Marvellous Guinea Fowl

Guinea Fowl (Numida meleagris) are a quirky and one of a kind bird. Not suited to every home - mostly on account of their noise and their roaming habits - if you are lucky enough to have a flock of guinea fowl in your life - you will be much richer for their most amusing habits.
The order of birds known as Galliformes is one of the oldest on our planet and they have a rich history interwoven with our own human one.  Within the Galliforme family are chickens, pheasants and turkeys and nearly every continent on our planet have a native Galliforme member - one exception being Australia. The Australian continent has no indigenous species of these birds and as such the common African guinea fowl became a popular food source in early human settlement.
Birdman Dad keeps a flock of guinea fowl to assist in the management of insects.  In years past there has been large numbers of locusts that required some re-balancing and more recently ticks have been the target insect.  Admittedly the mornings start early when you have guinea fowl as they come up on the grass to nibble their early morning greens.  If you can tolerate the guinea fowl commotion and want to keep some keen insect micro-managers, the guinea fowl may be the bird for you!