I HATE GUINEA HENS (or guinea fowls)

I live across the street from a buffalo farm, and the farmer has these stupid annoying birds called Guinea Hens or Guinea fowls, or sometimes commonly referred to as "nature's car alarm." Here I am chasing them away from my house. You can hear how loud and annoying they are. The farmer said they are good for eating fleas off of buffalo and getting me up early.
Pic of one upclose on wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Guinea_fowl.jpg

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• guina
• hens
• guineafowl
• guinea
• fowl
• bird

[Irishwren]

We have a guinea hen who roams around our suburban neighborhood but he likes to come to my house for twice a day bread and cat food. He sleeps in the oak tree in the winter and the pine tree in the summer. I check on him and he's always on the same branch. He eats with the cats from the same bowl and sits around with them. I love to hear him. Have not seen a mole cricket on my lawn since he arrived! I think of him as a community helper...

[sweber3737]

We have them and they make great alarm birds. Our dogs take the cue from them. When the guinea's go off the dogs run to see what's going on. We haven't seen a tick on our animals since we've had guinea's.

[ldytutor]

My neighbor has over 60 of them trying living with that, they R making noise all night long and they eat my chicken feed & grass on our farm. Annoying as heck.

[md991free]

They're also very delicious.

[sidewindermack]

No one can ever sneak up on you if you have a flock of Guineas in your yard! They are a natural burgular alarm! I keep four of them in my house. They roost on the lamps!

[CaIIMeSAND]

I raise them and can say from experience that I hate the females. The males are cool enough, make little noise and hang out with the hens. The females, on the other hand, are just strait annoying. Hang around winging always. The males tend to chase them away - which is odd - and neither gender bother the flies on the yard. Easy pickings, but they prefer the hen feed which is easier. Pullets (poultry) do far better on insect patrol. God I hate female Guineas. They are ruining my life.

[Ajvarbog]

My uncle had those God oh God how I hated them.

[lucariojr]

Oh, but they're fun to chase. ;]

[PandorasGlocks]

I do not think my neighbor likes them either!

[paraplanebelle]

I have a pet guinea thats been here for four years now. They are survivors.

[donjuandonjuan]

yes they will wake you up in the morning

yes they are natures perfect alarm system

yes they do make alot of racket

yes they can be raised like dogs

[yourroaddog]

eat them!

[mondovila]

if you raise them from babies, i doubt you'll hate ever hate them. they're awesome because they get rid of deer ticks, bugs, crickets, snakes (including rattlers), and they are great watch dogs alerting you of any trouble. and they're so cute when they scream "take a break", "don't look back", "i want beer". i speak guinea so i should know. hehe.

[Haku1990]

i think they are really cute and nice to have they eat all kinds of bugs ^^

[jth90c]

They eat all sorts of insects and other pests, and don't do anything destructive to your property, besides make that racket.

Better than geese, any day.

[zigyzigy13]

kill them

i also hate those bastards

its roaming around my property

[salula528]

I think they're rather charming myself. XD