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- From: Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net>
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- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Guinea fowl in the Garden?
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:54:14 -0500
On Jan 13, 2010, at 9:53 AM, Thomas Patrick Hurtgen wrote:
Does anyone have experience with guinea fowl as consumers of various
pests in the garden?
Current health recommendations are that they shouldn't be there during the growing season, as they are, of course, going to deposit fresh manure on the crop.
There's currently no enforcement of this unless you're certified organic; but you might want to study up on the issue before making up your mind, especially if these are crops for sale.
There might be benefit to putting them in after harvest is over -- they can clean up insects at that point, possibly significantly reducing your pest load for the next year, and simultaneously fertilize the field for the next year's crop; and you wouldn't then have to worry about them damaging the crop, of course.
-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale
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[Market-farming] Fwd: [COMFOOD:] farming in KY question,
Deb Taft, 01/12/2010
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[Market-farming] Guinea fowl in the Garden?,
Thomas Patrick Hurtgen, 01/13/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Guinea fowl in the Garden?,
Bill Shoemaker, 01/13/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Guinea fowl in the Garden?, BarbaraJ, 01/13/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Guinea fowl in the Garden?, Sean Albiston, 01/13/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Guinea fowl in the Garden?, Road's End Farm, 01/13/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Guinea fowl in the Garden?,
breck, 01/13/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Guinea fowl in the Garden?,
Marlin Burkholder, 01/13/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Guinea fowl in the Garden?, Road's End Farm, 01/13/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Guinea fowl in the Garden?,
Wiediger, Alison, 01/14/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Guinea fowl in the Garden?, breck, 01/14/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Guinea fowl in the Garden?,
Marlin Burkholder, 01/13/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Guinea fowl in the Garden?,
Bill Shoemaker, 01/13/2010
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[Market-farming] Guinea fowl in the Garden?,
Thomas Patrick Hurtgen, 01/13/2010
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