On Wed, 14 May 2003 23:57:27 -0500, jammer j@mmer wrote:

On Thu, 15 May 2003 00:44:01 -0400, "Chip G."
wrote:

I'm considering getting guinea fowl for pest control. Does anyone have
any experience with them? Any suggestions?

I have had geese and pigeons. If they are anything like those two,
they are MESSY and will ruin a yard with their excrement.

Several years ago we had a scandiavian neighbor who owned both a pair
of ducks AND geese. Boy what a racket the geese put up (I also ran at
them with the dog when they snuck across the woods into our
property...they really could run fast)...that was long before I
appreciated their ecological benefits such as slug and tick control.

These days Im thinking of getting my *own* pair of ducks, but the new
neighbor (in the same house as the old ones ) is of the same
mentality I was She's not too keen on having ducks waddle through;
the tables have turned.

Dan