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I bought 12 guinea keets last weekend. All was going well until I noticed one laying on its side with its legs curled underneath it. Now, it runs around using its wings and the hocks of its legs. I have been giving oral doses of Vitamin B2 supplement, but there has been no visible change. What...

We've had a rainy Summer, with temps about 75-90* her four weeks. Yes she was on them ALL the time.

She lays fine, they just don't hatch. I've got two males, and they take turns in the pen, so I know one has to "work". Some of the rotten eggs I nursed had chicks in them, just not formed yet. She'd been sitting on them for 6 weeks, so I know they weren't gonna hatch.

We have set eggs twice this year and none of them have hatched. I heard that a turkey's first year of laying eggs (which this is), they won't hatch. Is this true and why we're not getting any babies?

What breed?

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Not if you make good income off of them! Lol ;)

So we have 10 guineas that run freely. We don't have a tick on the place.......We have some pole bean crops in the yard. They are oft down there picking around. There are always some leaves with holes in them. Are they eating them or are they eating the bugs that might be on them? Thanks!

mmmmmmm........Do you have snapping turtles in that area? They'll eat your babies sure as the world. If you want them in the lake, though, you can make a wire corral from your pen to the lake and run some wire a ways into the lake. Like wire on both sides, and under the water so that the turtles...

Thank you! It certainly is. Hey, I don't guess you know of any Steinsdoerfer family up there in Michigan, do you?

My my. Where to begin. Well I guess I will start with the grandparents. My Mammaw and Papaw Jackson began this farm in the 1950's. They had 4 children and began a journey they could look back on and call success. They were born and raised poor in 1931. Just in the midst of the depression. But...

Average hen is 5-6 months old.

After a while you'll hatch out another rooster. If this fails, you can get another one. In-breeding is not a problem with chickens though.

Thank you!

Sorry, I meant turkeys, not chickens. But the same for them too. LOL