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I have 5 acres and I keep the chickens penned up in their run due to predators (mostly dogs and fox), So the answer to how many chickens for me is Zero. But I do keep Guineas, about 15 or so and they fly out of the run every day and spend all day eating the bugs. They work great, before guineas I use to have grasshoppers galore and ticks aplenty. Now I rarely see grasshoppers or crickets or any more than a couple of bugs here and there. I use to have to pull off ticks half a dozen a day if I walked out in the field, now I only found one tick last summer. The Guineas do a better job and they also are better at avoiding predators, once they learn. If something takes a guinea, the others learn.
I have 5 acres and I keep the chickens penned up in their run due to predators (mostly dogs and fox), So the answer to how many chickens for me is Zero. But I do keep Guineas, about 15 or so and they fly out of the run every day and spend all day eating the bugs. They work great, before guineas I use to have grasshoppers galore and ticks aplenty. Now I rarely see grasshoppers or crickets or any more than a couple of bugs here and there. I use to have to pull off ticks half a dozen a day if I walked out in the field, now I only found one tick last summer. The Guineas do a better job and they also are better at avoiding predators, once they learn. If something takes a guinea, the others learn.
