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

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

"Chip G." wrote in message
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I'm considering getting guinea fowl for pest control. Does anyone have
any experience with them? Any suggestions?

You won't have any snakes slithering in.....they love snakes!! YUM!

Val

I don't know about pest control, but they make great watchdogs.! They raise
h___ when a stranger comes on your place.
Dave

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In article 1052975375.899596@yasure, Valkyrie
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You won't have any snakes slithering in.....they love snakes!! YUM!

I don't have any trouble with snakes (I've caught and released two
already).

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I don't know about pest control, but they make great watchdogs.! They raise
h___ when a stranger comes on your place.

That can be a down side. I hear they sometimes trouble neighbors with
the racket they produce. What exactly does the alarm sound like?

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In article 1052975375.899596@yasure, Valkyrie
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You won't have any snakes slithering in.....they love snakes!! YUM!

I don't have any trouble with snakes (I've caught and released two
already).


heh...that would be a problem to me! :-)

They love to eat ticks. You can watch a flock feeding in a field of plants,
and see them cleaning up the tick problem. We lived 3 miles out of town and
the only problem we saw, was that they always managed to be on the highway
when cars were driving by. They belonged to our aunt and uncle, but were
always welcome at our place.

Dwayne




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In article , Dave W
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I don't know about pest control, but they make great watchdogs.! They
raise
h___ when a stranger comes on your place.

That can be a down side. I hear they sometimes trouble neighbors with
the racket they produce. What exactly does the alarm sound like?

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I contemplated the use of Guinea fowl for the same cleaning up deer ticks. I
checked around and found that Guineas should be raised up with chickens so
they don't wander too far, as into the street. A friend tried this and lost
his flock of chickens and Guineas to the raccoons in short time. So I built
a barn in the field and made the remainder into lawn. No more deer ticks,
but I did have to borrow 20 grand to build the barn and buy a larger lawn
mower.

Chas Hurst

"Dwayne" wrote in message
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They love to eat ticks. You can watch a flock feeding in a field of
plants,
and see them cleaning up the tick problem. We lived 3 miles out of town
and
the only problem we saw, was that they always managed to be on the highway
when cars were driving by. They belonged to our aunt and uncle, but were
always welcome at our place.

Dwayne




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In article , Dave W
wrote:

I don't know about pest control, but they make great watchdogs.! They
raise
h___ when a stranger comes on your place.

That can be a down side. I hear they sometimes trouble neighbors with
the racket they produce. What exactly does the alarm sound like?

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Read the new mother earth news. They have a good article on the subject.

In article , Gary
Lawrence wrote:

Read the new mother earth news. They have a good article on the subject.

Do you have a web link? Which issue? What was the name of the article?

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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

Just know that they really are a mess and in the heat, it smells bad.



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

In article , wrote:

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

When I was very small, I had a pet gander who'd follow me about through
the rabbitry & gardens & yards, a lovely fellow, he'd once had a harem,
but now he had only me.

Our next door neighbor was a crazy woman who built a ten foot fence around
her property to cut herself off from neighbors on all sidees, with whom
she had sundry on-going battles or was suing over this or that bit of
nonsense that never got her anywhere but ostracized. She once gave me a
bowl of jello, though, & not understanding why all the adults on the block
hated her guts, I kind of liked her.

My gander found a way down a hillside & back up the other side of her
gigantic fence, so he could eat slugs in her never-mowed bright green
meadow-lawn. She told me he pooped on her walk, & if I didn't keep him out
of her yard she'd eat him. I assured her he was only doing a good deed by
eating her slugs. And anyway, how could a small child extend her ten foot
fence down the hillside for her.

Then one day my gander was gone, & out the back door of her house down the
hillside were all his plucked feathers & his head & feet. She really had
eaten a child's pet! And after that I shared the adults' dislike of her.

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/

OMG!!!!! That is TERRIBLE!!!!!!


On Mon, 19 May 2003 09:24:09 -0700,
(paghat) wrote:


Then one day my gander was gone, & out the back door of her house down the
hillside were all his plucked feathers & his head & feet. She really had
eaten a child's pet! And after that I shared the adults' dislike of her.

-paghat the ratgirl