Guinea fowl are basically wild ancestor of chickens; the only problem is they make too much freaking noise, LOL!
I am waiting to get chickens again, until I have a suitable arrangement set up, i.e. raccoon proof. Had 25 of 25 chickens get pulled through chicken wire by raccoons.
My lack of amusement led to 5 raccoons meeting their end by crossbow bolts. Didn’t see a single raccoon after that for 6 months.
Did you hunt them at night, with bait or trap? Curious because I have a furtaker license in my state and have a lot of nocturnal predators (based on tracks), but the only time I have actually seen them is sitting out at night with night vision. My NV binoculars are okay but it's not something I can mount, so I'm curious how people do this. I guess a flashlight would work, but that would spook them, and I couldn't use a bow at the same time.
[[the only problem is they make too much freaking noise, LOL!]]
Ye- they are loud and noisy- they do supposedly make good ‘watch fouls’ alerting to any disturbance-
[[Had 25 of 25 chickens get pulled through chicken wire by raccoons.]]
Our neighbor got a few chickens two years ago- all died but one- it refuses to go in it’s coop- and roosts in a tree- somehow it’s survived for two years- soemthign did get ahold of it, and it lost a lot of feathers- but it survived- and is doing well now-
Two weeks ago i heard my first racoon sounds (When they really get going- they make soem really wierd noises)
it sounded like 5 different animals- First like a dog- barking- then it changed to sound like monkeys- then it growled and you would have swore it was a cougar if you didn’t know what was making the noise, then it sounded like two pigs fighting- then it completely changed it’s sound to more like a raccoon chitterign away
It was wierd- and had I heard it after dark in the woods- I’da been freaked out not knowing what it was lol- I almost began to believe in chupacabra at that point lol