Pearl, Lavender and White are the three varieties of guinea fowls that are available. These three varieties are more or less the same the difference is in the color only. The Pearl variety is purple gray dotted with white and the Lavender guineas are light gray or dotted with white whereas the Whites are pure white and have a lighter skin.
If you decide to raise keets from your own guineas, the best option for you is to incubate the eggs yourself or better still you can give them to your hen to raise for guineas are not to be poor when it comes to brooding. There is no other treatment when incubating guinea eggs, just treat them like the hens eggs. In case you have given your hen some guinea eggs, you have to treat the hen from the infestation of lice and ensure that you change the nesting regularly. Guinea eggs take 28 days to incubate and during the last week of incubation you have to keep the eggs some light water so as to assist the keets in coming out of the shell.
Guinea fowls are kept in the farm with the hens or in some cases they are left to go wild. They still do very well if left for themselves or you can be feeding them twice a day so that they will be coming home to roost. In case you want to raise a reasonable number you have to provide them with enough space because guinea requires adequate space to play around. By allowing your guinea to go wild they will feed by themselves, eating insects and anything that that they may need. And if they are kept in a confinement they need to be fed just like the hens. Guinea fowls are fed just like turkeys but it is recommended that you feed them twice a day. The best time to feed them is in the late afternoon when you want them to return back home to spend the night in their shelter. For keets feed them with turkey starting mash and while putting them back in the brooder, you have to dip their beaks in this mash and then in water. Stater mash has 25% protein which is necessary for the proper growth.
Some of this starter mash can be oatmeal or finely chopped vegetables. As the keets grow older, growers mash and grain should be in their diet. This should be fed to the keets when they are six weeks old. You have to feed the keets with the mash four to five times a day during the first ten days. Provide the guinea with constant flow of clean water, and for the keets use a chickwaterer with a jar and you have to put pebbles in the jar so that the keets will not drown as the reach out to drink the water. When your guinea fowls are 1.5 to two pounds in weight you can now offer them for sale.