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Dont worry about the pigmys let them do their job in claering brush if they still have that instict within them.Jennifer dont go to a health food store..use the real thing. In ref to the chickens..Dont throw food away from your kitchen.They love vegatables and fruit.

we have really cut down on trash with the goats,  they love our left over veggies and fruits, and have done wonders with briar and bramble around the back fence.

we have crushed up garlic in a container overnight and are going to start testing it on the dogs tommorrow.  I also found this website that  talks about tick control and guineas if everyone else wants to read it.

http://www.lymediseasepa.com/

thank you for everyone's response.  I was telling my mother about guinea's but it takes a few more people saying the same thing to convince her.  I don't want to continue blasting my property with chemicals if I don't have to,  and the chemicals obviously aren't working anyway. I got real sick over all the pesticides,  I don't want it to affect my dogs too.  I have blisters on top of blisters on my hands, I have little blood spots all over my legs.  and before I started taking benadryl and cortizone shots, I couldn't even stand my clothes touching me.  My skin is soo sensitive too, I couldn't even stand the have lotion on.

thanks again for everyones responses.

Jennifer

I also found this stuff.  anyone ever hear of it?

http://www.mosquitobarrier.com/index.html

For the chickens, you won't need to get scratch (grit) if they are free ranging during the day, they will pick up their own grit.   Do get a bag of oyster shell for calcium when they start laying.  The chickens will eat most table scraps, including meat, you give them.  They don't like citrus, at least none of mine ever did.

Be sure you lock up the chickens at night, the Guineas will roost on trees, fences, or buildings after they mature.  If you are raising chickens for eggs, when they free range, they can pick their own places to lay, not always where you want or can find.......  If you want them to "free range" and help with bugs, you may want to consider a chicken tractor, basically a pen on wheels.  Here's a link to a web site with a huge variety of sizes and shapes, be sure to give them shade.

http://home.centurytel.net/thecitychicken/tractors.html

McMurray's also has some VERY nice ones that can give you more ideas.

http://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/category/cages.html

If you do get turkeys, look for the heritage breeds, smaller and more agile.  Bourben Reds, Royal Palms, Standard Bronze.  Most of the turkeys being sold in feed stores are the broadbreasted bronze or Giant white vareity and are not meant for raising beyond a very few months.  And totally helpless if faced with any predator.  Even the heritage breeds can be hammered by predators but at least can maybe get away..........  Best to lock them up in a secure place at night also.

With all the chemicals you have now applied to the land, you will need to be careful when you start letting the fowl out, give the already applied chemicals a chance to disipate and don't apply any new in areas the bird (or goats) will be.

Fencing deters very few wild animals.  Unless you have a 6-foot tall chain link with an additional 18-inches buried.  A coyote will climb or dig under faster then you can imagine.  I know, and it's ugly.  Most deer fencing is at least 8 feet, fox and raccoons can get through or over most anything.  Weasels, nothing stops weasals.....

Good luck, and enjoy the fresh eggs.  You'll never get store bought again.......

This really is a great thread..It should continue. Thanks for the heads up about the heritage breeds of turkeys.I want a couple to free-range with my horses and spread their droppings haha so the sun can bake down a breeding ground of bad insects..and inturn the ground is naturally fertilized.Jennifer I havent looked at the websites that you gave yet.Thank you for sharing.Mosquito's are a very deep subject.For the past two years I havent torn down any Banana Spider web and I havent been having a problem with the Mosquito's as so many do.In ref to your skin with the using of pesticides etc.Buy some castor oil.You will find it in the "Laxative" area at a store.Rub some of that on your skin.Forget the smell of it.   In ref to buying oyster shell for the chickens.It depends upon what area you live in and if it is still available at a feed store. Anyone ever heard of Calf Manna? It is good for all stock. Just as well as Clovite...