Ways To Start Rearing Guinea Fowl
There are a number of ways you can start rearing guinea fowl.
1) Buy hatching eggs and incubate them or get a broody hen to incubate them.
2) Buy day old keets and raise them.
3) Buy guinea fowl poults from about 6 weeks old and raise them.
4) Buy sexed adult guinea fowl from 12 weeks onwards.
An excellent book is Guinea Fowl Past & Present by Michael Roberts, here is my review of the book.
Another great book is Gardening with Guineas by Jeanette S. Ferguson
Click on this link for selected books from Amazon on guinea fowl.
I have a category specifically about guinea fowl and I have a forum which is free to join and members can chat and ask questions about guinea fowl.
Guinea Fowl Guinea Fowl Facts
I reckon we may need your forum. Animals just seem to appear at our place - no sooner than we get shot of eight lambs, we get four kittens born and the offer of some free Guinea Fowl.
Comment by notaproperfarmer — October 13, 2008 @ 12:13 pm
Hi notaproperfarmer,
Sorry it’s taken a while to reply. I hope that your kittens are growing well and that you are enjoying the guinea fowl.
Let me know if you have any questions about guinea fowl.
Kind regards
Sara @ farmingfriends
Comment by Sara @ Farming Friends — November 12, 2008 @ 5:08 pm