Guinea Fowl keets & adults available seasonally in the Mackay & District. Breeding standard colors and variations.
Pearl (& Pied) Lavender (& Pied)
*Chocolate *Cinnamon * Peach *Ivory *Silver *Periwinkle (+pied = white covering)
*Sold Payment Panding*
There will be another group ready in 2 weeks.
Ihave a group of 5 keets available now. 4x pearl (standard color) and 1x lavender. Collect today or tomorrow from Finch Hatton.
They are nearly 8 weeks of age so a great size.
I'm sorry I did lose my list of people waiting.
For People that are asking about keets or birds, I've started to list a few things for when you get your birds so that you can keep them safe and grow them out.
My keets will come with a couple of days of food and wormer to get you started.
They CAN already fly so you will need a roof on your pen so they don't fly away and so they don't become some other predators dinner. Ideally their new home will be snake mesh, or at the very least predator safe with a roof, a perch or 2 or 3 and some room to move. Our pens are 3m wide x 8m long and high enough for me to stand up. One end is tin on the sides and roof with cement floor, the rest of the run is snake proof mesh on sides and top. There are perches and branches at either end and the middle.
They should be kept locked up for at least the next 2 months, if not longer, to allow them to grow safely and 'home' themselves. When you let them out, let only 1 or 2 out at a time for a few hours before putting away again.
They need wind and rain proof safe perching area (important - take note!) until they are fully feathered.
If they get too wet they can succumb to chills and die, they are not strong enough to go through poor weather until they are fully feathered which is 4 to 6 months.
They eat bugs, seeds, ticks, spiders etc and anything they can scavenge while out and about. While locked up you can feed them grass, lettuce etc, I also get crickets, meal worms and sometimes even cockroaches from the pet shop for them.
Feed them either game bird seed or chook seed.
Don't forget to worm them! Young birds succumb very quickly to worms and especially coccidiosis which is a ground parasite. Our young birds are wormed every 2 weeks while here and I encourage you to implement a worming program while they are young.
Keets and birds are very social and are safer and thrive in flocks. Like any flock or herd they also have hierarchy.
Have you considered your neighbours and if they will like the birds? When they are out and about, they dont respect fence lines and will likely wander into neighbouring properties. While this is never normally an issue, always pays to have a chat with your neighbours.
Guinea Fowl are not like chooks and dont usually become super tame. They are good with routine though and will happily forage free all day and then perch inside a pen of a night if this is your routine and teach them.
When collecting your keets or birds ensure you have a well ventilated cage or box that is safe for cartage. My favourite is what's commonly known as a cat carrier - well ventilated and escape proof! (see pic). YOu can usually pick these up cheaply for $20 or $30 on marketplace etc.
Morning, the birds have just started to lay eggs so we are still a few weeks off having anything go into the incubator. Eggs then take approx 28 days to hatch. Looking at early to mid January for keets.
NO EGGS available at this time.
Hi Everyone we are getting lots of message asking about birds so I thought I would share some info.
Unlike chickens that lay most the year round, Guinea Fowl have a specific breeding time which is over our summer in Australia. So they will start to mate in the coming weeks & months and then they will nest.
This means no keets (baby Guinea fowl) until perhaps December, but that will vary. They should lay right through to March/ish.
We don't have older birds for sale and will offer our keets for sale when we them available.
Birds are wormed, off heat and ready to go from about 6 weeks of age, any younger and the survival rate lowers. I won't be offering single birds but will sel them in groups of 5 or more. Why? They are a flock bird and need a flock for social skills and survival, which is particularly important whilst young.
You will need a secure pen with a roof and somewhere for the baby birds to get out of the wind and rain for at least the first 6 months of age. They will also need to be locked up for a minimum of 4 to 6 weeks initially as well so they don't wander and get lost and take up residence elsewhere.
Unfortunately our girls are taking an extended break this year & have not shown any interest in egg laying.
Guineas do like to nest in the rain though (strange birds for sure) so perhaps with the onset of the wet will see some of them start to lay.
1st place to our young female cinnamon guinea at the Finch Hatton Agricultural show this weekend.
We didn't breed this lovely girl, we acquired her from our friends at QT Guinea Fowls in Townsville last season on a color bird exchange that will boost both our breeding programs and keep the bloodlines clean.
So the breeding season has finished and all the birds are moulting. Here are some color variations for those who have asked.
6 guinea fowl keets available. 2x Pearl (standard color) and 2x lavender.
Available for collection this weekend or may be able to meet on my travels.
