Sexing
It's all about guinea fowl...
Guinea Fowl are impossible
to sex as young birds. I found the only way was to wait until they started
calling at about 9 weeks. The call is a sure way of telling the
Guinea fowl apart as only the females have a two note sound best described
as “Pot-rack, Pot-rack”. The male birds produce a
single note, be careful though because females can also produce a single
call!
Much amusement was had sitting beside the pen waiting for the birds
to call and when they did, marking them with the end of a stick dipped
in food colouring. You could guarantee that the moment I sat down
beside the pen there was not a sound and they all looked at me as if
to say, “what are you waiting for?”
When the birds are a bit older the males can be identified by their
larger wattles, and bigger helmet on their head.
