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GUINEAFOWL PAST AND PRESENT
BY
MICHAEL ROBERTS

This is a guide to keeping guineafowl on a small scale or commercially.

Contents of the book are as follows:-

History of guineafowl
Names of guineafowl
Origins and types of guineafowl
Letter from Zimbabwe
Keeping crested and vulturine guineafowl
Keeping guineafowl on a small scale
Housing, breeding and artificial insemination
Eggs, incubation, hatching, colour breeding and pinioning
Sexing
Commercial rearing, intensive and free-range, capons
Catching, killing, plucking, evisceration, trussing
Packing and labelling
Marketing
Health, diseases and ailments

This is a smashing little book
dedicated to guineafowl.

It has a lovely colour photograph section of all the different mutations of guineafowl.

Also shows many different varieties of guineafowl.

The book has many photos of chicks hatching, being reared and guineafowl in the wild.

This is a must read for anyone thinking of keeping or even people already keeping guineafowl.