TICKS Are Coming THIS Spring - Defeat Them Without Chemicals!
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I was driving down the interstate here in Fl and I saw about 10-12 wild guineas and said to my brother "People don't know how valuable those are when you're in a heavy wooded and/or grassy area, otherwise somebody would have scooped them up already"
We love our guineas! Makes a HUGE difference on the tick population.
My neighbors had a flock who visited me while I had my coffee every morning. The cats face when he realized he was outnumbered on the porch..😂🤣😱 I called them The Coffee Squad…loved them! Miss them! Hope they get another flock.
Hey Zac, we received our box of 20 Guinea Keets yesterday... We also built a 8' x 16' coop and have 14 full grown chickens (13 hens and 1 Rooster) getting 13 eggs a day.
Awesome! You guys are rockin it!
I love our ladies! I call them that because when they run looks like their wearing skirts and screaming lol!
I worked as a surveyor for a couple of years in North Georgia. I surveyed large tracks of undeveloped land and no amount of bug spray would keep the ticks off. There were days I would pull anywhere from 5 to 10 ticks off me at a time I became extremely one summer and the doctors could not diagnose me, but I am sure it was due to tick bites. I would put up with some loud birds before I would go through the illness I went through with ticks!
Spray Permethrin on your clothes when in tick territory. They die as they climb your clothing
I just got 3 guineas and 9 chickens a couple weeks ago wish me luck
Guineas also make great proximity alarms 😂
It's alert to the cops lol
They are amazing animals and the amount of ticks they will eat is amazing. We have had them last a couple years but not breed for me. My uncle had them breed and ended up with almost 100 of them. He lived behind a battle field and the conservation department told him that they were responsible for the increase in the deer population on the battlefield and the overall health of the deer. As far as the noise, well I look at it like this it may make someone crazy but it will not cause cancer and the chemicals they are definitely capable of causing cancer in humans and pets.
Im not a fan of the noise at all but,we understand theyre essential to our homestead. We have about twenty guineas and i swear they are like the MS13 of the homestead the way they carry on with the gang mentality. 😂😂 Cheers to the guinea 😂,🍺🍺🍺
Yeah, they are like gang members.
ive been fighting ticks in my yard for a few years now. None of the common off the shelf stuff is working. i may have to get some Guineas and my neighbors will just have to deal with the noise LOL
We have 7 guinea fowl.I'll be getting more next week. We have 15 Acres if we get less than 3 guinea fowl we start seeing ticks and know it's time for more birds.
We've had guineas for three years. After a few months of having them, I have seen ONE tick on our farm. We love our guinea fowl. The biggest problem we've had is that until they're grown and experienced, they seem to be dumb as rocks and will find any way imaginable to die.
Their voices sound like a squeaky gate hinge...metal on metal😂
I love them, they are not annoying to me at all, I find them entertaining! I have 4 males, that way they stay around.
I'm in southern Kentucky & already saw ticks on my boys a month ago when they came in from playing outside. I do have chickens & let them out during the day but haven't gotten guineas yet. I may get some if I can add them in along with my chickens. 😊
I absolutely HATE ticks, snakes & mosquitoes!
Thanks for the awesome tips & advice!
I love them! I call them my barnyard bullies. When I have them I may find an odd tick on a cow. Without them, my cows are loaded with ticks. I raise them with a couple of chicken chicks around the same age. That way they will go into the hen house at night.
We have 14 White African Guinea's and 1 African Goose who thinks it is a Guinea. We love them and after awhile the noise they make becomes background noise. A benefit to the noise they make is that when they start making a lot a noise it is a signal to our Great Pyrenees to run and check the parameter. He seems to be attuned to their noise. It is like sounding the alarm. Also Guinea's will stick around longer if they are raised with chickens. At least that is our experience.
Thanks for mentioning that bc I was wondering how to get them to stick around more. I heard if you home them like not let them out of their coop for 3 months it “homes” them to the spot butttt that’s 3 months of prime tick time with them not eating ticks so I didn’t want to do that. Have to get a coop quickly together for them though and hate to do it to have them leave shortly after! Do they do okay with ducks too? Am thinking of getting some ducks and Guineas together
@@learninladyhomesteader9374 Our experience with ducks is they are a lot more messy. Our Guinea's stick around with the chickens. I think what the American Homesteader says about Guinea's being more of a temporary bird is true. We get their eggs and let Bantams hatch them out. Bantams are much better at taking care of young chicks than Guinea's. First time I let a Guinea hatch out her own she just ran off and left them to fend for them selves which inevidibly means death to the chicks. Guineas are good birds but a little on the dumb side when it comes to survival. Makes me wonder how they have made it for so long especially since they are native to Africa.
