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Found my 2yo welsummer hen with a swollen foot this today. Is this Bumble foot? Something else? Any suggestions on treatment?

Hi all, I have 2 broody hens that I want to get chicks for. I've done some reading on the subject and my local farm has chicks 1-3 days old. 2 questions: 1. My nest boxes are quite high off the ground and the peeps will not be able to get there. I have some temporary nest boxes that I've...

I have a speckled sussex hen (nearly 2 years old) who for the past 2 nights has not returned to the coop for bedtime. Without fail, all my girls have gone to bed as expected for years and now this one hen is defying her bedtime :-) Same hen. I don't close up until well after dark, so it is...

I am planning to put an electric fence around my garden to keep the groundhogs and rabbits out. I free range my chickens and guineas. Any suggestions for deterring the chickens from the fence or a unit that's good enough for keeping bad critters out but won't be too bad if chickens...

Hi all, I have 10 hens, 4 of which are over a year old and 6 are about 24 weeks old. When my first batch of hens began laying, I only had some plastic bin nesting boxes on the floor of the coop. These worked great and they hens always used them. Then my husband decided to build some nesting...

Hi all, I have bee mn incubating some guinea eggs laid by my flock. I had 3 successful hatches and the keets are doing well. The 3 that followed a few days later appear tonot be able to lift their heads. One we lost the first night -he also appeared to be convulsing- the other two seem...

Questions...help please...X-post with incubating & hatching forum... Hi all, I have 3 female guineas who have been tag-brooding a nest for over a month now. I noticed that all were outside together a little bit ago and decided to go inside to investigate since i haven't been able to get at the...

Hi all, I have 3 female guineas who have been tag-brooding a nest for over a month now. I noticed that all were outside together a little bit ago and decided to go inside to investigate since i haven't been able to get at the nest in weeks...wanted to candle a couple to see if any were...

Hi all, I have a 1-yr old guinea hen that has decided to sit on a small clutch of eggs...luckily they were laid inside the coop so I don't have to worry about her being outside all night. Anyhow, I've been taking most of the eggs (we don't have room for another 20-30 guineas - I have 3 females...

I have 6 pullet peeps that are a little more than 2 months old along with 5 adult hens and 4 adult guineas. The peeps have been housed with the "grownups" for almost a month now and the quarrels have died down and everyone is at least tolerating each other for the most part. However, the...

I have 4 guineas. I know at least 2 are female and one is male. They jury's still out on the 4th. For the first few weeks that they were laying this spring they were laying inside the coop or the run (yay me!). I had been collecting both eggs every day until I read that if all the eggs are...

I have 6 7-wo peeps (welsummer and sspeckled sussex) who have been in the coop for about 10 days. The first week, they were in an enclosure to separate them from my other birds (5 hens and 4 guineas). Since they have had the freedom to leave their enclosure, they have taken to sleeping in my...

Hi all, I have 5 hens who are about 9 months old and 4 guineas almost a year old. I recently introduced 6 new chicks (6wo) to my coop and they have been segregated about 10 days now. I periodically let the peeps out of their in-coop enclosure to learn to interact with the other birds but I...

Hi all, I have 4 guinea fowl that I've had since last August. About 2 weeks ago, I started getting 2 guinea eggs per day on the floor of the coop in random places. Then a few days ago, they started laying in the same spot on the coop floor under an overhang, which is a fine place for them to...

Hi all, I am new to chicken-keeping...don't even have any yet. My husband is currently building our coup. We are looking to keep about 8-10 hens and guineas. Some background: we have some decent acreage in the woods, though our house and surrounding area are fairly clear (I guess we're a...