Tag Archives: Guinea

How to Bathe Your Guinea Pig

Unlike most of the creatures in the rodent family, guinea pigs do not wash themselves. It’s not that they enjoy being dirty, the design of their body restricts their flexibility, therefore limiting their cleaning habits. Grooming your guinea pig is important, and as a responsible owner, you will have to bathe your guinea pig, like […]

Guinea Fowl: The Natural Insect Exterminators

Guinea fowl are wild, native birds originally from Africa. There are Crested Guinea Fowl, Guinea Vulture Vola, and Helmeted Guinea Vola. The helmeted flying guinea will be the focus of this article, and will henceforth be referred to simply as flying guinea. Adult guinea fowls weigh about 3 pounds or so and can be as […]

Guinea Fowl: Great Birds to Keep

Guinea fowl, originally native to Africa, are rapidly increasing in popularity around the world. Nowhere is the guinea fowl considered to be growing more rapidly than in the United States of America. I am not surprised at all. A guinea fowl’s diet consists mainly of bugs, and one of its favorites is the ubiquitous, sometimes […]

The Guinea Fowl Online Guide

American’s call them Guinea fowl, the French call them Pintade and the Italians call them Faraone. They originally came from the coast of Western Africa. Guinea fowl have been documented in Egyptian history as far back as 2400 BC. Today, Guinea fowl are kept as pets, or as free-ranging, insect eating, egg producing livestock. Guinea […]

The 4 Main Guinea Pig Types

The four main types of guinea pigs or guinea pigs are used for food, guinea pigs are used in research, guinea pigs are used for display and guinea pigs are kept for care. Although within each of these species there are myriads of variations in color, size and length of hair, these are the main […]