Should I Get Guineas?
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What are guineas good for?
Guineas have been used to control wood ticks and insects such as grasshoppers, flies, and crickets. Guineas can reduce keepers' risk of Lyme disease by consuming deer ticks, which carry the disease. Guinea fowl also eat slugs, and flocks have been known to attack snakes.
Are guineas easy to keep?
About half of all baby guineas, or keets, are cocks, which works out fine, because (unlike chickens) guinea fowl typically mate in pairs. 5. They are easy keepers. As active foragers, they find most of what they eat in the form of insects and succulent greens.
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