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    Guinea in search of harem in eastern West Virginia

    Big, strong, handsome silver-gray male guinea fowl in search of a flock to lord over and protect. If you have guineas, you already know that he will protect you from ticks and bugs as well, and sound the alert against anything he thinks is dangerous. If you have laying hens only, he'd be a...
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    Leaving ducks over the weekend... how?

    The cats I can leave with a bowl of food and a bowl of water. The sheep I can leave with a fresh pasture or a hamper of hay and a big bucket of water. The guineas I can leave with a feeder and a waterer. But the ducks manage to reduce their water within minutes to a muddy residue... even if...
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    plastic tote duckling brooder ventilation question

    I'm brooding four new Khaki Campbell ducklings in a plastic tote set next to a radiator for heat, moved further from or closer to the radiator according to thermometer readings and duckling behavior. Right now the lid is just set loosely on the tote, propped up an inch or so by a stick of wood...
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    Hi! I have two and a half guinea hens and two sheep on roughly an acre in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. (One guinea hen, Sergeant Fury, is half blind and needs to be confined so that the other two don't kill her.) I have had awful luck with French Guinea fowl over the last three...
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