The Middle Tennessee Thread

[JennaLynn122]

Looks like you are using the fence for one side and building out the other 2 and the front is going to be the run???? Looks good!

yeah the fence is the back wall, we are building along the fence (8ft out) and splitting it into 3 the runs will be 45 ft out from the front wall in the area i was standing in to take the pic

 

[Silver Rock]

[COLOR=333333]can any one tell me where i  can find more information about the Knoxville nationals?[/COLOR]

Here is a link to The Tennessee Valley Poultry Club Facebook Group page.

https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=103201969804731

 

[RedRidge]

 
I sure hope they only go for the bugs. In the past, the bugs have always been my biggest problem in the the garden. Our dogs run off all the deer...cows are fenced though...Our dogs only rarely take care of the snakes though ...

If they can keep the bugs out of the squash, tomatoes and corn I will be happy.

Guineas. .. I have a love/hate relationship with them. I have to say or tick problem is greatly reduced but... they are noisy and they do eat certain things in the garden. They will demolish cabbage and love the leaves on cauliflower. Other than that they pretty well leave everything else alone - especially once it is really established. That said. .. Make sure you don't plant anything near their chosen dusting spot or it will never survive.
If I could catch my guineas is give them away. .. they keep nesting and laying eggs in my strawberries - Argh#

 

[poultrylady]

My experience with guineas is they will eat your garden. I had 60 adult guineas last year and had to sell all but 6 that I could not catch. My husband planted a large row of green onions, he went back to the feed store to buy more to set out, in the 30 min. he was gone the quineas had ate ALL of them! He plants around 1000 tomato plants (he sells tomatoes) and my sorry guineas pecked holes or ate most all of his first crop until I could catch them and sell them. To say the least he was highly upset! Those birds seemed to eat eat anything he planted, absolutly tormenting him. If I can't can't catch these last ones I am afraid they will probably be shot, he depends on his large gardens for income, so I really can't blame him, hopefully I will be able to catch them shortly.

 

[DMRippy]

Hum that is not good. Maybe we need a fence. We have stuff for an electric fence but no electricity near the garden.

 

[RedRidge]

Hum that is not good. Maybe we need a fence. We have stuff for an electric fence but no electricity near the garden.

Fencing and even electric poultry netting work great for chickens but the only thing I have found that will keep the guineas out of the garden are Maremma

 

[DMRippy]

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My neighbor's fence is just electric. One day I saw a guinea in the garden and she couldn't figure out how to get out.....she just needed to FLY over but instead she just paced the fence LOL. I think since this is something NEW the guinea will stay away.... they don't like new things usually. We will see. they are all different.

 

[Brown Chicka Brown Cow]

Thanks for all the great responses on the guinea. It helped in my decision. I think I'm just going to keep them in my coops an runs if I do get them, at least till I'm done in the garden. Maybe they'll keep snakes down in there at least. I'll have turkey though...maybe they'll do as good a job at that and I'll just stick with those...lol..

 

[Brown Chicka Brown Cow]

If I can find the time I am going to try to grow the vines on wire or some kind of frame..... My back is not the best so if I can get them UP I will be better off.

One of my customers had 30 chickens killed in a do attack and she sent her a bill of $8500.... I don't think she will see that much......

Oh my...People who aren't chicken owners don't usually realize how much money can go into them. I don't think she'll see that much either. She'll be lucky to get 10% of that and that's if she has receipts for everything..

 

[FeyRaine]

My experience with guineas is they will eat your garden. I had 60 adult guineas last year and had to sell all but 6 that I could not catch. My husband planted a large row of green onions, he went back to the feed store to buy more to set out, in the 30 min. he was gone the quineas had ate ALL of them! He plants around 1000 tomato plants (he sells tomatoes) and my sorry guineas pecked holes or ate most all of his first crop until I could catch them and sell them. To say the least he was highly upset! Those birds seemed to eat eat anything he planted, absolutly tormenting him. If I can't can't catch these last ones I am afraid they will probably be shot, he depends on his large gardens for income, so I really can't blame him, hopefully I will be able to catch them shortly.

Ok lots of folks have had a difficult time w/ Guineas eating from their gardens! It makes me wonder, the time I had no issues was over 15 yrs ago, & just the plain original color/type so I wonder if the birds have changed since then. Maybe being raised by broody chickens? or being feed table scraps? or some other factor has taught them to eat the garden directly? I know way back then I was happily surprised when they ignored the red ripe tomatoes so perhaps I was just very lucky w/ that one batch of birds.

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Meanwhile, the broody I moved is still sitting the 9 eggs from the bator that I put under her, going into move +3 days so really hope a few of the eggs hatch any time now...