Numida meleagris domesticus

The domesticated guinea fowl has been used for thousands of years, being used by the Egyptians in 1475 BChttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McS2XpjS6v4, with the Greeks in the 5th BC, and the Romans also having them. This means that it has been domesticated for thousands of years, despite being portrayed as an exotic animal to raise in our culture and despite the seemingly lack of breeds. At some point it seems that they were grown mostly in Africa and India and then imported to Europe through the country of Turkey, as that animal receives its name from one version of this creature's name. Domesticated guineafowls may be referred to by more "English" names like the pearl henhttps://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=helmikana&oldid=69274327, pintadehttps://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=pintade&oldid=65553214, or gleany.https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Domestic_guineafowl&oldid=1042208170 I can't find other online sources for those names, but I can't discount the possibility of animal magazines having used them, because I know what they do.
This animal is known for its voracity towards insects and has been advertised as both an alternative and to be used alongside of them as they eat more insects then them (especially tickshttps://thehipchick.com/why-guinea-fowl-love-ticks-and-other-bugs-they-eat/) and are quite careful about hawks, making them a sort of guard hen or cock. They are also seen as annoying, at least in modern timeshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVntLgjCkuA. They can cross breed with both chickens and peafowl, resulting in guineahens and peaguineashttps://www.heritageacresmarket.com/guinea-fowl/. Domesticated Guineafowl come in a variety of colorshttps://afs.ca.uky.edu/poultry/breed-selection-guinea-fowl and have a complicated process of color genetics, and like orange tabby cats, some colors are more likely to occur in one sex than the other, but in females instead of males.https://guineas.com/articles/genetics I cannot tell if there are any established breeds of guineafowls as when I look them up, I only get other guineafowl species, some of which are not used for farming.
== References ==
Category:Guineafowls
Category:Domesticated animals
Category:Helmeted Guineafowls
Category:Numida meleagris subspecies