About the Book: Guinea Fowl Genetics and Breeding
Guinea fowl, one of the domesticated galliforms birds, is important not only for
economic reasons, but also for academic reasons. The certain unique
characteristics of guinea fowl such as herding instinct, excellent foraging
ability, hard and adaptable to harsh climate and resistance to most of the
common chicken disease makes it an ideal poultry species to be reared under low
input rural poultry farming system. The resistance to common chicken disease in
guinea fowl makes it an ideal model for studying the mechanism of disease
resistance through functional and comparative genomic studies. In present book,
we have tried to give