[NAFEX] Subject: Re: japanese beetles and avian predators

Toni Pralle toni.pralle at gmail.com
Sun Jun 17 12:27:04 EDT 2007


No domestic fowl if you expect to raise fruit and vegetables in a garden.
chickens will dig and/or eat everything. I have fenced my chickens out of my
garden. After it freezes I will take the fence down and they can root around
in there until April when the fence will go up again.

>Can I just keep guinea hens or some type of domestic fowl in my fenced
orchard to eat the bad bugs such as Japanese beetles?  Because it is the
only area safe from deer I keep all my fruit and vegetable gardens
there. I

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Toni in zone 4 Iowa USA
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