Guinea fowl has a small head and a body length of 50 cm. The front end of the beak is light yellow and the rear part is red. There are red beards on the left and right sides below. The face is light blue-purple. There is no hair around the eyes. The neck is slender. The whole body has feathers. It is blue-brown with dense white spots. Male and female guinea fowl have the same feathers. Generally, male individuals are slightly larger than females, with taller legs, male combs are higher, and male beards are slightly larger. Males approaching sexual maturity have short and passionate cries. Guinea fowl and Guinea fowl are two completely different animals. The guinea fowl looks like a female peacock, with a small head, a pale bluish-purple face, a strong and pointed beak, a light yellow tip, and a red rear part. There are heart-shaped wattles on the left and right sides of the back and lower part of the beak. There is no hair around the eyes, and there is a circle of white markings extending to the upper part of the neck. The neck is slender and covered with a ring of purple-blue needle-like feathers. The legs are short, red when young, and turn gray-black in adulthood. Walk quickly. Guinea fowl has gray feathers with regular round white spots, shaped like pearls, so it is known as "guinea fowl".
Guinea fowl has a round and short body, no comb, and no hair on the top of its head, but has horny protrusions called helmets. The tail feathers are hard and slightly drooping. Wild but timid, the guinea fowl still retains the characteristics of wild birds. It likes to climb high and perch, and its activities can also be seen at night. Especially in chicks, is more active and often crawls around causing death. Sufficient attention should be paid to this habit during feeding. Guinea fowl have a gentle, timid and alert temperament. Any abnormality or movement in the environment can cause the whole flock to panic. The hen will make a shrill cry, and a chain reaction will occur in the flock, with the cries coming and going. If the red drinking fountain is replaced with a yellow drinking fountain, the chickens will not dare to approach the drinking fountain for a longer period of time. It has a wide food habit and is resistant to rough feeding. Cereals, bran, cakes, fish bone meal, grasses, vegetables, fruits, etc. can be used for consumption. Flying Ability: Good at flying, loves climbing, and active. Guinea fowl has well-developed wings and is capable of leaping at one day old. Able to move almost constantly throughout the day. It likes to climb to high places to perch when resting or at night. They like sand baths and love to chirp. Guinea fowls live freely on the ground and often dig pits on the ground to provide themselves with sand bathing conditions. During the sand bath, spread the sand evenly between the feathers and the skin. The rhythmic and coherent piercing call of the guinea fowl is actually a major feature. This sound greatly disturbs people's rest, but it also has several functions. First, the strong and sudden sound at night acts as an alarm. Second, once this kind of singing decreases, or once the sound intensity weakens, it may be a sign of disease.
Mate-choosing guinea fowl are selective towards the opposite sex, which is one of the reasons for the low fertilization rate of chickens during natural mating. Of course, being easily frightened is also the main reason for the low fertilization rate of large flocks of guinea fowl. However, the use of artificial insemination can fundamentally solve the problem of low fertilization rate. As a special meat poultry, guinea fowl has high economic value: ① Guinea fowl is tender, nutritious and delicious. Compared with ordinary broiler chickens, it has high protein and amino acid content, but low fat and cholesterol content. It is a special bird with game flavor. ②The slaughtering rate is high and the edible parts are large. Guinea fowl has slender bones, a small head and neck, well-developed chest and leg muscles, and an approximately oval body. Guinea fowl with a live weight of 1,700 grams has a carcass weight of 1,544 grams, accounting for 91% of the live weight, and a semi-eviscerated body of 1,415 grams, accounting for 83% of the live weight. It can be seen that its slaughtering rate and meat yield are both high. ③ All production performances of guinea fowl are high. Breeding hens start laying at the age of 28 weeks, and can lay about 160 eggs in one laying period, providing about 110 chicks. Each breeder hen consumes about 40 to 44 kilograms of food throughout the egg laying process. The slaughtering time of commercial broiler guinea fowl is 12 to 13 weeks of age, the live weight can reach 1300 to 1500 grams, and the meat to material ratio is 1:2.7 to 2.9. ④ Guinea fowl has good adaptability, strong disease resistance, simple requirements for equipment and housing, is resistant to rough feeding, and is easy to raise. Therefore, the guinea fowl breeding industry requires less investment, fast turnover, and high efficiency. In addition, the individual size of guinea fowl is moderate. It is neither so big as turkey that needs to be divided and sold, nor is it as small as quail. It is not only suitable for an ordinary family meal, but also a high-end meat poultry for banquets.
In the era of " Internet + ", Wenshan Guinea Fowl Platform came into being. The platform owner, Mr. Yang Linghong, is also far-sighted.Contacted Ningbo Yunyue Co-creation, and used Ningbo Yunyue Co-creation’s technology, promotion operation resources and financial channels to create a Wenshan guinea fowl platform that combines online and offline services to meet market demand, effectively disseminate industry development concepts, and become a regional enterprise. Influence, a well-known professional platform in China, realizes a good situation of mutual development and joint promotion of digital technology and industry.
