dramatically. Photos Included.
A 3½ week old pearl gray Guinea fowl keet has adopted an unusual behavior – it roosts on top of its mother hen every night. Photos Included
Guinea fowl are instinctively good at building nests, but their nests are not like those of most other birds. Here are some things that make them unique.
Guinea fowl and wild turkeys are both ground dwelling birds. Our Guinea fowl get along well with the wild turkeys that live on our place. Photos included.
Guinea fowl keets born to the flock on the free range get wet, often on the day they're hatched. Keeping keets dry is not at all critical to their health. Includes Photos
Guinea fowl are not known for flying, but do make short, powerful bursts of flight. Guinea fowl can glide extremely well for long distances. Photos included
The helmeted Guinea fowl got its name from the casque on top of its head, which somewhat resembles a helmet of sorts. But it has purposes.
A brief article including 7 photographs of the first free range pearl gray Guinea fowl keets born to our flock of pearl gray Guinea fowl here in 2011.
Guinea fowl eat lots of insects when out on the free range, but they also love their vegetation. Here are some photographs of that vegetation and an article
Two Guinea fowl nests built on a steep hillside are shown with photographs and discussed. One nest loses eggs to gravity while the other nest does not
Preening is a behavior that must surely allow the Guinea fowl to remove parasites such as ticks and some mites.
Introducing new keets to adult Guinea fowl is always problematic. Here's the preferred method and a backup process if that method doesn't work
A brief article that discusses incubating Vs nest hatching Guinea fowl eggs. Both have pros and cons. Pick the method that best suits your situation
Sometimes it's necessary to get one or more Guinea fowl out of a tree. This article tells you the very best way to accomplish that task quickly and easily
Do Guinea fowl mourn? This writer is sure that they do. This brief treatise explains how he concluded that these amazing birds do indeed mourn
Guinea fowl mothers may only weight 3-4 pounds, but they have sharp talons and beaks and will defend their keets with fearless, unrelenting vigor
Guinea fowl have the exceptional vision necessary to catch countless tiny insects during daylight hours, but no night vision at all
Montana gumbo is a super sticky, astoundingly, heavy wet mud that mires down anything that gets into it, including unsuspecting Guinea fowl
Guinea fowl are ground dwelling birds that fly powerfully, excel at gliding, ravenously eat insects and can thrive in frigid climes despite their desert origins
A printable chart to help track your guinea fowl egg incubating of indoor and outdoor nests.
Maybe your Guinea fowl will need heat in the winter, maybe not – find out here, and how to provide heat for your Guinea fowl when necessary.
Is your guinea fowl coop ready for winter? Guinea fowl owners know that extra care for their birds during the winter months is a necessary task. My list of tips is a great starting point to preparing your guinea fowl flock for impending winter weather.
You can start your own flock of insect-eating guinea fowl with day-old keets or by purchasing fertilized hatching eggs. There are hundreds of breeders who sell hatching eggs, but which one should you use? What's required to hatch? Read on to find out.
Springtime is the perfect time to order baby chicks online. Many of the big hatcheries are running specials on egg layers, rare breeds and broilers. Select a hatchery that offers a good guarantee, and that is located in or near your state.
Grow strong, healthy guinea fowl using my feed suggestions and feeding tips. Since feed mills are not making a Guinea Fowl feed, you'll need to locate a suitable game bird or poultry feed in order to satisfy the diet requirements your guinea fowl.
Photos of waterers and feeders for chicks, keets, hens and roosters. Try to choose plastic instead of galvanized. It will be easier to sanitize and won't rust.
Prospective owner, new owner or seasoned keeper, use my guide to Guinea fowl information online to quickly find the very best resources and websites, forums, videos, photos, books, recipes and gifts – all geared towards Guinea fowl.
These tee-pee type hides for Guinea Fowl are something we came up with for broody hens to use while free-ranging our farm. The hides will help to protect them while they sit on their nest of eggs.
Before you set your hatching eggs, make sure you have a dependable egg incubator ready to go. The market is full of unreliable egg incubators. Read my list of suggested egg incubators, so you don't end up putting all your eggs into one bad basket.
A lighthearted, informative look into some terms, trivia and misnomers in the world of poultry. Keeping poultry is gaining popularity in non-rural areas. Brush up on your poultry knowledge and impress your neighbor when he gets 3 Frizzle chickens.
The guinea hens are raising their own keets. Photos Included.
Guinea fowl will roost inside a coop, a closed yard or in the trees. If you build them a roost, more than likely they will at least try it out, if not prefer it to the trees. Before you build your roost, decide where it will go and how big you can make it. Photos Included.
