guinea fowl
After spending the first month on our new property and picking ticks off of our children, we decided that guinea fowl were a must for us. Guinea Fowl are notorius for tick and bug eating. I do believe their faces are something that comes straight out of a nightmare, looking like half bird half insane clown.
I sourced the guinea fowl from a farm about an hour away from us. They are already feathered which is nice so we did not have to house them in a brooder/indoors.
Guinea Fowl are flock animals and will stick together. When you first get them to your property, it is a no-no to just let them all start free ranging together. They will fly off an you will never see them again. After about 2 weeks of feeding them (heavily in the evening so they know where the free food is at night), you can start to let 1-3 out a day. After doing this for a month, you can increase the numbers you let out for the day. After 6 weeks you should be free to let all of them out for the day and still expect (hope for) them to return to their pen for nighttime roosting.
I sourced the guinea fowl from a farm about an hour away from us. They are already feathered which is nice so we did not have to house them in a brooder/indoors.
Guinea Fowl are flock animals and will stick together. When you first get them to your property, it is a no-no to just let them all start free ranging together. They will fly off an you will never see them again. After about 2 weeks of feeding them (heavily in the evening so they know where the free food is at night), you can start to let 1-3 out a day. After doing this for a month, you can increase the numbers you let out for the day. After 6 weeks you should be free to let all of them out for the day and still expect (hope for) them to return to their pen for nighttime roosting.
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