Guinea fowls resemble local chicken but they live in the forest. They can also be kept at home to provide meat and eggs. Their meat is sweeter than chicken meat.
To keep Guinea fowls at home, you need to:
Build a house for them separate from the other chicken house. Fence around the house with chain link or chicken wire. In the fenced area plant a low growing bush like lanterna for shade and to keep them away for mating as cocks do not mate while others are seeing.
Put a little cotton wool in their ears. Guinea fowls have a strong sense of hearing and can hear others calling 5 km a way.
They will try to run a way and in the process can seriously get hurt. Feed your Guinea fowls the same feed you use to feed your chicken. Give them clean drinking water always.
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Young Guinea fowls, called keets do not know how to protect themselves from enemies like wild cats, dogs, hawks and human thieves. Guinea fowl hens do not know how to take care of their young ones. Remove keets from their mothers and give to your chicken hen or keep them in an enclosed room.
Guinea fowl hens can lay up to 70 eggs before wanting to sit on them. This can make some of the eggs to get spoilt and lead to much loss. To avoid this, remove any eggs laid within 2 weeks and give to your chicken hen or set in a specialized box called incubator to hatch.
Guinea fowls rarely fall sick; however, any time you vaccinate your chicken against disease or de-worm do the same to the Guinea fowls.
If you follow the above advice your Guinea fowls will reproduce, grow quickly and give you good profits.
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