Interesting Fact About Helmeted Guinea Fowl

 in my opinion this bird id beautiful with the white speckles like pearl in its feather. The big or large bird live in African Savanna. It eat some grain, tuber and alsi insect. Here some interesting fact about Guinea Fowl.

crested Guinea Fowl the bare naked Guinea Fowl

This is the unique fowl. Like the brother guinea fowl. The crested is unique. In my opinion the bare naked fowl similar to the bare naked chicken from Asia or Europe. The Guinea fowl is identical to black with dense white spot. The crested is the fowl that have backward creatwd that the crested similar to chicken crested 

There at least three aub species of c

The crested. The distribution ia East Africa, Central Afrva and South Africa. The chicken has blue skin in the neck that is similar to Kasoari. The blue pale color make this bird very uniquem the feet is alim and also . They live at sub Sahara, Savanna, forest land, they eat grain , smallani nsect, grass and small animal. They are controller of small insect. 

This bird live in a flock. They forage together in savanna. 

 

Plumed Guinea Fowl

THe bird come from Central and eastern Africa. The habitat of the bird is primary forest. The bird is a family of the guinea fowl. The plumed is almost resemble to its brother helmeted guinea fowl. The special of plumed characters that make it different to its brother is the straighter and higher crested. The height is only 45-51 cm, weighing almost 1000 g or one kilogram The bird diet is plant and insect.Like other bird they love almost plant such as leaves, root, fruit, seed and shoots. They also love insects that they can find at forest. There are two plumed subspecies: Cameron plumed Guinea fowl and Schultz plumed guinea fowl. The western subspecies has dull-grey blue face and neck; while, the eastern has orange patches among the grey blue face and neck. read also: guinea fowl How to Sex Guinea Fowl

How to raise Guinea Fowl

Raising Guinea fowl is not difficult. You can raise the bird as free range bird. Guinea fowl is a peaceful bird so you can care it with chicken, turkey, and others in a backyard. Off course, you cannot put this bird with other birds chicken in a coop.

You need a pair of guinea fowl. Do not put more than one guinea cock in a backyard. The cock will fight each other to lead the territory and the hen. 

Feed them with common poultry food. It also like grain like corn, paddy, oat,

Provide water silo inside the cage or the backyard. Clean it periodically. Do not let the moss make it green.

Clean and disinfectant the cage periodically

Provide the nest box for the hen so it can lay inside the box.

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The benefit of raise guinea fowl

Guinea fowl is also important for the crop. It can eliminate so much bugs that eat potato plant. They can eat more bugs but they do not crush the potato plant. They also can keep cotton and strawberry plant. You do not have to buy insecticide to kill the bugs.

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Unlike chicken, guinea fowl do not use the claw to catch the bugs. They do not disturb the plant. We can put four guinea fowl for a acre land. When winter, you should not let them outside. Their feet cannot stand with the winter cold. Let the guinea fowl outside will make them wild. They will stay at the tree at the night.
This bird is similar to goose. They have very loud sound that warn you. They can detect anything that close to them.
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Guinea Fowl : Good bird pet from Africa that similiar to Turkey

Guinea fowl is an African fowl that have been domesticated people. The African people raise the bird for its meat and eggs. I saw Amazon sell the fresh meat of guinea fowl.

Its habitat is African savanna.They find food at savanna. Their diet in savanna such as grass, fruit, seed, insect, and more. It lives in a big group.

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It is only 700 to 1600 g weight and 40 to 71 cm tall. It is black with white spot color. The plumage is very thick.After domesticated, there are other various color like white (albino), royal purple, violet, brown, lavender, and half albino. It is because the new environment affect their genetics. The bird has beautiful feather so it is good for ornamental bird too.

The head is small relative with its body. It has a red small triangular comb. It has two red wattled below the beak. There is no feather in the fowl head so the bird looks bald. The head is white color.

Its body is slender. It is difficult to sex the bird. We are hard to recognize the subtle differences between the cock and the hen or sexing. Some people said that the cock's comb is red blood color. The cock has loud sound. It can warn others guinea fowl. Some farmer use the bird to expel any animal that eat the vegetable farm. The bird is like watch dog or goose.

The hen can produce much eggs. It can lay 60 eggs in a clutch. The egg is light brown color and same with domesticated chicken. Some hen is bad layer that lay everywhere and does not care about the eggs. Some hen lay infertile eggs so we cannot hatch the eggs.

If you want care this bird, you can care at your backyard. They can live at limited spaces. You need a pair of guinea fowl. Feed them with poultry food.

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http://www.backyardpen.com/2011/02/maleo-bird-endemic-celebes-bird-that.htmlGuinea fowl is a domesticated fowl from Africa Sahara that is very beautiful. They have black and white spot feather. In Africa, Farmer raises this bird intensively. It produces more eggs than chicken.
Some people are confused with the bird sex. All fowl look same. We are difficult to determine whether the bird male or female.
My aunt, a guinea fowl breeder, said that the male has larger horn than the female. We can see the horn at the top of the fowl. The male usually is larger than the female. Perhaps, you have idea about the guinea fowl sex. Please share your experience and knowledge here.
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Vulturine Guinea fowl (Acryllium Vulturinum)

The bird is horrible performance. It is supported with its red iris eye and the sharp bill. I thought this bird was predator, considering the sharp beak which is strong. The head is featherless like vulture bird. It is 61-71 cm tall and is 1.5 kg weight. It is the biggest guinea fowl. It is white spot black color.It has wonderful blue cobalt color feather in breast.
Unlike helmet guinea fowl, the vulture has not comb. It lives at African savanna. The origin of this bird is Eastern Africa. The vulture guinea fowl find food at savanna. In the night, they sleep at high tree to avoid the predator. Their diet is grain, seed, small insect, and others.It uses the sharp claw to find root, small insect, small reptile, rodent, at the land. It also eat fruit. People use to give chicken food to this bird.

Like helmet Guinea fowl, this fowl is prolific to. It can lay up to 20 eggs in a clutch. The egg color is creamy white. Sometimes two hens lay at one clutch. I think the bad mother board out to hatch her eggs. The hen will hatch the eggs for 28 days same like goose. The hen broody the chick.

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