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Guinea fowl keets
the keets when they first came home.... |
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I’m quite excited about keeping them. Although they will have work to do on the farm, they will be one animal that we aren’t breeding just for eating, so they are more like a pet than the others. We are hoping that among the 10 keets we will have more than one male, so we can split the group. We plan to keep a few at Eight Acres so that we can collect eggs and breed more. And take the rest of them to live and breed at Cheslyn Rise and eat all the ticks there!
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