They got pretty skittish after a few generations, thick fir and cedar forest all around they'd pull the Houdini pretty quick when they wanted to. The odd one did get taken but the rest would scatter far and wide in a hurry.
My dad always told me they were hard to hunt cause they’re smart as whip. And if you shot or trapped them in a certain spot you’d probably never see them there again.
We have them now and have had them in the past. For a farm they are great and they really do reduce the tick population.
In regard to the "smart as a whip". I sprayed, disced, and sowed 20 acres that surround our house a few years back. We had a fair sized flock of guinea then. They started dust bathing all over the fresh disk ground....it burned me up so I grabbed the M2 and started killing. The first 3 or were easy. The next several were on the wing. I couldn't get within a 100 yards of the last couple that were left. They learned FAST and I never got near them again. They got to live out their days.