@@DontBeFooledAmerica1 thank you bc kept asking about that with the ducks (bc we have some wet soppy areas here thought would be good for ducks) but wanted to know before we start if they do well with them or not. Will just get some more layers to raise up with them then. 🤷♀️ thank you!
The sound of nature is music 🎶
Shalom from Rogers, Arkansas
Dog ran off into the woods and we pulled thirty ticks off her when she got back. Here in west mi the ticks are horrible
Same here in mid michigan
Mid east to be more exact
I've had Lyme disease for 12 yrs and counting. I always wanted to get guineas but my husband said no. He passed last year but I still cannot get guineas because my neighbors are too close. Be diligent with your tick checks. God bless🙏🙏❤
Ozone therapy cures lyme! Its the only thing thats effective, unless you goto Germany or Mexico and spend $10k
They are adorable🥰
Stuck living in town, but I have found that opossums and fire ants take care of ticks too 🙂 I purposely keep a bowl of water on the deck and keep the underside of the deck protected for Mr Opossum's comfort LOL!
Haha .. just now hearing your comparison to guinea fowl .. unfortunately the city ordinances only allow for chickens here, but opossum aren't regulated (yet!)
FUN FACT: in the city of Fort Smith you can have any animal so long as it stays in your yard (no cages needed) - only exception is the pig ... no pigs in the city of Fort Smith - I've had Muscovy ducks before and they are the next best thing to guineas because I could not find guineas for sale - they are like music to the ears
We are getting some “expendables” this year. We had them in the past and they are annoying, but way better than poison and/or Lyme disease!
We have guineas and about 8 acres here in Georgia. We see ticks all of the time. We have a bunch more coming to see what happens.
They are soooo cute!
We got 6 guinea keets last year and raised them along with some chicks. They roost in the same coop with the chickens at night. Because they "think they're chickens" we've only had 2 out of the 6 wander away. (At least that's the theory.)
This is good to know. I have some on order, and had been planning on brooding them with chicks. I'd like to keep them around for a while. thanks
Yep. Raised 4 keets with 15 chicks. They all get along fine as far as birds go and the Guinea don't stray. They do what the chickens do.
I live in a small city and there are ticks all over the place, including my yard. Just had one on my face today.
Had my second tick bite this past Wednesday! Phelps county MO
They are alarm systems as well. They make a lot of noise if they see a critters or predators
We have a fairly active road out front and I was unable to keep the guineas from playing in the road. They were really funny birds but I can't keep them.
On our Rocky Mtn Homestead, we had a bunch of ticks on our property down by our gate area...We brought in our male and female guinea and we haven't seen ticks for 19 years.... They obliterated them. Our female guinea disappeared, but our male guinea lived a very long time until he died of old age...We got 10 guineas later, not for ticks, but for just to have on our homestead...Like you said, they all nested in the trees and one by one they all were killed off by something. With our last two guineas, both males, one of them killed the other and then our dog killed the last one.
Those first 2 guineas we had killed about 7 guinea pigs that we had in a cage next to them in just one night...I didn't know then but learned that they go after rodents, too...They can also go after your chickens and ducks...
We bought 9 guineas back in 2009 and 2 females layed and hatched 21 babies so we sold them now we are down to 2 males who are 15 years old. They learned how to survive and defend themselves...
WOW, that's a long time!
I think free range chickens will work also, although likely not as effectively as Guineas.
Yes they do help!
I have 10 Guinea hens on order can't hardly wait. I am getting them solely for tick control. I'm hoping we can keep them around for a while, but after seeing this, I may need to be ready say goodbye to them (and ticks).
Sorry to ask a stupid question, but does anyone know if you could trim their wings and keep them from flying over a 4 foot fence? Thanks!
I second this question!
❤❤❤soooo cute!
We let our chickens sit on the guinea eggs and we've got about 12 that are coming to hatch soon here but this year we are going to let our guineas loose and keep some for eggs the eggs are awesome
They just drive my husband nuts but I just love them
Southern Illinois here. Been pullin' ticks since February. And that is with using bug spray on the skin and pyrethrum spray on the clothing. I swear these lil' blood suckers are from Chernobyl.
