How to Use guinea fowl in a Sentence

guinea fowl

noun
  • Since then, the farm has been home to dozens of goats, cows, guinea fowl and chickens.
    — Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Later, in what felt like the middle of the night, some guinea fowl cackled.
    — Jeffrey Gettleman, Travel + Leisure, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The garden has a busy poultry house filled with clucking guinea fowl and laying hens.
    — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Like guinea fowls spotting a predator, the pair protect each other.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2024
  • Next—a supreme of pintade (guinea fowl) with black truffles from the Perigord.
    — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Backyard poultry include birds such as chicken, ducks, geese, guinea fowl and turkeys.
    — Jonel Aleccia, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Backyard poultry include birds like chicken, ducks, geese, guinea fowl and turkeys.
    — Jonel Aleccia, Chicago Tribune, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Forty vultures landed one by one on the water’s edge, scaring off families of warthogs and guinea fowl.
    — charlotteobserver, 27 Oct. 2017
  • To add to the madcapness, the capitaine will release a chicken or guinea fowl for a game of catch-and-release.
    — Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2020
  • Entrees include multiple game dishes like guinea fowl, venison and squab.
    — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Meanwhile any pasta—including a guinea fowl bottoni—can have white truffle added upon request.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2024
  • After all, Mou found that the necks of embryonic ducks, turkeys, quails and guinea fowl all have much higher levels of retinoic acid than the rest of the body.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 15 Mar. 2011
  • Ratatouille, veal blanquette, guinea fowl wrapped in cabbage, boeuf bourguignon and fondue weren’t fancy company cooking.
    — Jamie Schler, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Instead of being brought to The Gentle Barn or being part of a rescue effort, the guinea fowl just appeared.
    — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 21 Apr. 2023
  • McKean says that the name is thought to have come from the guinea fowl being brought by traders into Europe through the Turkish region.
    — Natalie Escobar, NPR, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Madison Carson has broken 124 turkey, chicken and guinea fowl legs in her parents’ garage in the name of science.
    — oregonlive, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Or was suddenly on an empty Hollywood movie set — still and quiet, except for the sounds of wandering chickens and guinea fowl.
    — Edward M. Eveld, Kansas City Star, 25 Jan. 2024
  • These guinea fowls were born from Heidi’s childhood memories of real hens wandering about the garden in her family’s home.
    — Elizabeth Pash, House Beautiful, 26 July 2019
  • Avian influenza most commonly infects chickens, turkeys, pheasants, quail, ducks, geese and guinea fowl, and is often spread by wild ducks, geese and shorebirds.
    — Stefene Russell, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Also not really Olympics related, but Bela cares for camels, peacocks, chickens, horses, and guinea fowl on his ranch.
    — Laura Beck, Cosmopolitan, 9 Aug. 2016
  • Seaside Nature Park is home to wandering peacocks, ducks, chickens, pigs, iguanas, guinea fowls, and horses.
    — Megan Margulies, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2026
  • Bird flu is carried by free-flying waterfowl, such as ducks, geese and shorebirds, and infects chickens, turkeys, pheasants, quail, domestic ducks, geese and guinea fowl.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Recent menus included lunches of free-range guinea fowl with corn polenta and marinated carrots and dinners of lobster vol-au-vent with white pudding and spinach.
    — Marianna Cerini, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Puffins have been observed using tools, and vulturine guinea fowls in Kenya have been found to display complex social behavior more typically found in mammals.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 9 Jan. 2020
  • Snippets of conversation sometimes get drowned out by an orchestra of farm animals — bleating goats, chattering guinea fowl and braying donkeys.
    — Alex Traub, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2022
  • The bill, which went into effect in recent years, in part banned confinement of egg-laying hens (chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, and guinea fowl) in certain areas with less than 1 square foot of usable floor space per hen.
    — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2025
  • The best rooms look out over the sea and the rugged peaks of Cavall Bernat—a view shared by the rooftop restaurant, where local meats star in dishes like suckling porc negre and pastry stuffed with guinea fowl in almond sauce.
    — Benjamin Kemper, Saveur, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The farm is home to goats, Holstein cows, potbellied and kune kune pigs, donkeys, sheep, rabbits, llamas, alpacas, guinea fowl, guinea pigs, geese, chickens, a Shetland pony, and a Shire horse.
    — Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The company was founded in 1966 by a pair of duck-breeding brothers and their wives who grew the business by maintaining the genetics for niche kinds of meat, such as ducks, rabbits, guinea fowl and pigeons.
    — Chloe Sorvino, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
  • The beautiful, modern winery has an extensive outdoor patio overlooking the vineyard and natural farm, manned by two hard-working Great Pyrenees dogs who keep the deer away and by a flock of guinea fowl who gobble up the bugs.
    — Emily Spicer, San Antonio Express-News, 4 June 2018

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