I was doing some research on exotics and wanted to know what others would suggest as good species to start out with for exotic hoofstock one day. I'm looking for a species that I can keep about 3-10 of total (including offspring) and graze them on at most 5-6 acreage with supplemental feed. From...
I was researching South African birds and discovered the awesome-looking Southern Crested Guineafowl (Guttera edouardi). I know that Helmeted and Vulturine are more seen on farms and in aviculture, and Eastern Crested (Guttera pucherani) are rarer but are often seen in AZA facilities, but are...
I have been wondering lately how breeding birds works in zoos if they are kept in enclosures with hoofstock. Species like cranes, storks, guineafowl, vultures, rheas, egrets, and pelicans are often managed in savannas replicas and with breeding reccomendations, but how are they prevented from...
Here I have attempted to make a complete list of guineafowl and New World quail present in American and Canadian collections. Only information 2018 or newer was used. I have excluded the domestic form of the Helmeted Guineafowl. Information on missing holders or species, as well as information...
Rock hyraxes and guineafowl in a walkthrough aviary.
That day was very insufferable, as dumbass zoo visitors kept the two doors to the aviary open at once! And they're excuse for being uneducated idiots is "Oh, we're village people!".
And don't even get me started on the aardvark...