Hi All,
Mike who lives in Borneo sent me some more photos of his guinea fowl.
I have missed watching keets grow up this year as I haven't hatched out any guinea fowl as I had hoped that some of my guinea fowl hens that went broody would hatch some eggs but couldn't get them to stay on their nest when I added some protection for them! Maybe next year!
Thanks Mike for the photos. They look like the will be pearl coloured guinea fowl.
Kind regards
sara @ farmingfriends
Hi Sara
The slightly older troop of 5 have now joined the adult 2 to make a gang of 7. I am slightly confused as the 2 adults I bought as adults and was told they were female and they did not have any males. However, these 2 have only ever made to single tone call (or so I think) (hack hack hack hack etc when they get agitated). Over the week end I heard the unmistaken 2 tone call just like your video clip, but have assumed it came from one of the newer 5. At least that proves that there is more than more of each!!!! If a group of females were kept together with no males for a over a year - would they still make the 2 tone call?
I just want to be sure that the place where I got these 2 adults is right - it should be as it is a government research establishment!!
I am now trying to get in touch with them to confirm what they told and sold me nearly 6 months ago.
Regards
Mike
Hi Mike,
What you will probably find when it is breeding season is that the guinea fowl will pair off and hang about in smaller groups which is usually the groups that they were first raised amongst. All 23 of my guinea fowl now spend the full day together as the breeding season and egg season is over, although I did get one egg today as I kept them in as it was raining heavily.
If your 2 adults were a male and female then they would be one group next breeding season and then the 5 may stick together or split up into a 3 and a 2 depending on the gender. Watch out for this behaviour the pairing up or small groupsing in the Spring and then all of them haging about together again in the Autumn. It is so fascinating to watch.
Interesting I do have quite a few males and although there is a few squaring up and chasing one another around, they do generally get on ok since they are able to free range during the day.
Yes I believe the females would make the two syllable call even if there were no males as they call out to each other regardless of gender.
You should be able to train them to respond to your voice. If I call out "Cooooooome on, cooooooome on!" and I repeat this, the guinea fowl start to head towards the hut when it is about the time that they need to be going in for the night.
Hope all this helps.
Best Wishes
Sara @ farmingfriends
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