Actually Plum Island
@marcusbillings1644 spot on!!
We started with 8, by the next year we had 15, last year it was up to 25 and this year we're down to 21. My wife has to take their eggs or we'd end up with 50 by Fall. For some reason they breed well here even though our neighbors say they never get babies to hatch and live. And we went from extreme tick problem to hardly any at all.
Thats AMAZING! I've heard of people who can do this and the only explanation that I can think of is that you have VERY LOW predator pressure.
@@Anamericanhomestead We've lost several chickens to a bobcat, and i think that is what got the guineas as well, and I have seen a puma slink off in the woods, been a bear once or twice... the dog keeps the pigs and raccoons and white tail... away and the way we are situated in a little valley the hawks don't seem to poach here although they and a couple of bald eagle pass be once in a while. But every August that bobcat will dash out of the woods around 3pm and grab someone.
We bought $60 worth of guinea chicks and they all died in two weeks. There was also some regular chicken chicks with them. And they survive just fine. What is the craziest thing I ever seen one by one they died.
❤ this!
🤔 ok, if I see some for sale at the feed store - I will grab some 😁
Love guineas. Unfortunately my one and only neighbor does not. Besides that, guineas are too stressful for me. They would gang up on roosters and beat them up and in the winter they won't go in the coop. 2 of them flew off before dark and were gone for 2 of the coldest nights at negative 36. When they did return they had a few frostbitten toes. They would also stand on the top of my chimney while the woodstove was burning screeching in the smoke. Never again..lol
My guineas are defective! I started with 12 and 3 years later, I am down to a pair. But even with 12, I still had/have ticks.
I love Guinia Fowl. And they are tasty too. You can buy them in the grocery store in the UK in the poultry section next to the chicken.
Shalom from Mount Ida, Arkansas.
I live in southern Missouri like 10 minutes from Arkansas so basically right near you and I've gotten guinea fowl a couple years ago and I guess maybe if you have 7000 of them maybe the would make a difference but I've never noticed any difference at all by having guinea fowl. I get bit by ticks often as well as everyone else in my family. We just pick them off and crush them or toss them away. You are not the only one who advocates for guinea fowl for ticks but I've never had any luck.
We have a flock for the hollow. As we are clearing the are here first thing in the morning. 3 of us had our own docks and they joined together and we let them do there thing
Do chickens help? I'm only allowed 4 chickens (somehow, there are 8 now). I could never have guinea hens on this property.
My chickens kill snakes.
So cute! But why if they're expendable that their more expensive then chickens?
Can you train them to be mobile? Itd be a decent business to have a flock you can take somewhere and clear out a plot of land.
Love our guineas. Haven’t found the sound to be annoying, but I have 5 young children so I’m likely desensitized 😅 I never hear folks talk about the very pleasant sounds they make, it’s like a symphony of pleasant chirps/whistles. It’s a sound they make when they’re relaxing together. They actually follow us around the homestead like puppies, pretty hilarious
I have a batch of guineas coming in a couple weeks. I was going to wait until next year but because it was such a a mild winter, I ordered them back in January. I know it's going to be bad for ticks and all bugs this year which is why I prepared and guineas was one way!
I have followed you for a long time two years ago I got chickens and guineas. Everything you had previously said was 100% spot on. I had eight guinea hens on 6 1/2 to 7 acres. They kept the tick population down. They were somewhat aggressive to my one and only rooster. Little by little I could not get them to go back into the coop and then they started to slowly disappear. I am ready for more guinea fowl because I too live in the Ozarks (on the west side of Lake of the Ozarks.) I would much prefer the guineas then I would the ticks.
How do you keep them from leaving
I’ve owned guineas ever since I moved out to my 5 acre homestead. I can attest to the fact that they act like chickens, live with my chickens and I haven’t had one tick after a year. I will say as a con, they’re pretty aggressive with the chickens. Overall, a big win.
They kill mice and rats too. They lay eggs and are good eating.
Brave man. Sticking your hand in there. Fresh meat.
They are a noisy helmet heads. They are viscous birds. Worse the some chickens but they have a job and do it very well.
I love mine they do a great job on ours
Excellent tip, thanks! If they survive long enough, are their eggs usable? Are they good eatin'?
