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How much should I feed my guinea fowl?

How much should I feed my guinea fowl?

Consider the guinea: a hardy and unusual bird (in both looks and behavior), that does well on small farms. Guinea fowl cost $4.75-6.75 each and need $8-10 of feed (25 pounds of high protein feed) to reach adult size. Adult guineas need 5.5 pounds of 16% feed per month each, which will cost $1.60/guinea/month.

Can guinea fowl eat fruit?

Yes, we’ve mentioned watermelon already, but guinea fowl will eat any other type of fruit. You can use berries, apples, oranges, and other fruit to give them a nice, sweet treat every once in a while.

What can’t guinea hens eat?

It is safe for guinea fowl to eat bread, vegetables, rice, and really anything else off of your table that you don’t eat. Of course, as with any animal, you don’t want to only feed them bread. Adding diversity into their diet will help them get the vitamins and other nutrients they need to stay healthy and strong.

How do you keep guinea fowl in your yard?

Here are eight tips for keeping guinea fowl from flying away.

  1. Start Them Young. Guineas raised from keets are less likely to fly the coop.
  2. Raise Keets with Chicks.
  3. Let a Hen Raise the Keets.
  4. Get Mature Guineas to Adopt Them.
  5. Provide High Roosting Bars.
  6. Temporarily Confine Them.
  7. Cover the Run.
  8. Clip Their Wings.

Do guinea fowl need a coop?

Guinea fowl do need shelter but it does not necessarily have to be a coop. Being from the same family as pheasants and turkeys they prefer to roost in the trees but in order to keep them around and find the eggs easily you really need to provide them with housing and train them in it’s use.

Can Guineas eat bread?

Similar to human diets, avoid feeding your guinea pig foods with too much sugar, carbohydrates and fats. Do not feed her beans, breads, cookies, crackers, oats, potatoes or other human foods.

How do I make my guinea fowl quieter?

One way to make them relatively quiet is to hatch the keets and raise them amongst chickens. A guinea fowl’s environment plays an important role in how noisy it becomes. If you can raise the keets and condition them before they become accustomed to noise, you can control the noise.

How big of a coop do you need for 10 guineas?

Guineas need at least 2 square foot in the coop and 10 square foot of floor space in the run, which is around twice as much space as chickens do in the coop.

What are guineas birds good for?

Guineas have been used to control wood ticks and insects such as grasshoppers, flies, and crickets. Guineas can reduce keepers’ risk of Lyme disease by consuming deer ticks, which carry the disease. Guinea fowl also eat slugs, and flocks have been known to attack snakes.

Do guinea fowl eat bird seed?

The guineas love grooming some of the chickens of fleas around their heads and chickens stay motionless for some minutes while a guinea fowl checks them over, Guineas love a small amount of millet and premium bird seed as a treat, the more millet content the better.

What to feed backyard Guineas?

Guineas do enjoy a little scratch feed on the ground. They like wheat, sorghum , or millet grain and will ignore whole corn kernels. If you are keeping the guineas for pest control, restricting their feed will encourage them to spend more time eating insects.

Are Guineas good to eat?

Just like other poultry like chickens, ducks, and quail, guinea fowl are completely edible. And can be quite delicious! Before you start eating guinea lets talk about some of the characteristics that make them different than chickens.

What are Guineas good for?

The guineas are also an effective means of pest control. The flocks of guineas generally will kill and eat mice and small rats. They can also be used for controlling insects, without affecting garden vegetables or flowers. They are used for controlling wood ticks and insects such as crickets, grasshoppers and flies.