I too am desperate to find some sort of possibility in this category! I have 3 guinea fowl (all males - they are actually quieter than the females!) They are not yet a year old, perhaps 10 mo. I rent a detached cottage on a large property of approx 9 acres - the majority of which is taken up by my landlord's house & a couple other attached parsonages he rents out. The guineas are still quite vocal when they see strangers, the grounds keepers (which are here 3-5 days/week), and when cars come up & down the main drive. They also will carry on when it is windy, rainy & for no apparent reason which I am sure is just that they see a hawk or coyote lurking about (regular in this area) which we don't see. I got them last year when we were having a severe tick infestation that was so bad we were finding them in our bed at night! We were having to check the dog every time she came in or out of the house which usually turned up 2-3 attached ticks each time. It was completely unnerving. I even found one crawling out of my hair & onto my face while I was at work which is an hour from our house! I got the guineas & unleashed them on the property & from that day forward we have not seen a single tick! They were truly a god send. However, we have a new neighbor to the east which has complained to the landlord consistently about their squawking. The landlord has tried to give the neighbor excuses to buy them time to grow up & calm down, but the neighbors just aren't having it. We have been told they must go. We feed our dog & two cats an all organic raw meat/bones/organs diet which we pay a premium price for through local farms and much of the time in bulk from Whole Foods when something is on sale (we'll buy 40lb cases to get the additional case discount, & they grind them all up for us). So the dilemma is I can not justify giving them away to someone who will likely just turn them into food anyways when we buy food for our pets that comes from some bird of likely inferior quality (comparatively speaking) which will have to be killed also. I love having them around for pest control, and I have come to love them as my little friends too. The always quiet down whenever I come out to them or stick my head out the door & talk to them, and they coo at me through the windows & will follow me around the property.. At this point if there were some operation that would make them mute and enable them to continue living here, I would likely do it!
