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  • From: Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • 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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