Lavender guinea fowl are a variety of guinea fowl, a prized game bird that has since found its place on domestic farms for its “watchdog” qualities and pest control habits. The lavender variety is a unique blue guinea fowl that’s raised for meat and pet purposes.
Guinea fowl are low-maintenance birds and useful additions to a farm for protecting animals from predators and controlling populations of nuisance insects and parasites like ticks.
Appearance and Varieties
The lavender guinea fowl is unique in its stunning icy gray chook with bluish coloring, lending its name. Other than coloration, the lavender guinea fowl looks like other guinea fowl, with naked heads, a round body, a feathered crest, and voluminous body feathers. It’s typically about two feet tall. Due to their unique coloration, lavender guinea fowl are preferred as pet birds