The eggs take 26 to 28 days to hatch. Domesticated guinea fowls rarely incubate eggs thus need for a farmer to improvise and use incubators or turkeys for incubation. Guinea chicks are known as keets.

The common guinea fowl weighs about two kilograms when mature notes livestockkenya.com A mature guinea fowl goes for about Ksh2500 and above. Layers lay about 70 to 100 eggs every year.