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    Can Guinea Fowl Survive 100% on there own in Ohio?

    I retract my "this has gotta be a joke remark. It looks like, from earlier posts that you are planning to create some kind of hunting area - you are looking for information about populating the area with ringneck pheasants and bobwhite quail and are interested in making sure they are kept...
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    Can Guinea Fowl Survive 100% on there own in Ohio?

    Frankly this sounds like this is a "gotcha". Why in the world would anyone get guineas in the fall, keep them in their house all winter then drive them thirty miles away and turn them loose in uninhabited woods for "tick control". What's the point of this? Ticks are only a problem if you...
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    Plastic coop made by Omlet called "Eglu"

    I have a ChickNBarn and three pullets in it and it's fine - it would accomodate four I think. I have mine up on cement blocks inside a dog run which is covered over with netting to avoid hawks and I've followed Dawn's advice about latches and locks and all manner of protective Fort Knox like...
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    Any New Yorkers out there?

    I just joined - have the coop pretty much done, going to fence it into a dog run with a wire cover so the hawks don't carry away the girls - getting the chicks this weekend - I'm on LI out near the end of the North Fork....
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    Is it really a NY state law???

    Yep - it really is a NY State law that they must sell a minimum of six chicks. This was, in part, a response to keeping stores from selling one dyed blue chick at Easter etc - is geared to be an animal protective statute. Maybe you can get someone to share your order of six....
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