Guinea fowl - animals for agricultural purposes.If you compare it with other poultry, it has a number of features.This kind of adapts well to different climatic conditions.It is very resistant to various kinds of infections and diseases.Guinea fowl at home picky, feeding too much difficulty does not deliver.
This bird is able to eat in the day, several hundred insects.Do not neglect it, and the Colorado potato beetle.Therefore it can be safely used on his summer cottage as a biological weapon in the fight against this type of pest.Guinea fowl in the home, as well as once in natural, is a gregarious bird.Due to this they are easy to distill from one area to another, for example, after the harvest.
the breed is not only painting of guinea fowl.It was found that guinea fowl gray have higher weight (7%), compared with bluish individuals.Egg weight have more to 3%.But fertility in birds, with a bluish color of the plumage above 14%.White guinea fowl in the home is able to carry a greater number of eggs than its cousins of a different color, but the weight of the carcass are lower.Preferably goes gray guinea fowl breeding its most profitable.The growth rate of nestlings significantly outperforming white and blue rock.
However, these birds are not so common in our country.Although guinea fowl are able to increase the weight of two kilograms, the meat is very tender and not at all greasy, tastes like game.Breeding guinea fowl is better to start with a rock or pearl blue color feathers.
Males can weigh up to six kilos.Females are slightly larger and reach two kg.In the year of the birds carry up to 150 eggs.The weight of each varies from 40 to 46 grams.Egg brown, sometimes mottled.The shape is somewhat reminiscent of a pear.The presence of a small number of pores in the shell provides storage for up to 90 days at temperatures up to 18 degrees.Guinea fowl in the home begins laying eggs in April and carried to and including October.Daily egg laying occurs in the warmer months.
Guinea fowl at home prefer to lay eggs in a large nest on the ground near the fence in the field, in the tall grass.When the female lays her eggs, the male guards the next, quietly chirping.
Generally, these birds are very talkative.They make sounds like creaking.If they are worried, crying so hard that there is ringing in the ears.Guinea fowl can fly, but somehow lazy.Males can be strong enough aggressiveness.
guinea fowl should be issued to the street only at a temperature not lower than minus five.With the onset of cold weather is necessary to translate it in a pre-insulated house.
Typically, omnivorous and unpretentious, in the summer, these birds are able to provide themselves with food: they have enough insects, only in the evening, they can nibble out of the trough.In winter, the best food will be a mixture of boiled root vegetables to feed.It is recommended to be added to food vitamin premixes.Also birds like whole grains, cabbage, beets.The water should always be fresh and clean.
