What has four wings, pretty blue eyes and walks with a swagger? No, it’s not a joke – it’s a real bird and it’s called a guin. The strange-looking fowl is a hybrid of a chicken and a guinea fowl. The ...

Learn some tips about introducing new chickens, or even new bird species, such as guinea fowl, into your existing backyard poultry flock. One of the biggest appeals for me about moving to our historic ...

Spring is a good time for the amateur chicken owner. Rather than the annoying digital noise of an alarm, it is now cockerels ...

For poultry keepers looking beyond the chicken, raising guinea fowl is a more exotic alternative with definite meat-producing possibilities. The guinea is an option for those seeking an exotic poultry ...

A chicken and a guinea fowl, with the tiny 'guin' between them Credit: Photo: SWNS The extremely rare chicken-guinea fowl hybrid, which is called a guin, was born on Lyn Newman's smallholding. The 59 ...

Guinea fowl are hardly new to the British countryside, but production on a commercial scale is, as Philip Clarke discovers With five kilometres of high-wire fencing, wide open paddocks and primeval ...