Everyone repeats the same figure: a guinea fowl eats 4,000 ticks a day. That number is completely made up — but the truth about this bird is actually better than the myth. In this video I break down exactly what the helmeted guinea fowl really does on a working homestead, what nobody tells you about the winter months that quietly wipes out most first-year flocks, and how a small mob of these birds can pull your tick load down, guard your property line, and knock a serious chunk off your feed bill from April through October.

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📚 RESEARCH CITED
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• Duffy, Downer & Brinkley (1992) — Wilson Bulletin, Suffolk County study
• Ostfeld et al. (2006) — nymphal tick and Lyme disease impact
• White et al. (2024) — central Virginia mark-recapture study
• Şekercioğlu (2013) — Turkey / Hyalomma marginatum / CCHF program
• Penn State Extension — biocontrol of ticks
• Grovertown Fruit Farm (Indiana) — 90-acre operational case study
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