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Hi - been away but got a very important question for you: one of my Guinea hens has huge, swollen feet - both feet - just saw it.... soaked in betadine water and was ready to bandage but I did not see any cuts! I saw one small cut maybe on top of one nail on one foot, but I don't think that is...

I am so sorry this happened to you! I totally understand the worry and the feeling that no amount of effort is too much to protect these guys! They are so vulnerable and if we don't step in they get so terribly hurt / killed so easily. When one is gone it leaves a hole in our hearts. They are...

Thank you so much, Callender Girl, for the thoughtful reply! It means a lot! Not many people in my life understand this, but you and some on this forum sure do! Seven of my guys are 10 years old now, five are 9 years old, etc. and we have been through a lot (baby training, feather mites...

So you can protect the birds from the eagle? I am afraid I would not be able to do much since our property is hilly and convoluted so I may not be able to be at all places at once and the Guineas usually split up in groups. Even if you see it, how do you keep it from grabbing a bird?

Yeah - it is just that I did not get the Guineas to keep them inside all the time - they usually range on 4 acres and pick ticks and everything else. Today I cut them some grass since they have been in for over a week and getting tired of just millet and meal worms and they squealed for the...

Not my feathered friends of 10 years that I have cared for morning and night every day during that time!

OMG, you guys! I feel like my Guinea dream is over! :( I lost two (!) of my birds Thursday a week ago and this was after I saw a bald eagle 30' over my car on the road home, about half a mile from my house the week before that. S/he was carrying a squirrel in the claws and dropped it and I...

Thanks, DobieLover! I got the panels. One less worry in my life. Thank you!

I use hardwire cloth and the corrugated roofing material you seem to have but mine is cemented in the ground and skirted to prevent/discourage predators from digging under. I got the top closed as well. We have a lot of predators and I lost two baby birds to a snake that got in anyway but have...

So I wanted to find some clear (roofing, I guess) panels to put in front of run wire walls to shield the birds from winter winds - instead of stapeling on clear feed sacks I collected - to have something more permanent I could take down in summer and re-use next winter etc. and avoid my 2x4s...

I am on a vegan diet since age 52! For the animals! Never again supporting factory farming! (If I can do it, so can you.) Here is my dessert for Thanksgiving, egg and dairy free: Pumpkin Spice Bunt Cake. I use pumpkin instead of sweet potato. Queen of substitutions here. :lau

Thanks, sloanbychoice. Yeah, the dog has a kennel attached to the run, but I thought about leaving him out until it dissipates a bit - I think I will try it - I am desperate. Still, the mice a animals, too. I try to do what I can to relocate and repell and not torture them! They have families...

Sorry, I didn't read all the posts just wnated to reply real quick - yes, I had a hoarse guinea and she was really sick - Pinchy - we threw all we could at her - gapeworm wormer was one thing, using the goat wormer (I forgot what it is called now but can look it up if you need me to - just did...

Hi All, Sorry I have been so absent. Grieving and preoccupied. Have a huge mouse problem and now snakes - just learned we also have water moccasins (in addition to copper heads) - my coop and run reek of mouse urine/smell/stink - mostly the run - I need to clean it out as much as possible and...

Oh sorry about your dog! At first blush I would say no since many parasites are specific to species but I am not sure about heartworm at all.

This is interesting - seems like the sound does not work - but peppermint does.... I have used this and it seemed to work but getting the oil is less expensive. The mint smell from the Mouse Magic repellent almost gives you a head ache if you put it in your bedroom at first, it is so...

This does not really solve the problem but I can share a goofey story: lifted a board in the run and found a nest under it. 6 pink mice with eyes still closed. Sorry, but have a heart! You cannot kill babies like that. But six more mice!!!!!! I put the board back and walked away. Hm. Then it...

Ugh! Yeah, I was also wondering that: how long would it take before one of my birds would be injured (or starved to death) - my birds do not let each other eat in peace - come to think of it I should make sure all drink enough. Totally agree with you!

don't have much time to write tonight - tired - but be careful with the green blocks: I think it killed my cat to eat mice that were poisoned!

Thank you all soooo much!!! Yes, I have called an exterminator and he has been here twice and said the snake would be no problem to catch but the mice is a different story since I do not want to use poison: I think my kitty died eating a poisoned mouse of two. We had an exterminator before we...