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Thank you all. The mystery may be solved! We will continue to watch it, but we agree that it LOOKS like a white guinea.

I've come to that conclusion. But what is it?!

Friends found it as a yellow fluffy chick, but as it feathers out, it doesn't look like any chicken I've ever had.

I have a rir hen; red and swollen, not laying, walking like a penguin, egg bound right? Well doing an exam, I do not feel an egg! I gently inserted a lubed rubber gloved finger straight back and felt nothing firm at all! Could she have another problem that looks like egg bound?

Well one of them anyway. Haven't noticed much from the other egg. Now if this one will just hang on.

Thanks. I knew it was somewhere around 100. One of them has hatched already , right in my lap!

Me and my son worked to put up an electric net to protect our guinea from an opossum that was seen last night. Just got in the house and I heard her squawking. We went out and checked and Justin yelled "A SNAKE!",there was a big black snake curled around the nest snacking on her eggs! I grabbed...

Coming out of the winter, my Boar and some of my Spanish goat's ears just look awful. They are chapped and dry and look almost painful. I put vasoline on one of the tame ones, but can't really tell if it is doing any good. Is it just the weather or somethihg else? Anyone else have this...

Thanks for all the input! I will get a ceramic element for next season. As for cold hardy breeds, I have NO idea what I have. We got the eggs from friends at church and hatched them (kind of a kids homeschool project) only 4 survived and they are all different. OH! I cant forget the two...

Isn't 9 and 10 degrees cold enough to need heat?

That would be great! Thanks.

Yes. I thought that was supposed to disturb them less.

Its been below freezing here off and on this past month. So the heat lamp is a must, but MAN my guineas squawk all night and the roosters crow at all hours Any suggestions?

I went out and looked, but no eggs. It is all trampled down back there though so they spend a lot of time in there. They are right at 16 weeks old, could they be getting broody? These are my first chickens, so I haven't seen all the behaviors yet.

My chickens free range durring the day and return to the tractor/coop at nite. They have become attached to a stand of bushes. One has been seen less and less during the day and has taken longer to come in than the others. Last nite I had to go out with a flashlight and get her! I didn't think...

I had some scraps and thought it might be a treat for them, but then I remembered the seeds have cyanide in them! :o

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We had 4 chicks born the first of July. All different types and we thought all hens. One of them started developing a bigger comb and its tail seemed to stick up a little more. But I told the kids we wouldn't know for sure untill we heard it crow. Guess what I heard this morning?!! It was more...

Cool I'll check it out!

OK, OK, I may have offended some of you when I accused my chickens of being stupid. Perhaps that was a little harsh. I was just aggravated, I really, really do like my chickens. I was outside the other day and I saw one of them jump up on the roost and I thought YEAH they found it!! But just...