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  • From: "Brungardt, Sam" <Sam.Brungardt@state.mn.us>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Ticks / guinea fowl
  • Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 08:15:11 -0500

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I've read varying reports on how effective guineas are for tick control.  I wish someone would put an end to the controversy and do a scientific study.  Without doubt, however, they'll eat them if they see them. -- Sam Brungardt, St. Paul, Minn.
 
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From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Erdman, Jim
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 7:59 AM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Ticks / guinea fowl

Our neighbors across the street have had guinea fowl for 15 years or more.  Usually they cross the road and make a tour of our yard and orchard area once or twice a year, and we often hear them screeching or what ever you call their cry.  They haven't lost many to coyotes, fox, or other critters, even though we do have fox, coyotes, fishers, and other interesting creatures in our neighborhood.  We live at the edge of a small city where suburbia is encroaching on small farms.
The neighbors originally got the guineas because of ticks, but I haven't asked them their opinion of using them for tick control in years.
 
Jim Erdman, in Menomonie, WI



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