The eggs are good to eat, however, the shells are hard to break so you will need to learn how to crack them without half of the egg going into the pan and half on the stove. I have several times accidentally dropped them from about 3 feet on a linoleum covered concrete floor and they didn't break.
I had the chance to get 6 of them FREE from a friend and my husband said absolutely not!! Ugh.... That was probably something that should have been ask forgiveness not permission. We've all already had so many ticks this year!!
We tried having them twice and list them all so quickly that I don't know if we actually saw any benefit at all 😢. I would love to maybe try a movable coop?? And maybe we could try raising them from babies like yours?? Maybe they would stay around longer??
I pulled a tick out of me two weeks ago! Kentucky
I’m originally from KY. Was home the first part of April back in 2009. We were pulling them off our kids, dogs as well as ourselves. Just from taking down dead trees for my mom. I couldn’t get over it.
Would guineas wreck a 'Back to Eden' garden? We can't let our chickens free range because they have too much fun scratching up all of the wood chip mulch in our gardens.
They make good guard animals to
How many do we need per acre? I’ve had 9 guineas survive for a year now but I have not noticed a drop in our deer tick population.
I started with 6 down to 3 now but i found their nest and my friend os currently hatching out 15 from the eggs i found
One thing thats annoying is that they also dig up my plants
Other than that i like them a lot squacky dinasours i call them
Guinesses taste good to, lol
I have 1 big questions before I start building a coop and investing in guineas.... Do they eat from the garden? If so, how do you stop them??
Zach, when do you put them out in the coop, and at what point do you release them on the property?
Waiting to hear this one
They are known to run off with wild turkeys. I had 8 doen to 1 but he sticks around. At least 3 years.
They're great for ticks... they eat a lot and they're loud. I've never paid for guineas, they've always wondered over from neighbors. One group would have conversations with my other neighbors horses all day. I think the horses thought it was funny... they would neigh and send the guineas into a tantrum. That lasted a few days before my husband got his 22.
Good info. Will they wreck a garden?
Ugh I have had so many ticks on me the last two weeks. It’s been terrible. The tick bites itch really bad now. And my poor dog has had a ton of ticks on her I keep pulling off. I’m trying to talk my neighbors into getting hens but the coyotes are so bad they said they won’t survive
Hi ,we're new to guineas , how much do you feed them so they will eat thz bug's.??.GOD BLESS
I've tried guineas but they're so freakin loud. I also have a flea and tick problem....
I have guinea hens bit they leave
I have seen them do that
My moms always had guineas and said they can eat their weight in ticks every day. You are right they are the dumbest birds.
East Tennessee- even when below zero in December and found ticks 🤦♀️
Quick question- is it better to get them at a young age or get adults?
Getting them as adults is less work. But if you get them as adults, be sure to keep them locked up in a coop for about 3 weeks before you turn them loose. That teaches them where home is. Chicks are also usually much cheaper.
@@Anamericanhomestead thank you, I appreciate the information and your quick response.
What about fleas?
opossum carry more ticks than I eat?
Looks like they need piperzine in their water for gap worms maybe, opening their mouth like that.
I doubt it. Gapeworms are pretty rare as far as I know and its usually spread in the wild. These come from a commercial hatchery. If something happens, I'll keep everyone posted
What's a chigger?
We have every intention of getting guinee birds.
WHAT do you THINK about having PEACOCKS on the HOME STEAD?
They also kill mice and any insects
Can you get adults or is it better to get the babies?
Karen squad for the win!!!! Them birds are the best. They are ugly as heck, but taste dang good
Also, Zach, why haven’t you made a t-shirt with the expendables on it? Haha
QUESTION: Where did you find sexed guinea fowl? My last order made me take them straight run, and you can imagine how that turned out. 😂
We tried em, as soon as we let them out the dogs took em out
Have you ever used any of their 💩in your garden? Is it hot or cold? I'm guessing hot...
Do they lay eggs?
Same as chicken poop and yes, they lay eggs.
Their eggs come to a point, that’s how you know they are guinea eggs, and just as delicious as free range chicken eggs
$9? That's a can of Raid and far more effective!
Ordered some nematodes
Why do they keep opening their mouths like they are choking? 😳 Hot? I haven’t seen a brooder plate that’s adjustable! I need that!
They eat honey bees😳
We had them before, they are extremely noisy and don't stay on property. Most of them were either killed by predators or they wandered off and never came back. I wouldn't get them again, not worth the aggravation.