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White Guinea Fowl

Our white guinea pen in the new barn	Guineas are great around any farm or ranch. They eat bugs like they were caviar and especially like ticks, beetles and grasshoppers. We used to have a horrible fire ant problem, but since we turned loose our flock of "attack" guineas, we seldom see an ant mound. Guineas don't scratch the ground, so they won't tear up a garden like chickens will. They just eat the bugs! They make great watch-dogs as well, and will keep snakes away! The male guinea is called a cock and the female is a hen. The male has a somewhat larger "helmet" and "wattles" and makes a one syllable call similar to: "Kee-Kee-Kee", while the hen's call is two syllable and sounds like "Buck-Wheat, Buck-Wheat". The hen can also imitate the male sound, but only hens make the two syllable sound.
Two male white guineas	The feathers on a guinea's neck kinda look like they're trying to grow to it's head, but can't quite get there.
Guinea chicks are called "keets". While baby white chickens are born yellow, white Guinea keets are not!	They're born pure white and sometimes, but not always, have a small black dot or line on the top of their head. This one must have been playing hooky when they handed out the dots.