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We free-range our guinea fowl, and yesterday found a nest my mum's garden with about 15~25 eggs in it. Well, I went out there this morning, and yep, the guinea fowl is sitting on it and has been for ages. What I'm worried about is a fox getting in and killing her at night. She is in a very...

Hmmm alright thank you, that makes it easier :) altgough it has just turned to Spring here in Australia, and then to Summer in December, so the egg hunting begins... :)

Hi there, My parent's have guinea fowl and I think they're just starting to lay cause I found a triangular shaped egg in the middle of the grass (that looked like it didn't realize it was laying, like our chicken pullets did when they first started). We free-range ours all the time. I've...

Weird story! I just went and checked mine, three already hatched yesterday and another was on the way this morning. I worked all day, and just got home this afternoon to find the hen had gotten off the nest and a chick had half-pipped it's way through, though the membrane was still intact. I...

What's with the weird font's and stuff? All italics, bold :3 Anyway, I was pretty shocked when I went to check on my Japanese Bantams, and three of the eggs had pipped! I wasn't expecting them to hatch until Tuesday, so that's pretty exciting. I must have misjudged when she started to sit. I...

Alright, thanks for your help! :) I wasn't sure if you could somehow trick a duck into thinking it was a chicken or something :)

Hi there, I'm thinking about getting ducks especially to get duck eggs to sell... there is plenty of woman in our community who love baking, and would love to get their hands on some duck eggs. I currently have chickens, would it be alright if I just get one or two ducks and pen them together...

Three of my chooks went broody all on the same day, so we're all expecting on the 9th October (exactly one week away)! My japanese bantam is sitting on 6 eggs (was seven, but she's a small little thing and they keep coming out from underneath her), my Silkie is sitting on 9, and my Light Sussex...

I recently went down to my cousin's place and saw the chickens I took down two months ago (the ones which I originally posted about). These are the chicks, born in June, a week or so after they hatched. And this is how big they are now! The mothers were ISA brown hens (a red sex link)...

Hey! Thank's for your help! We've let ours free-range now, and they've pretty much returned to wild state haha, so it's hard to get them to go into the coop :( they've no doubt been laying somewhere, but as to where... I have no clue. I'm waiting for one of them to go broody and then I'll be...

Hahaha! That's funny. He's gotten better now, sounds more like a rooster and less of a dog :)

Can I join in? I'm a little late but... three hens have gone broody simultaneously! :D I have a Silkie hen which is sitting on 9 Silkie eggs (she has laid herself :D), a Japanese bantam which is sitting on 6 of her own eggs, and a 4 year old Light Sussex hen. She is just sitting on the nest...

He is quite young, although I am not sure how long ago he started crowing, but it sounds kinda like a distant dog howling. He is a Silkie rooster. Will it likely get better into a proper sounding crow over the next few weeks? Thanks

anyone?

Hi! I have 6 guineas, 2 male, 4 female (I think.. haha, well I know theres at least 3 females anyway) and usually I keep them in with my other laying chickens. It's starting to come onto spring and I still can't find any guinea eggs (I spent a little bit of my afternoon searching through long...