Guinea fowl

The guineas have finally found their way to the inn. We keep six guinea fowl in the coop next to the llamas. Because they are a little noisy, we wanted them to be away from the inn a bit. We acquired the guinea fowl chicks about he same time as the chickens, but we don't house them together.

The reasons to keep guinea fowl are 1) they are cool, 2) they eat bugs in the garden without scratching and ruining the plants, 3) they clean up bugs around the llama dung piles and 4) they also eat ticks. Gotta love that.

Today, as you can see, they were all over the grounds of the inn. Over the past few weeks since they've been free ranging, they've gone across the shoreline highway (we had to stop traffic to get them back), and they've gone into the spring and woods where I'm sure they are finding lots of good bugs to eat.

Well today they made their way onto the inn property, and even seemed to want to get into the new Wine Bar[n]. Apparently they're anxious for it to open too.

-- John