Guinea Fowl facts

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Nearly 200 years before turducken became popular, there was the Rôti Sans Pareil: a bustard stuffed with a turkey-goose-pheasant-chicken-duck-guinea fowl-teal-woodcock-partridge-plover-lapwing-quail-thrush-lark-ortolan-bunting and garden warbler, the last being just big enough to hold an olive.

how guinea fowl got her spots?

A parisian gastronomist invented the "rôti sans pareil", a warbler, stuffed inside a bunting, inside a lark, inside a thrush, inside a quail...lapwing, plover, partridge, woodcock, teal, guinea fowl, duck, chicken, pheasant, goose, turkey, bustard. A 17-bird stuffed meal.

What guinea fowl eat?

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what's guinea fowl?

1. Mating season of guinea fowls takes place at the end of the rainy season.

2. Guinea fowls are social animals that live and roost in smaller or larger flocks. They walk in a single line and imitate behavior of the leader of the group.

3. Guinea fowl is strong flyer, but it prefers to run when it needs to escape from predators.

4. Nǃxau ǂToma the hilarious bushman in "The Gods Must Be Crazy" South African 80's flick, did not become rich with his five movies and returned to Namibia to farm and raise cattle. He died of multiple drug resistant tuberculosis in 2003 while hunting guinea-fowl.

5. Young guinea fowls reach sexual maturity at the age of 2 years. Females produce large number of eggs due to numerous predators of nest (such as cats, dogs and mongooses). Only 50% of eggs manage to 'survive" incubation period.

6. Guinea fowl eats different types of worms, insects, reptiles, spiders, berries, seed, tubers, roots and grains. It can survive prolonged period of time without water.

7. Guinea fowl can survive 10 to 20 years in the wild.

8. Guinea fowl has bare head and neck while the rest of the body is covered with dark grey or black feathers with small white dots.

9. Guinea fowls are monogamous birds. Formed couples can last for a lifetime or per mating season.

10. Guinea fowl often walks behind herds of large animals and monkeys and collects food they left behind. It plays important role in the control of ticks, flies and scorpions in the wild.

Why do guinea fowl make noise?

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Guinea fowl is ground-dwelling bird. It spends most of the time by searching food hidden in the ground.

Natural enemies of guinea fowls are wild cats, wolves, snakes, crocodiles and humans.

A man in Indiana had sex with a rottweiler, a chicken and guinea fowls. A wolf mask was found at his residence. While in jail he paints stripes on himself and calls himself "the master of cats." - source

Guinea fowl can reach 16 to 28 inches in length and 1.5 to 3.5 pounds of weight.

Guinea fowl has short, stout bill, bulky body, short, rounded wings, thick legs with large toes and powerful claws, and short tail.

When guinea fowl lay eggs?

Guinea fowl is active early in the morning and late in the afternoon. It rests during the hottest part of the day and eliminates excess heat via its bare head and neck.

How to cook guinea fowl?

Female lays 8 to 15 eggs that hatch after incubation of 24 to 30 days. Only female takes part in the incubation of eggs, while male guards the nest. Chicks, known as keets, fledge at the age of 4 weeks. Two-months-old guinea fowls are ready to return to the flock with their parents.

The word "turkey" for the N American bird came from his ressemblance to the guinea fowl imported through Turkish territory -- French name for it, "dinde", comes from "Poule d'Inde" (en. Indian hen); the bird brought from Mexico by the conquistadores back when America was thought to be India