This adult pearl gray Guinea fowl is "skipping." Skipping is the Guinea fowl equivalent of a jet using its afterburners – or in Star Trek – warp speed. Skipping requires the use of the legs and the wings. The legs make long strides, assisted by forward and upward bursts of power generated by the wings.
These pearl gray Guinea fowl keets are enjoying some millet with their adult guardians. We learned that when we give the entire flock millet, the keets were in jeopardy of being accidentally hurt during the "feeding frenzy."
Loppy has the most uneven wattle lengths in the flock. Loppy also has the distinction of being one of the first Guinea fowl we could definitively recognize. As best as we could tell, Loppy didn't have a hen Guinea fowl this year. Maybe having such uneven wattles doesn't sit well with the Guinea fowl hens.
No photo essay about Guinea fowl would be complete without some photographs of flying Guinea fowl. We think we have captured some of the best Guinea fowl flight photos we've seen. So here goes… in this photograph, we see 3 pearl gray Guinea fowl taking off one right after the other.
Our flock of pearl gray Guinea fowl will eat snow. Maybe it's the equivalent of a snow cone to them, or maybe they like the pecking and eating activity – who knows. They eat a lot of snow during the winter, and they always eat snow off of a hard surface – never the ground. At least we've never seen them eat snow off the ground.
If one spends enough time studying the Guinea fowl eggs, it's possible to identify which hen laid which eggs. Each Guinea fowl hen lays unique looking eggs, with some occasional anomalies. The Guinea fowl eggs shown are quite different than store bought chicken eggs – all of which appear almost identical.
Male Guinea fowl display to show females what a wonderful looking, large, strong, dominant bird they are. They also display for other male Guinea fowl to show how big and powerful they are. Photos Included.
Photos of guinea fowl keets hatching out of their eggs. Guinea fowl keets begin hatching on day 26 through day 30. Photos Included.
Diagrams and information to help you hatch your keet and chick eggs. Photos Included.
Keeping Guinea fowl is rapidly becoming popular, and with good reason. Guinea fowl eat lots of insects everyday, including disease laden ticks. If you're going to keep Guinea fowl, you really need to teach them to come when they are called. Here's how. Photos Included.
Tips on how to build a Guinea Fowl Jungle Gym. Photos Included.
As we searched the internet for the perfect heated water bowl, we decided we should look for a heated water bowl that would also work for our flock of pearl gray Guinea fowl. Photos Included.
Guinea fowl are susceptible to several foot and leg abnormalities and injuries. Some of these abnormalities are congenital, others occur during the early stages of Guinea fowl keet development when the legs, feet, tendons and relevant muscles are not yet developed and strong. Photos Included.
Guinea fowl are voracious insect eaters. These ground dwelling birds will quickly eliminate ticks and other insects from their foraging areas. They are also very entertaining birds that bond to family members and pets. Photos Included.
Our routine had been to collect eggs daily for eating or incubating. But we decided to cast fate to the winds and allow the hens to brood the eggs until they hatched. Photos Included.
The size, shape and altitude of a roost will all play a role in whether the Guinea fowl like the roost or not. If you are new to keepting Guinea Fowl, then Guinea Fowl Roost Options are something you should consider. Photos Included.
The coyote and a golden hawk are frequent visitors of our ranch. Both predators have guinea fowl high on their dining list. Photos Included.
Keep keets or chicks warm in a brooder box. This is where they will live until they are fully feathered and moved out to the coop with the rest of the flock. Photos Included.
Guinea fowl feeds, medications and first aid items. Photos Included.
Guinea fowl eggs incubating using a Hova-bator #1588. Photos Included.
Photos of guinea fowl eggs being candled at day 9 of the 28 day hatching period.
You can build a mighty fine coop out of a pull behind camper trailer. It's the perfect way to recycle and create a palace for your poultry. Photos Included.
Guinea fowl are becoming common fixtures on America's rural and suburban landscapes. Their ability to rid an area of insects is unparalleled, and they make superb watch dogs. Easy to acquire, raise and maintain, the age of the Guinea fowl is upon us. Photos Included.
Before you buy an expensive chicken coop, consider converting a storage shed, used camper or dog house into a chicken coop. My guide to buying a chicken coop will give you suggestions and ideas on how to find and buy a chicken coop for your poultry.
I had to think about it for a while, but here is how I would define an aggressive Guinea fowl: the same Guinea fowl repeatedly throughout the entire year attacks and injures or kills other Guinea fowl.
Hatchaholics can't help themselves – they love to incubate and hatch 100's of poults every season! Not an easy task to accomplish – but my dream package of incubating equipment and supplies will lessen the task and enhance the enjoyment.