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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 10:59:50 -0500


On Jan 13, 2010, at 10:47 AM, <sunnfarm AT netscape.com> wrote:

Guinea hens are fun to have around. Yes they will eat a few cucumber beetles then poop on the ground in the plants then a cucumber will contact the poop then someone will buy the cucumber eat it get very sick and die.

Probably of course they won't get sick at all, let alone sick enough to die. However, if any customer gets sick for any reason, and they find out you had fresh manure on the crops, that's where the blame is likely to be assigned. Also, the chances that someone actually does get sick from the manure, while extremely small, are not zero.

As we sometimes tell out customers, when they ask if they need to wash produce: birds do fly over the field. But increasing this factor by deliberately fencing your flock into the garden may be unwise.

-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale



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