Are Guinea Fowl a reasonable replacement for chickens?

[speckledhen]

If it's in the actual deed, then it's a neighborhood covenant, though there may be no actual HOA to enforce it, per se. Though my restriction here is not in the actual deed, nor is there a HOA for enforcement, it is recorded in the county as a group of subdivision covenants-it says no pigs and no mobile homes and that's really it. It's hysterical in mine because lots #1 and 2 are excepted...that's where the son of the "developer" lived and he lived in a mobile home and raised pigs.

You could probably hold them to the letter of the law and say it was specific only to chickens, not poultry in general-sounds like someone who didn't know what they were doing wrote those, sort of like ours, LOL. However, with guineas, someone would be trying to hold your feet to the fire over that clause and make your life generally unpleasant. Me, I'm just the type to do what I want and make them prove I wasn't allowed other poultry, but that's just me.

 

[JLeigh]

LOL, speckledhen, I'm just the opposite. I would ask myself two questions before I took on "The Man":

1) Do I want to put that bean up my nose?
and
2) Is this the hill I want to die on?

I love guineas (and chickens), but I wouldn't want to spend the cash to get them all set up, bring them in, get attached, and then be forced to re-home them later. But if the answer to those questions is "Yes" then I'd go all out for it.

JMHO, nothing more.

 

[Ellie M]

Thanks all for your replies. I might just sell that property, who want to live where they don't like chickens anyway!