Wing clipping, pinioning or all natural - why do you do what you do?

[chickenzoo]

I didn't want guienas at first, took a few years for them to grow on me......... But now I enjoy them. The first few keets I raised up with baby chicks, and they are my best ones..... They have taught the others to stay close, we're to sleep etc.. Now when I drive up in the golf cart, they come fuss at me and tell me to get the food already. They warn me when the dogs are bad.... When their is something in the woods etc.... I enjoy them now

 

[GuineaLady93]

The most logical solution, of course, is to just not keep such a worrisome, troublesome bird at all. They provide very little benefit for the feed they eat, they are loud, they are extremely ugly, their eggs~if you can find 'em~are hard and small, they are difficult to contain...sounds like only a person who thrives on high stress levels would even contemplate owning such an animal.

Guineas provide you with great benefits. When mine free range (March-Nov) I only feed them once or twice a week and that is only a couple hand fulls of corn... They eat all of the ticks, tons of seeds from weeds, and lots of other stuff. When mine are out they never make that much noise, there are much uglier things in this world besides Guineas, their feathers are gorgeous, I found all of the nest from my guineas without much trouble and incubated all of their eggs.
I love my Guineas and don't know what I would do without them. They may not be for everyone, but they sure are for me!

 

[babalubird]

Well, I raised mine with my chickens.too. they still seem to be wandering off or.preditors re getting them...something isaking them disappear. They get oved our 4' net fence and are theb too stupix to figure out how to get back
Frustrating but I will get replacements. We were ovefrun with fieldice but the vuineas took care.of.it. valuable farm assets but yes frustrating.