Hello from North Florida!

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GumCreekGuineas said:
Hello all on BYC! I am new to the world of poultry and have started with 33 guinea keets. I would eventually like to get a few chickens as well. I have been obtaining a lot of information from the forums here on BYC so I figured I should join and introduce myself.

I live in North Central Florida (Madison County) on a deer farm / hunting preserve with my husband, two dogs (will be three next week), two barncats, and now the guineas. Thank you to everyone on here for posting all of this super useful information, especially about guineas!
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Welcome to BYC. I am North of you in Central Ga, Byron Ga.
 
GumCreekGuineas said:
@liz My husband had fallen in love with them seeing them in the wild on a couple of trips he has taken to Africa. It has only taken me a few days and I am in love as well. I know they won't stay this cute (or quiet!) for long but luckily we are on 2,200 acres so we don't have neighbors for over a mile in any direction so only we will have to listen to them. We have a surplus of ticks around because of all of our deer, so hopefully when they are big enough to free range they will be in guinea heaven!
I originally wanted chickens but the more I researched the guineas, I decided they should be a good fit for us. I am still considering getting a few chickens for the eggs (and because I think they are beautiful). What kind of chickens do you have?
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You can eat guinea eggs if you can find them. I enjoyed them when I was a kid in South Alabama.
 
Greetings from College Station, Texas. Your little guinea chicks are pretty cute.

Our neighbor used to have guinea hens, and we got a big kick out of watching how the herd stayed together.
 
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I have 3 Mallard ducks. My wife made a platter of deviled eggs from the duck eggs and no one ever knew the difference.
 
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The Middle of Nowhere is a good place to have Guineas. They are good fliers and they like to roost in trees so even free range it is hard for predators to catch them. They are quite noisy but that can be beneficial. The will make lots of noise when anything strange comes up. I live in a semi rural area and one morning as I was going to work I heard my neighbors guineas in my garden really making a lot of noise. I went down to see what was wrong and they had discovered a large rattlesnake down there and it was leaving. They had run it off.
 
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The Middle of Nowhere is a good place to have Guineas. They are good fliers and they like to roost in trees so even free range it is hard for predators to catch them. They are quite noisy but that can be beneficial. The will make lots of noise when anything strange comes up. I live in a semi rural area and one morning as I was going to work I heard my neighbors guineas in my garden really making a lot of noise. I went down to see what was wrong and they had discovered a large rattlesnake down there and it was leaving. They had run it off.
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Yeah, lucky for us neighbors are a mile or more away in any direction. We have a ton of ticks, snakes, frogs, etc to keep the guineas occupied once they are old enough to free range. I guess the hard part is going to be getting them into the coop at night.
 
GumCreekGuineas said:
Yeah, lucky for us neighbors are a mile or more away in any direction. We have a ton of ticks, snakes, frogs, etc to keep the guineas occupied once they are old enough to free range. I guess the hard part is going to be getting them into the coop at night.
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I head for the run with some goodies calling them and I am over run by chickens headed for the coop at night.
 

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