4-5 weeks old. wormed and ready to go
Last incubator hatch of guinea fowl for this season, born on Valentines Day ❤🐣
1x cinnamon or peach (TBD)
3x chocolate
2x ivory or Silver (TBD)
Sometimes we need a few days for the babies to dry out and reveal their correct colors.
8x guinea fowl keets. Wormed, vitamins and off heat 2 week's. Ready to go now. Pick up Finch Hatton.
These babies have just departed for their journey to an exchange breeding program with our northern Guinea fowl friends.
We like to exchange birds where we can with other breeders as this brings in new bloodlines & offers diversity to our birds and stops issues associated with inbreeding.
Excited to see reciprocated birds next week 🙂
Male Peach and Male Choc.
As of next Fri/Sat/Sunday 22/23/24 Jan we will have more young birds available as follows:
8x 8 week old Ivories
6x 3 week old Pearl (standard color)
6x 3 week old Ivories
Please meaaage us if you're interested in some birds. Minimal 4 bird purchase ideal.
Compared to chickens, guinea fowl are low-cost and low-maintenance, and do a standout job as chemical-free pest control. They love to forage in pairs and in groups in the grass for insects, spiders, ticks etc and also like grass seeds and grass itself but to a lesser extent.
A domestic guinea hen lays seasonally and so for us in Australia, this is typically November through to Marxh with some variation dependant in season and geography.
Once our keets come off heat they are moved outside - weather permitting - to one of our tractor enclosures. They are small, but allow us to move them to fresh grass each day, the birds get to eat grass, forage and have lots of sunlight to help them grow and are very safe.
From there they head off to their new homes, or for the keepers go into a large run for another 6 weeks, after which they join the free range birds.
Just sorting the young keets today between showers. I have more Ivory birds than I realised.
If you would to add some ivory colour to your flock please PM me.
They are 5️⃣0️⃣ each.
SOLD 🙂
Not really guinea fowl... but have 4x Plymouth Rock available for purchase. Approx 10 weeks old, looks like 3x hens and possible 1x roo.
Baby peach guinea fowl. (first for the season).
Baby guinea fowl - keets- do not do well in the rain or wet for very long.
When you ate preparing an area for your new birds, things to consider are:
* Fully enclosed pen with roof to keep the birds in, and, to keep snakes and other predators out.
* An area where they can get out of the wind and rain and stay warm and dry, a particular Important one given our summer rain season.
* They are happy to eat chook food, game bird seed and also like meal worms and leafy food scraps.
* They appreciate fresh grass and love seeds and insects.
* They are a flock animal, hence I like to sell a minimum of 4 which ensures their social needs are met and they are safer from predators
* They live well alongside chooks, but won't dig your gardens up like chickens will.
* They can be noisy!! So if you are on a small block, discuss with your neighbours first 🤪
We like our birds and like to show them as well as it gives us a good measure of how the birds are perceived and viewed.
Here is one of our home bred cinnamon girls at the local Ag Show in 2019 (obviously no shows for 2020).
Like Peach?
Meet Peaches, one of the male peach guinea fowl we have here. He loves to sit on my shoulder or arm while I do the farm chores of an afternoon.
Note that guinea fowl are not usually a quiet placid bird so if you would like one or more to be quiet like this, you will need to handle daily from a young age.
Also have you noticed his red eyes? Peach and Cinnamon are the 2 color deviations that carry this unusual eye color. It does effect their eye sight, particularly at night time, with their sight not as good as the normal black eyed birds.
Guinea Fowl keet 2 days old. Milk bottle cap to show size comparison.
Keets (baby Guinea Fowl) are teeny tiny and really fragile creatures.
This one here is around 5 days old and is a good example of the Lavander color.
He/She had their first day out in the day pen on the lawn today with the other young birds
Guinea Fowl have the 2 standard colors - Pearl & Lavender. Here in this picture we have (starting at top > right) Ivory, Chocolate, Pearl (2x smaller birds), Chocolate large & small bird, Ivory, 2x small Pearls, Chocolate, 2x small Pearls, Chocolate, 1x small pearl then finally my favorite - Peach
One of our young chocolate females growing out for a friend.
The white horizontal strip on her chest is called "pied" markings, so technically her color is Chocolate Pied. Chocolate are are real chocolate color... think a bar of milk chocolate or a cup of hot chocolate and that's their color.
A must for chocolate lovers!
We have Pearl & Lavender (standard color) guinea fowl keets available now as well as 2x pairs Ivory keets. Please PM us for prices.
Keets are well raised, not requiring heat, wormed and ready to go.
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Guinea Fowl babies (keets)
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