Guinea Fowl, male or female?

May 4, 2021
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So I’ve been calling my Guinea Fowl “she” since she was a keet just because she has been raised with my layer hens. Lol
Now she, who is named Temperance (Tempy) is 21 weeks old and I have no idea if she is in fact a she or not. She is very quiet for a guinea I’m thinking because she is the only guinea fowl I have, so I can’t tell by her sound. I originally bought two keets but unfortunately I lost my other one when they were still very young.
 

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Guinea fowl hens have a two syllable 'buck wheat' sound whereas males screech. Do a Google search on 'guinea fowl vocalizations'.
 
Your beautiful guinea keet looks like a female. My male guinea has caruncles on his nose like a turkey or a Muscovy duck. He also has only the "machine gun" alarm cry. My guinea females can also alarm but they do also call "buck WHEAT, buck WHEAT" all day.
 

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