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  • From: "Bob, Kathleen, & Kory Brocious" <bbrocious AT hotmail.com>
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Alternative to Frontline
  • Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 11:25:41 -0400

Folks, a word about guineas. Actually two words.
1. If you have chickens they will end up with the chickens and will eat their feed.
2. Guineas LOVE young tomato plants and will destroy them completely if they can get to them.
We protect our plants with chicken wire.
Bob


From: Windsoap AT aol.com
Reply-To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Alternative to Frontline
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 11:00:34 EDT

In a message dated 4/11/2004 5:23:31 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
rbfarr AT erols.com writes:


> Can anyone recommend a safe (and preferably organic) alternative.

Yes, there are excellent alternatives using essential oils. I would suggest
a mixture of pennyroyal, eucalyptus and sweet orange oil. you can mix this in
equal portions and add about 1 ounce to 32 ounces of basic doggie shampoo.
don't use human shampoo on dogs. in between shampoos, you can put just a bit
of some kind of oil - olive, canola, whatever, just not mineral - in your hand,
add a couple drops of the essential oil and do a quick rub. I would think
that herbs such as pennyroyal, creeping thyme, etc would grow well for you.
start a couple flats and plug them into your yard, pref where the dogs like to
hang out and sleep. Pennyroyal is not recommended for cats or young puppies -
substitute melissa.

The guinea fowl solution is also a good one, but yes they will challenge
predators. Their little brains are smaller than peas, after all! Ours line up
and scream at coyotes. We lose several every year and replace them to keep the
mob at about 30. They will roost in a tree, so if you can provide a pen
around a tree, they'll live longer. They will also entertain you and visitors to
your farm.

Wendy Akin
Texas
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Bob, Kathleen, and Kory Brocious
Tenacity Farm
Campbellsburg, Kentucky

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