I hate ticks. The guineas are tick eating machines but I was not happy to get another tick bite that turned ugly again. I told my wife I had been spoiling the birds with to many treats... she pointed out that they don't wander more than a few hundred yards from the house and we do.
It's probably pretty tick free close by.... Two down sides to guineas though, they are LOUD and they dig big pits in the yard to dust bath in.... I hate ticks way more than holes in the yard though.
