For Victoria Day I bought the BEST treat! A Steam Punk Bronze annodised collector's VapCap of XL size from
@stardustsailor . I am very very excited! The mp is not just a beautifully sculpted mp. It can also be used to set a CCD screen.
Hopefully it will travel quickly through the Postal channels as I await its arrival with building anticipation.
I think that this will be the last Vapcap to complete my collection. When it arrives my life will be complete.
This is the first I've heard of them. All I've done for the past 6 months is bush work which as mentioned I stopped doing cuz the ticks. I'm not sure hens would make a difference with all the neighbouring forests.
I was up around your area in March. I'm familiar with the bramble that occupies the forest on Vancouver Island. The undergrowth is certainly thicker than in my forest.
Guineas originated in South Africa. A Vineyard close by uses them to keep the bugs off their vines successfully. But when I asked my local feed store why they don't offer Guineas in the fowl brochure, they told me that the people that order chicks, order them for meat birds of for their eggs. That the people around here don't yet know that Guineas can be effectively used as land management, but that will change in time.
I think that the Guineas will go where the bugs are but will surely keep the area around the tree line clear if not actually forage in the forest as well. I will let you know how they behave around my forest.
In the states they seem to take Lyme disease a little more serious. Up here they are hesitant to give any meds for treatment. My best friend has had it for a year and a friend of a friend has had it for 5 and it's literally killing him.
For some reason, many Doctors here will not acknowledge Lyme disease. But that too seems to be changing. Here if you go to emergency with an imbeded tick, they will now routinely give you antibiotics. I notice now that my Dr has a brochure displayed at her office listing things you can do to repel ticks. Things like plant evergreens, lay perimeter paths of cedar chips, dressing in light colored clothes, socks over pants etc. But some of these approaches are not so applicable to forested land. I'm hoping that Guineas will contribute to the solution.
Won't they just go off to other properties?
Lots of eagles preditors here too.
They will definitely roam farther than free range chickens. I'm hoping, that with coop training, they won't roam too far. But I don't care as long as they make their way to their coop and safety each night. As long as they can spend their days eating ticks, somewhere not too terribly far away, I will consider them a success.
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Sweet pup.
I give it 2 months, max.
