Reasons For Keeping Guinea Fowl
Why Keep Guinea Fowl?
- The birds can be used to protect the farm because of their loud cry.
- Guinea fowl help to reduce the insect population in vegetable gardens.
- They do not scratch the earth in your garden as much as chickens.
- Guinea fowl have been used in America to reduce the deer tick population associated with Lyme disease.
- Guinea hens are extremely good layers, laying daily from late February to October.
- Meat from young guinea fowl is tender and flavoursome.
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Hi
I want to start guinea fowl rearing. How do I start. Any book?
Comment by Isabella — October 6, 2008 @ 1:19 pm
Hi Isabella,
Thanks for visiting farmingfriends and leaving this comment.
There are a number of ways you can start with guinea fowl.
1) Buy hatching eggs and incubate them or get a broody hen to incubate them.
2) Buy day old keets and raise them.
3) Buy guinea fowl poults from about 6 weeks old and raise them.
4) Buy sexed adult guinea fowl from 12 weeks onwards.
An excellent book is Guinea fowl Past & Present by Michael Roberts, here is my review of the book. http://www.farmingfriends.com/a-book-about-keeping-guinea-fowl/
Another great book is Gardening with Guineas by Jeanette S. Ferguson
I have a category specifically about guinea fowl
http://www.farmingfriends.com/category/guinea-fowl/
and I have a forum which is free to join and members can chat and ask questions about guinea fowl http://farmingfriends.com/forums/forum.php?id=2
If you have any specific questions then let me know.
Kind regards
Sara @ farmingfriends
Comment by Sara @ Farming Friends — October 10, 2008 @ 5:16 pm