Guinea Fowl Birds That Look Like Turkeys The body plumage is gray black spangled with white.

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Guinea fowl birds that look like turkeys. Some people believe that guinea fowl were raised as far back as ancient greek times. That is what many people ask when they first pull into a homestead to see these birds shuffling around. Comments for bird that looks like a turkey. Guinea fowl have long been considered a prized game bird right up there with pheasants and quail.

White head with grey body that has black polka dot looking designs on it. Once imported europeans came to call the guinea fowl the turkey cock or turkey hen because the bird came from the turks. When settlers in the new world began to send similar looking fowl back to europe they out of familiarity called them turkeys. They weigh about 1 3 kilograms 2 9 lb.

Their meat is darker than chicken leaner than chicken rich with. Bird that looks like a turkey. Is that a turkey. El diablo confirmed as stated by anonymus.

Understandably the egyptians considered the guinea fowl a luxury food for the wealthy. We took the plunge into guinea fowl about a year ago and boy was it an eye opening experience. Don t get me wrong i have grown to love our guineas very much but it has taken some serious getting used to. Click here to add your own comments.

Sometimes called pet speckled hens or original fowl are birds of the family numididae in the order galliformes they are endemic to africa and rank among the oldest of the gallinaceous birds.