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Im getting guinea keets for the first time tomorrow they will be just a couple days old when I get them but I am wondering, should I house them with my chickens, with my turkeys, or build them a separate coop? they will be free range during the day..i am only getting three so the work involved...

Ok so right now I have 3 breeds of hens in with 2 breeds of roosters...All eggs are fertile but if I hatch them there is only a chance I get full blooded chicks...If I separate my say barred rock hens with rir rooster so that I can hatch black sex links, how long will it take before the eggs are...

I am cleaning out the home of someone who passed away and have come across tons of expired canned goods, now I know technically they are still safe for a while after the date on the can but I'm not sure how far passed the date they are safe, I'm wondering would it be okay to feed any of it to...

im not sure if im posting this in the right spot or not but im looking for advice on how old chicks should be before being introduced to the rest of the flock and how to go about it. i have 12 adults in the coop and run area along w a few ducks my babies are almost six weeks old and they are in...

i just learned about growing and feeding fodder for livestock. im very intrigued and have been researching online all night! i have chickens ducks rabbits and dairy goats and from what im seeing i can feed it to all my animals which is great! and from what im reading a fifty pound bag of barley...

i just hatched some of my own eggs rir and br my roo is rir so i ended up w some rir and some black sex link. i will keep the blacks to aadd a variety to my flock but im already planning ahead for next year i think im going to use my moms eggs for hatching to again add variety to my flock. she...

right now i have 3 khaki campbells two female one male in with my twelve chickens. they get along fine and have plenty of room in the pen and house. how and when should i indroduce the four ducklings i have? right now theyrr in a crate in the pen durring the day and in a crate in the house at...

I am new to incubating first i tried duck eggs i put 14 of my own khaki campbell eggd in a lg still air incubator all looked great right up til lockdown. temps and himidity were acurate. only seven hatched the other seven died durring lockdown. the ones that did hatch did not even start to pip...

ok so i have 11 hens 5 rir 6 br. i got them from a hatchery. one egg every day is very very dark compares to the rest and i always wondered why this was well tonight i was searching around online and happened to read something about how cuckoo marans are known for theyre dark eggs. i looked up a...

im on day 17 hatching chicken eggs they are due to go intp lockdown tomorrow when i went to turn them this morningsome of them were already starting to wiggle...should i still turn them today or lock them down a day early?

my ducklings finally hatched yesterday they all hatches on their own. three of them have a leg that is bent. it is bent as if they were laying almost as if it is stiff from being in the shell but they cannot straighten them and im not sure what to do other than this they seem happy and healthy...

i have three ducklings that hatched yeaterday theyre legs are bent as if they are holding it up under them they do not straighten they are hobling around eating drinking chirping bright eyed what can i do?

i have 3 ducklings thay were born yesterday that have bum legs they are bent so the foot isat the front of thw duck one was deff born this way as he couldnt get up in the incubator at first i thought it was a neck problem until closer inspection. the other two im not sure if they were born this...

is it ok to take duckligs out of the incubator when mostly dry and put under heat lamp to finish drying? they keep bumping into the heating element in the incubator and im afraid they will get burnt the hatch is over so humidity loss isnt an issue

i have a duckling who just finally made it out its first pip was wens morning at 930 so its been 50some odd hours i honestly didnt think he was even going to make it out he was this first to pip then he continued to make his hole bigger but never really zipped until today and that was very slow...

one of my duck eggs all of a sudden had a brownish blotch exactly where the airsac should be it has now turned a purplish color. theyre in lockdown so i havent toucjed the ehg it just happened today is this.blood? it forst happened this morning and after i noticed it i sat and starred at the...

i have 12 khaki campbell eggs in the incubator im almost startig day 30 no pips yet but lots of tapping wiggling and peeping. i just checked a minute ago and one of my eggs looks almost stained where the airsac should be could this be blood? or just the duckling in that part of the egg? this is...

so with two hours left until day 29comes to an official end i think there is finally progress! not one pip yet but i can hear tap tap tapping all over the place in there like a lil elf workshop haha. one egg has a dark spot on it i thought at first was a pip but as i shinnes a light thru the...

today is day 28 i have 12 khaki campbell eggs in my incubator. i stopeed turning them and raised the humidy a few days ago (i had to keep both vent holes half covered tho in order to get the humidity to rise) and this morning when i woke up the humidity is starting to drop a bit. should i open...

as the hatch day draws near (somewhere around four to six days from now.) i have been checking on "mama" i couple times a day. i tried candling her eggs a few days ago i thought all was well since i could mostly see a dark shadow. theyre brown eggs so i havent had much luck trying to candle.this...