Guinea fowl visitors...

[Elmochook]

This morning i woke up and there were 2 guinea fowl wandering around my yard screeching and chasing my cats... No flapping idea where they came from. No offense to people who like these things but they are noisier than the 5 roosters that hang on my property and i already give out too much extra food to my neighbors chickens and cant really have more strays... What should i do to get rid of them? I dont talk to my neighbors around me and live in the country so calling animal control on them seems like it might be fruitless... Any ideas how to safely relocate my new strays??

 

[R2elk]

This morning i woke up and there were 2 guinea fowl wandering around my yard screeching and chasing my cats... No flapping idea where they came from. No offense to people who like these things but they are noisier than the 5 roosters that hang on my property and i already give out too much extra food to my neighbors chickens and cant really have more strays... What should i do to get rid of them? I dont talk to my neighbors around me and live in the country so calling animal control on them seems like it might be fruitless... Any ideas how to safely relocate my new strays??

If you can catch them, call animal control to come pick them up. Other options contingent on you catching them are to advertise them for sale or process and eat them. Guineas are really delicious.

 

[Elmochook]

If you can catch them, call animal control to come pick them up. Other options contingent on you catching them are to advertise them for sale or process and eat them. Guineas are really delicious.

Catching them will be the problem lol. My yards a swamp from the rain recently and those lil buggers are fast. I wish i had a casting net...

 

[R2elk]

Catching them will be the problem lol. My yards a swamp from the rain recently and those lil buggers are fast. I wish i had a casting net...

My father always recommended using a .22 to shoot guineas in the head before processing them. Using a shotgun would be no worse than shooting a pheasant or waterfowl before processing.

 

[Elmochook]

My father always recommended using a .22 to shoot guineas in the head before processing them. Using a shotgun would be no worse than shooting a pheasant or waterfowl before processing.

My husband has a .22 but im not comfortable enough to shoot it by myself... :/ im not a great shot

 

[SimoneG]

if you have a local feed store you could always put up an ad that they showed up and are free to whoever comes to catch them? Or if you have a local fb page you could do a found ad. My guineas will come to the barn for mirrors and if I play hen noises from youtube. Also a thought.. if you are on FB join the guinea fowl enthuestist group. theres a number of people in TX. Maybe someone is in your area and would come remove them?

 

[Nwygle93]

I may be overly sensitive for saying this...but I'm shocked that people suggest shooting them! What if they actually are somebody's pets...I don't know. It's just sad to me. I like the option of catching them and calling animal control to pick them up. If it were me, I'd go buy a bunch of Black Cats (firework poppers) and chuck it by them. That's how I used to get rid of a neighbors nuisance dog lol

 

[Elmochook]

I may be overly sensitive for saying this...but I'm shocked that people suggest shooting them! What if they actually are somebody's pets...I don't know. That's just sad to me. I like the option of catching them and calling animal control to pick them up. If it were me, I'd go buy a bunch of Black Cats (firework poppers) and chuck it by them. That's how I used to get rid of a neighbors nuisance dog lol

Oh well they moved on and i haven't seen or had to deal with them... My only thought with them being someones pets is this is the country and they should have secured them better when they got em.