Subject: [NAFEX] Subject: Re: japanese beetles and avian predators
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:27:04 -0500
No domestic fowl if you expect to raise fruit and vegetables in a garden. chickens will dig and/or eat everything. I have fenced my chickens out of my garden. After it freezes I will take the fence down and they can root around in there until April when the fence will go up again.
>Can I just keep guinea hens or some type of domestic fowl in my fenced orchard to eat the bad bugs such as Japanese beetles? Because it is the only area safe from deer I keep all my fruit and vegetable gardens
there. I
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[NAFEX] Subject: Re: japanese beetles and avian predators,
Toni Pralle, 06/17/2007