Re: Guinea hens
- To: <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
- Subject: Re: Guinea hens
- From: "* C* <m*@neo.lrun.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 11:01:38 -0500
Hi again! it's Michael
Oh yea Mike! Chickens and ducks are great bug eaters - don't have any
experience with Guineas but what they're just a smaller version right?. My
sister uses a contraption I made her called a chicken tractor, like a small
dog house on wheels with a long chicken wire run attached. You move this
around your garden and they weed, eat bugs and fertilize, then you plant.
or you send the contraption down the rows between the crops. And then you
have eggs for breakfast.
Organic Magazine ran an article this past summer about ducks in the garden.
To work in a pumpkin patch, which I think is a great!!! idea, you'd have to
enclose the entire patch or they'd split or they'd become dog food or road
pancakes. Marv should take note of your idea as he's already enclosed his
patch.
For Keeps,
Michael in Akron
mcohill@neo.lrun.com
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> From: Mike Nepereny <MikeN@optiosoftware.com>
> To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
> Subject: Guinea hens
> Date: Monday, December 15, 1997 8:48 AM
>
> I heard somewhere ( I think it was on this mailing list) that someone
> had let Guinea hens roam their pumpkin patch in search of bugs. Does
> this ring a bell? I'd like to hear from anyone familiar with this.
> Squash bugs are a big problem down here in Atlanta and I hate to keep
> flooding the patch with all kinds of pesticides.
>
> Mike
>
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