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  • From: Thomas Patrick Hurtgen <hurtgenmeadows AT gmail.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Guinea fowl in the Garden?
  • Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:21:01 -0500

Marie and the other kind souls who have shared their insight and experiences with guineas, 
Thank you very much.  It may come down to trading one problem (bugs) for another (guinea fowl).  Back to my original objective:  figure out some way to minimize the damage caused by cucumber, asparagus and squash beetles and harlequin bugs.  I also had the problem mentioned by one of the posters, and that is wilt as secondary damage from cucumber beetles.  What do farmers do who are organic or nearly so?  Tom
On Jan 13, 2010, at 1:54 PM, Marie Kamphefner wrote:

Regards to the list:
 
What we have learned about keeping guineas:
 
They will eat every last green strawberry if given the chance.
They like to roost in trees and be eaten by owls.
They will peck every ripening tomato at least once.
They will jump up and pick off hornworms.
They do help decimate the tick population.
They like to roost on the roof and make it sound like there are elephants running around overhead.
They hide their nests and bring in maybe two dozen chicks at a time. If we don’t catch the chicks the first day, they’re impossible to get and the mother will let them die off within a few days.
If you catch the chicks and put them into a chicken tractor for protection, the mother will follow them in after she tried to kill you.
They are extremely noisy and make good watchdogs.
The males chase each other endlessly.
They will attack you if they perceive their young are at risk or you’re trying to catch them at night and tear deep rips in your arms with their toenails.
They are good weather forecasters: If they go into the chicken house for the night, you know the weather will be really bad that night.
If they’re in a penned area, they will run the perimeter endlessly, apparently not realizing they can fly out.
 
Marie in Missouri
 
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