The Giant African Land Snail. The Nigerian Dwarf Goat. If you've been following along here, you know that these two mini-livestock species have enormous potential to help Africans transform their backyard market gardens into livelihoods. Now Emeka adds another species to the African small farm all-star team -- the Guinea Fowl, which "thrives under semi-intensive conditions, forages well, and requires little attention. It retains many of its wild ancestor's survival characteristics: it grows, reproduces, and yields well in both cool and hot conditions; it is relatively disease-free; it requires little water or attention; it is almost as easily raised as chickens and turkeys; and it is a most useful all-round farm bird..."