Jumbo French Guinea Fowl Keets for sale
Hatching weekly year round
Jumbo French Guineas are wonderful birds to have in your backyard poultry flock! Jumbo Guineas are raised as natural tick control, farmyard watchdogs, and for meat production. They are very hardy birds after their first two weeks of age.
Meat and Eggs: After you raise guineas for thirteen weeks on broiler feed they will weigh four pounds. They grow much faster and end up being about two pounds heavier than normal Pearl Guineas. You might try raising guineas for restaurants because there is a demand for their lean, tender, dark meat. Our guinea breeder imports their breeding stock from Grimaud Freres in France because Grimaud's guineas have strong genetic potential for meat production. The fillet yield is 24% of the live weight. They do produce about 140 eggs lightly speckled eggs within a 54 week period.
Breeding: Our breeding stock is artificially inseminated to produce very high fertility in these large birds. These birds can reproduce naturally with some success but the fertility rate would not be very high.
Temperament Guineas generally will not attack people but will follow you around the yard at times. They are very able to fend for themselves on a homestead.
History Jumbo Guineas are helmeted guinea fowl that have been breed specifically to be a larger guinea than normal. The Helmeted Guinea is a native wild species is the African Sahara. Guineas were brought to America prior to the 1850's.
Color Jumbo French Guineas are pearl colored which means that they are a gray color with white polka dots.
American Poultry Association Class: Guineafowl
