Product Description
Gardening with Guineas is a delightful and informative guide to raising guinea fowl. It covers the life of a guinea from egg throughout adult, including incubation, feeding, housing, training and common problems. In Gardening with Guineas you will learn: Reasons for raising guinea fowl, what you need to know before you buy, working with newborns and young keets, handling typical problems, and much, much more. This book is easy to follow and will surely benefit anyon… More >>
Gardening with Guineas: A Step-By-Step Guide to Raising Guinea Fowl on a Small Scale
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As a poultry farm and hatchery owner, I suggest this book for anyone interested in rasing the wonderful guinea fowl. Ms. Ferguson has created a wonderful guide to hatching, raising, problem-solving, and living with guineas on a small scale. It is truly a must read. I have read nearly all published works on the guinea fowl and find this one to be very informative yet lively and easy to understand.
Rating: 5 / 5
Whatever a person’s reason for keeping guinea fowl, this is a ‘must have’ book to be read and kept close at hand during one’s guinea venture. I find myself going back to it again and again. It is both readable and extensive in its content, and the only contemporary book that presents a clear and concise method for successfully raising this unique and fascinating bird.
Rating: 5 / 5
I have just become aquainted with a guinea fowl. He flew over the fence and decided to live with us. As we have been adopted by this beautiful bird of immense character I needed to do research, and this little book proved to be a fountain of knowledge, a gem and a must for every guinea fowl owner.
Gardening with Guineas is a wonderful book. It takes you on a journey giving clear simple information about the bird. The guineas life from the egg through to adulthood is thoroughly explained . The options owners have and the care guineas require is thoroughly explained. The problems owners can face and the solutions are all fully discussed. The amusing entertaining character of this special bird beautifully unfolds and when you reach the end of this book ignorance is replaced by enlightnement and understanding.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book is an wonderful source of information for all there is to know about raising and caring for guinea fowl. The book covers everything imaginable, including common problems and proper housing. Gardening with Guineas is well organized and includes many helpful illustrations. It even has a poem about guineas!
Rating: 5 / 5
Gardening with Guineas by Jeaneette S. Ferguson
I purchased this book for the simple reason, that there just aren’t any other books out there dedicated to hatching, brooding, raising and managing guinea fowl.
If you’re a back yard poultry enthusiast and are considering adding Guineas to your flock, or have some curiosity as to what is involved in keeping these semi-wild birds, then this is a pretty good resource for you.
If you’re the sort of poultry person, who needs an exhaustive reference and would like to delve into the natural history of the guinea fowl, then this is not the book for you.
Throughout this small book, you will find several interesting black and white photographs, accompanied by some very basic illustrations that a beginner would certainly appreciate.
Roughly 25 pages of the book are questions and answers from the author’s website, where members are invited to post questions and receive answers from other members or the author. Quite a chunk, considering the entire book is only 131 pages.
There is a section regarding guinea recipes, as these birds are desired as gormet fare. However, there are no detailed guidelines regarding the slaughter, dressing out and safe keeping of guinea remains destined for a culinary end.
Overall, I did like the book, filled with simple, direct, grass roots advise for the beginner. I recommend it as a good read, prior to buying in any guinea keets (baby guineas).
To fill in the gaps, you may want to also own a good book regarding the raising of chickens. As the book aptly points out, guineas are NOT chickens and have special dietary and housing considerations for the small flock tender.
Rating: 4 / 5