Poultry

Guinea fowl originated in southern Africa, and the species most often kept as poultry is the helmeted guineafowl (Numida meleagris). It is a medium-sized grey or speckled bird with a small naked head with colourful wattles and a knob on top, and was domesticated by the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Guinea fowl are hardy, sociable birds that subsist mainly on insects, but also consume grasses and seeds. They will keep a vegetable garden clear of pests and will eat the ticks that carry Lyme disease. They happily roost in trees and give a loud vocal warning of the approach of predators. Their flesh and eggs can be eaten in the same way as chickens, young birds being ready for the table at the age of about four months.

Question: What of a guinea fowl is edible?
Answer: Their flesh and eggs

Question: How might other animals benefit from the presence of guinea fowl?
Answer: They happily roost in trees and give a loud vocal warning of the approach of predators

Question: When can you eat a guinea fowl?
Answer: ready for the table at the age of about four months

Question: Where were Guinea Fowl initially domesticated?
Answer: ancient Greeks and Romans

Question: What can be done with Guinea fowl offspring?
Answer: eaten

Question: Where would you want to keep guinea fowl?
Answer: a vegetable garden

Question: What task do Guinea Fowl perform for humans?
Answer: keep a vegetable garden clear of pests and will eat the ticks

Question: Where do guinea fowl like to stay?
Answer: in trees

Question: How do guineafowl help protect humans and livestock?
Answer: a loud vocal warning of the approach of predators

Question: How large is a helmeted guineafowl?
Answer: medium-sized

Question: Why do people usually keep Guinea fowl?
Answer: eaten

Question: What is the most common food that guinea fowl eat?
Answer: insects

Question: How can keeping a guinea fowl as a pet benefit the health of humans?
Answer: eat the ticks that carry Lyme disease

Question: How do guinea fowl keep Lyme disease away?
Answer: eat the ticks

Question: A prepared Guinea fowl on the dinner table is likely to be what specific variety?
Answer: helmeted guineafowl

Question: What do Guinea fowl do when they are scared?
Answer: loud vocal warning

Question: What pattern will you find on a helmeted guineafowl?
Answer: speckled

Question: How weak or strong are guinea fowl?
Answer: Guinea fowl are hardy

Question: Guinea fowls love to hang out with their own kind because of what quality?
Answer: sociable

Question: What are Guinea fowl known to do if a hungry wolf shows up?
Answer: give a loud vocal warning

Question: How are guines fowl described in looks?
Answer: medium-sized grey or speckled bird with a small naked head with colourful wattles and a knob on top

Question: Why are guinea fowl easy to care for?
Answer: Guinea fowl are hardy, sociable birds that subsist mainly on insects, but also consume grasses and seeds

Question: Of all the things going into the Guinea fowl's belly, which is the biggest relief to humans?
Answer: ticks that carry Lyme disease

Question: When is it okay to eat guinea fowl?
Answer: four months

Question: What is the method used by Guinea fowl to keep each other out of danger?
Answer: They happily roost in trees and give a loud vocal warning of the approach of predators

Question: Which part of the guinea fowl might you consume?
Answer: Their flesh and eggs

Question: A Guinea fowl's belly is often full of what, in terms of its plant-based food choices?
Answer: grasses and seeds