Will guineas tear up my flower beds?

[Carolina Kitty]

Our guineas free range and my flower beds are next door to the run where they stay at night. They like to wonder through and eat the bugs in my beds and off the flowers, but they have actually been very gentle with my flowers. The female did nest in my beds under a rhododendron this summer and they dug a pretty sizeable dust bath behind the flowers, but the dust bath is a small price to pay for the all the bug eating they do. I have blueberry bushes and this year had a bumper crop because of all the Japanese beetles the guineas ate last year and this year. And they chase off the other birds so I didn’t have to net my bushes. Mind, I only have two adults and one baby, so a bigger flock may do a bit more damage.