One site, Purely Poultry, offers 29 colors of Guinea Keets for $3.85 each for a minimum order of 15. Blue Moon Farm in tony Millbrook, NY, reports selling about the same number as Schuster this year.

For poultry keepers looking beyond the chicken, raising guinea fowl is a more exotic alternative with definite meat-producing possibilities.

A young Ghanaian who benefited from UNDP’s youth innovation challenge is boosting guinea fowl production in Northern Ghana with egg incubators he made from scrap fridges and other materials.

Eggs and newly hatched keets need a steady dry temperature of 95-plus degrees, the experts say. Besides, the hen, exposed outdoors overnight for weeks on end, is, to borrow an expression, a ...

At first, residents were entertained by the guinea fowl — some even uttered the word "cute" to describe the unusual sighting and would cheer when the keets struggled to make their way up a tree.

In this episode of Mother Earth News and Friends, learn how guineas can work as a unit to protect their barnyard flock members. Cindy Gibson is president of Guinea Fowl International, an ...

Boutique farms sell peafowl eggs and newly hatched guinea keet through the mail to customers throughout the country.

A baby guinea is called a keet, and keets are in constant motion. Since they are so small and delicate, they can be easily trampled during their first two weeks of life.

Keets have brittle bones and are easily broken, and they are susceptible to wet and cold. If you can find the eggs before they are incubated, you are lucky.

The eggs take 26 to 28 days to hatch. Domesticated guinea fowls rarely incubate eggs thus need for a farmer to improvise and use incubators or turkeys for incubation. Guinea chicks are known as keets.