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The Guinlet died Saturday night between the hours of 11pm and midnight, at three months and twelve days old, of complications of the respiratory system. It fought bravely to the end and died in my arms. The wee little beastie beat the odds of survival so many times that it is a real tragedy that...

At the beginning of each breeding season, when the Guinea Fowl move into the residential areas to nest, the males cause havoc wherever they can see their own reflection. They attack sliding doors, constantly knocking loudly on them. They attack cars too, jumping and clawing at them; and...

I did use a mirror, but I only thought of it when the keet was nearly a month old already; and the mirror I employed, which was the only one I could use to reach the keets level, is a small one. So the keet didn't really take to it and was more interested in been as close to me as possible and...

Thank you so very much for your post and in particular for sharing with me about this single Guinea, LP. He sounds so very sweet and adorable.

So this is a good sign that the keet could possibly be integrated into a Guinea Fowl flock if it is showing submission to another of its kind?

Since I have not much experience with fowls of any kind, as all my past rescued birds have been nest bound chicks, is the interaction seen in this above pic between "my" keet and the adult Guinea Fowl significant in any way? In other words what is the keet's body language saying by trying to get...

The keet is now 9 weeks and 3 days old. This morning was exciting for both of us, when a large Guinea Fowl family showed up. There were six adults and many almost-adult-size keets which were too busy running around to count properly. At first "my" keet sat in my arms looking at the others in...

Some Guinea Fowl dropped by this morning while the keet and I were in the driveway. The keet showing some interest after coming out from hiding behind me. One can just make out one fowl on the right and two on the left side of the keet. The closest the keet has been to another Guinea Fowl...

A few weeks ago I saw a family of Guinea Fowl early one morning, just before sunrise, while I was out walking my dog. What was noticeable about this particular family was that it was very small. Just one male (at least I think it was a male), one female and one keet, (which is roughly a week...

Thank you @R2elk I really appreciate your helpful advice.

The keet is now five weeks and 6 days old (41 days total) and is doing very well on the starter feed. At what age do I start weaning it off the starter feed onto wild bird seed (made up with seeds for the indigenous birds here) in preparation for its release? In the meantime I have been...

The keet is now four weeks and two days old (30 total days), and yesterday evening I finally realised a valuable lesson which I would like to impart to any other inexperienced person who finds themselves with a single rescued Guinea Fowl chick (keet) - especially a non-birding South African...

Update: Because of an insident yesterday morning... (see my other thread: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/savage-mini-dinosaur-a-day-in-the-life-of-a-keet.1610632/ ) ...I kept my keet indoors for the rest of the day, and I am happy to report that it is now eating the starter feed...

Just an update: I got some starter feed, but the keet is not all that interested in it. It wants to forage in the garden. Tomorrow I will throw some of the starter feed into my vegetable patch and see if keet prefers that to eating it from a dish.

Jan 2022 brood

Sneaking past the cat next door.

Picture from Jan 2022 of Guinea Fowl from our neighbourhood on one of their daily visits.

Thank you for your response. I will try to get some game bird starter feed. In the meantime I have been digging up cut-worms as well as feeding it mealworms, but my small garden is running out of bugs! lol. No spider, snail, beetle, wasp, dragonfly or any other bug is safe from this little...

We have wild indigenous Guinea Fowl in our residential area, Cape Town, South Africa, and, along with occasionally having to help them out of tricky situations that they get themselves into in our neighbourhood yards, I recently rescued a day old keet which was distress calling from the next...