In a message dated 7/21/2010 3:42:06 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
How are the Guineas on eating vegetables and plants, and scratching up mulches? Do you protect them at night from varmints? Do they lay eggs you can eat? Nancy They are not nearly as vicious as a chicken at the scratching thing. They do lay smaller eggs than a chicken and all are exactly the same shape and size. When ours are young, they roost in the chicken house but as they get larger, they quit coming back in at night. Most of ours fly up in a tree late in the evening. We have lost several this year because we are surrounded by woods which are full of predators such as coyotes etc. and they attack them during the day as the wander off in the woods behind the barn. When they are setting on a nest is when they are in the most danger...same as a chicken. Edith
