In daily life, guinea fowl is not very different from its mother in terms of appearance, so it is difficult to distinguish between male and female in terms of appearance. The individual size of guinea fowl is moderate, neither as big as hares, which need to be sold separately, nor as small as quails. It is not only suitable for ordinary people to take for a meal, but also high-end meat food on the banquet. In fact, the male and female guinea fowls can be identified by five ways: looking at the white spots on the back feathers, hair ornaments and meat beards, turning the anus and mouth, looking at the walking posture and identifying the sound.
 How to divide guinea fowl into male and female
 1. Look at the small white spots on the back feather: the small milky white circles on the back feather of the female guinea fowl are small and light, while the male guinea fowl is on the contrary. The small circles on the neck back feather are large and significant, which can be found by paying more attention to observation.
 2. Look at the hair ornaments and beards: the male guinea fowl's hair ornaments and beards are very large, the beards are slightly bent inward, and the head is thick; The female guinea fowl has smaller hair ornaments and beards. The beards sweep back vertically towards the neck, and the head is also smaller. Male guinea fowls aged 12-15 weeks have thicker beards than female guinea fowls.
 3. The method of turning the anus and mouth: This is the most accurate way to identify the male and female of pearl chicken. Some people who are experienced in breeding work know that this method is also a common way to identify.
 4. Look at the walking posture: the difference between male and female guinea fowl's walking posture depends on that the male guinea fowl mainly walks in the forward step, while the Mu guinea fowl walks in the skirting or crossing style. One way walk.
 5. Sound discrimination: The sound of "Ga! Ga!" from the perfect female guinea fowl is gentle and calm; The male guinea fowl heard the sound of "quack quack...", which was short and impassioned, with sharp squeaks. When all the chickens are too excited or frightened, the male and female guinea fowls both send out a tone of call. In any case, the male guinea fowl can't make the sound of "each quack, each quack".
 How to raise guinea fowl
 1 Life habits of guinea fowl
 1.1 Strong adaptability The guinea fowl is trained by wild birds and has strong adaptability to the external natural environment. It has strong cold and high temperature resistance. The adult guinea fowl can grow normally at - 20~40 ℃, and is suitable for feeding in the hot summer season in southern China.
 1.2 The gregarious guinea fowl usually has 30 to 50 birds in a crowd. When it is frightened, it also flees and hides in groups. It will never be independent of discrete variables. If it is independent from the group, it often shows psychological distortion.
 2. Detailed feeding address selection and enclosure infrastructure
 Site selection The selection of breeding sites for guinea fowl should be beneficial to epidemic prevention, with a distance of more than 1km from the traffic trunk road and the village community downtown, and the surrounding 3km should be free of industrial production "three wastes" environmental pollution or other pollutants such as livestock farms. If feeding on barren hills and hillsides, choose Chunyang area with high and dry terrain, good natural ventilation and hilly terrain, which can not only meet the core wind frequency in summer, but also avoid the erosion of strong wind in winter. The selected road surface should be sandy soil layer, which can keep the site dry, with low heat transfer, and is easy to heat insulation and heat removal. It is not easy for bacteria, sparganum and mosquitoes to breed and reduce the production of organic compounds. In addition, the farm needs abundant, clean, zero pollution water resources and reliable switching power supply.
 3 Nutritional composition regulations
 Although the growth and development rate of guinea fowl is not as fast as that of broiler chicks, the kinetic energy and protein requirements of the Soviet Union's northeast grain are higher than that of broiler chicks, and the demand for sulfur amino acids is more prominent. Therefore, it is necessary to present a full price concentrate feed with high nutrient content and high cost performance according to the different development process of guinea fowl. Anti coccidiosis drugs should be added to the diet, and protective antibiotics should be added regularly. If the standard is limited, farmers can also use relatively fast large and medium-sized meat chicken concentrate feed.
 4 Key points of feeding management method
 4.1 Temperature is the primary condition for the success and failure of feeding guinea fowl. The newly hatched guinea fowl has a rest weight of 26~35g, thin body hair, and is afraid of cold compared with other broilers. It is very sensitive to external temperature, and is prone to coldness. Therefore, the temperature of chicks is about 2 ℃ higher than that of ordinary chickens, that is, the first week of age should be controlled at 36~38 ℃, and then it should be reduced by 2 ℃ every week until it is connected to normal temperature. If the temperature is appropriate, we should observe the dynamics of chicken flocks and distinguish them.
 4.2 Environmental humidity The guinea fowl likes to be dry and irritable rather than wet and cold. If the environmental humidity is too high, the bedding material is easy to grow mold, breed pathogenic bacteria, cause excessive hydrogen chloride and nitrogen dioxide, and lead to heat loss in the livestock house, causing gastrointestinal diseases. If the ambient humidity is too low, the road surface is dry and dusty, and the gas is polluted, it is easy to cause respiratory diseases. Generally, the air humidity is 65%~70% higher in the early stage, and 55%~60% lower in the middle and late stage.
 4.3 Natural ventilation The purpose of natural ventilation is to remove harmful substances from the livestock house and replace it with fresh air. On the premise of ensuring suitable temperature, the ventilation volume shall be increased as much as possible during the chickling period, but the erosion of ventilation and thief wind shall be avoided to prevent excessive temperature fluctuation in the barn due to natural ventilation.
 4.4 The relative density guinea fowl is sensitive and scary by nature, and it is appropriate to have no more than 500 birds in each group. The total number is large, and the fence is used for protection and grouping. The relative feeding density of the total area of the enterprise should be adjusted immediately with the growth and development of guinea fowl: 30~40 feathers/square meter in the first week; In the second week, 20~30 feathers/m2; In the third week, 15-20 feather/m2; 10~12 feathers/m2 in the fourth week; After the fifth week, maintain 8~10 feathers/square meter.