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  • From: mongotrout AT mchsi.com
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] grasshoppers
  • Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:51:11 +0000

The only thing that the Guineas ever have bothered at my place is green beans.  They have a love for the leaves on green bean plants.  I fence them out of the bean patch with 20" chicken wire.  They have never flown over the fence to get to the beans, not yet anyway.....  We have a bad Japanese beetle problem almost every year, and the Guineas keep those in check also.

 

Chuck

SW Missouri

 

 

-------------- Original message from "Kate Halstead" <rockyprairie AT earthlink.net>: --------------

How do you deal with crops & the fowl? I gave up on chickens as pest control, except as an end-of-season 'run through and destroy' method. Our ducks (muscovies for slug control) don't seem to like much in the way of vegetables. Much to my surprise, as long as I put reemay over the lettuce, they leave most everything else alone, even the spinach. Are guinea fowl as discriminating?
 
Kate
Pacific NW



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