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If you haven't, you can try chickens or guinea fowl. Chickens are vastly easier, but I hear guineas are more effective (they were too wild for us and wouldn't r
by sethammons 7y ago
If you haven't, you can try chickens or guinea fowl. Chickens are vastly easier, but I hear guineas are more effective (they were too wild for us and wouldn't return to the barn). Chickens will hunt down bugs in the area. Now that you have a garden, you would need to keep them out else they destroy it.
- Jedd 7y agoGuinea fowl are ... nonchalant. You need to keep them in your chicken (or similar) coop for several weeks, and then release them periodically during the day for several hours - they'll come back at night. Then you can basically let them roam, but they're notoriously dumb, and worse, careless parents. Ours would abandon nests & eggs eagerly, and then go play on the road (800 metres away) despite being on the property for several years. There was no water near where they'd loiter, and, of course, cars. The numbers quickly dwindled.
- sethammons 7y agoWe did keep them in the barn for several weeks. The first chance they got, they ran for the bushes and never came back. They got picked off by predators over the next week or so. Meanwhile the chickens are happy to go back at night for water and food.
- CalRobert 7y agoHens are on the horizon but we only moved here a year ago and added a new human which has kept us pretty busy. This weekend's project is enclosing the garden to keep rabbits out anyway, though.