Posts by elevan

If you haven't been over to BackyardHerds recently, you should go check out some of the great new things going on over there on our sister site!   New Buy Sell Trade System   Goat Notes eBook   Merchandise...

Some important reading for goats: Recommended Reading for Goats http://www.backyardherds.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=13778 So you bought a baby goat….Now...

I decided to use guinea eggs for crafts this year.  My current project is hand blown and carved guinea egg ornaments.   I'm curious what everyone else may do with their eggs (other than eat or hatch...

Thank you Cyn for everything that you've done for BYC and it's members.  Thank you for advice that you've given me in the past.

My chickens and guineas share a coop.

Just an update (pulled from my journal on BYH, each post separated by *):     She perked up so much that I took her back out to her adoptive mama hen. While I was out there I checked on the guinea eggs under the...

The little one that was struggling is now back out with her chicken mama.  She perked up so much in just a few hours.   I think the main purpose of the nest invasion was to make the keets food for the ants young as the...

Yesterday -    Well we have more guinea keets.  The guinea hen's eggs that were behind the house hatched today.  I sent K out to feed the pig and she came running in to say that the guinea was in the field with...

Our Salmon Faverolle hen sat on and hatched 11 guinea keets. Then a Barnevelder hen sat and hatched 16 keets.  And now we have a guinea hen setting on a nest next to the house.  She probably has 25-30 eggs on that...

If you are going to vaccinate then you need to start with an initial dose - give a booster in 3-4 weeks - then a booster every year.   Some folks do give boosters semi-annually but it's not entirely necessary.  But an...