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5 days ago I noticed one of my keets hunching its head into it's body, with fluffy feathers. I brought it inside, popped it into a crate, set it up with food and water, and started watching for signs of what was wrong. Crop is fine, keet eats and drinks and poops normally. Keet has been inside...

Hatched toward the end of June, all babies are fine and happy except all of a sudden one is hunchy and fluffy-feathered. I've had a bunch of appointments this week so haven't handled them, just making sure food is full and water is full and clean. In these past several days this baby has gotten...

I keep my chickens locked up in bad weather - rain or any other precipitation, or really cold weather. Will guineas need to stay in during bad weather as well, or will they want to go out? Thank you

This baby is going on 3 weeks old. He/she likes to sit on his/her feet while the other keets are popping around but only for the last few days. He preens and stands up to eat or drink but it takes him all day to fill his crop while the others are full within 45 min of me turning the light on and...

I love these little guys!! They are so affectionate and sweet and funny. I have their cage (large dog crate + flight cage ziptied together) in my living room, and they USED to settle and snuggle up with the brooder heating pad thingie I put in there, now at going-on-3-weeks they settle in the...

OK so I looovvee my little keets!! Love love love! But... I'm wondering if there might be something wrong with their little brains. I started with a chick waterer - the kind with a jar and a tray below that autofills. Which instantly became gross as soon as I put it in. So I put the drinker in a...

I've never raised baby guineas before.. or newborn chicks of any kind. I've bought feed store chicks, and I've had a broody hen raise chicks, but in this case, my broody hen rejected the babies - attacking them whenever they'd poke their heads out from under her, throwing them to the side of the...

I'm thinking about getting a batch of these, can anyone recommend a reputable hatchery etc that sells hatching eggs?

1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.) Americana (Tractor Supply variety) 5 yrs old Norm weight 2) What is the behavior, exactly. Was attacked by a raptor of some huge kind (heard flapping, scraping on roof, our dog somehow...

I am a totally inexperienced chicken mama... Got a few babies from a friend last year, and have raised them up - 2 are boys and 3 are girls. The boys, as they got older, have gotten increasingly.... demanding... of the girls' attentions, and I said - well, I think I should get more girls. So I...

So I bought 10 juvenile Production Red hens, that are said to be approximately a month from laying age.. they all seemed fine, but when I got home and got a closer look, I found that 3 of them have broken top-beaks and 2 of them have very short top beaks - maybe broken a long time ago, and...