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OK, this is one of those gross yet funny things that I think my fellow chicken people will appreciate. We have a large enclosed concrete-floor patio outside the front door of our house. I have found that whenever I do a good seasonal sweeping of this porch, the chickens gather up outside the...

This happened a few months ago but I haven't been around much to post. I got a real kick out of it. As you know guineas consider themselves the inspectors of all unusual items in their environment. If they don't like something, they will definitely let you know. I have an old hat. It's...

PeepsCA mentioned a thread with lots of guinea bustle pics but it didn't come up when I searched for "bustle". I never can see them on my guinea hens, to me it looks like all the birds have a bump in the back (and they're not all girls!). Would love to see that thread if somebody knows where...

I posted about a month ago on how happy I was with our mamma who hatched eggs in the coop and was raising her own keets with the flock. I just wanted to give the update. All right, so taking it from the top: 25 eggs 21 hatched Deaths: 5 total to date. 2 were in the first couple days -one was...

I almost hate to post this because whenever I post about how awesome our guineas are, they think up something devilish to do. OK, so our current mama guinea is awesome anyway. Smart enough to nest and hatch 21 babies in the coop, and keep them in the first day, luxuriously laying in the...

Edit: I wrote this twice this morning and I was still being confusing with my price. It's $1 per egg with a six egg minimum as now shown in the title. Sorry all, I must not have had my caffeine yet when I wrote it. These are guinea eggs from a nest that one of our hens has started spending...

PLEASE SEE OTHER SALE, I LOOKED AFTER THE FIRST POST AND DIDN'T SEE IT, SO I POSTED AGAIN. BUT I HAD THE SALES SORTED WRONG, DOH! Mods, please nuke this if you see it. Thank you!

Your guineas let you pet them rather than running to get out of the coop in the morning! And it's not even that cold here compared to other places. It was around 5 above that morning, not counting wind chill.

Just wanted to share this since tis the time of year that people start thinking about heating their waterers. DH & I decided to use those auto battery heater pads last year, like this only not quite as big: Heater We placed one under each 3 gallon metal waterer. Each waterer sits on...

This is kind of a long story but I'll try to keep it short. - We had a broody hen. - She didn't have good luck with her hatch (not her fault). - We bought five babies & snuck them under her at night, two keets and three chicks. - She didn't adopt any of them, kept trying to peck them all, so we...

We are all excited because one of our hens finally went broody! We ordered some hatching eggs and after some minor snafus, we got them and placed them under her today. Come and join me if you're starting eggs around this time! I'm allowed to hang out here even if I only have a "natural"...

I've been using the crazy easy method from the older thread for about four months now. Consistently, I lose about 25% of the eggs to cracking (sometimes full-on rupture with egg exploding out the end into the pot!). I'm lowering them oh-so-carefully into the pot, using a skimmer. I'm talking...

I'm not currently ready to start breeding chickens, but it's something I have thought about as a possibility over the next couple of years. I'm wondering if any of you breeders can give me some generalized guidance on this question. Assuming I start with a good line of chickens from a...

I've complained here before that every time I post here about some good behavior by my guineas, they immediately turn around and do the opposite. I think they are spying on my BYC usage. I post they don't roost outside...two of them fly up into a tree that evening. I post that they lay eggs in...

So, we have a few keets this summer, and I have Purina flock raiser out for them, free choice. Our hens and adult guineas are absolutely stuffing themselves on it too. Our birds free range and always have layer pellets (Purina also) & oyster shell available as well. I've been using the...

This is about the new keets in my other thread, I thought someone might find this helpful. So momma hatched her keets and was parked outside for the night, away from the shelter we had built over the nest. We knew she likely wouldn't make it, so here's what we did to move her, in case it...

All right, I've been afraid to post because every time I post something nice about my guineas, they turn around and do the opposite. I post that they all sleep in the coop at night, the next evening three of them won't come out of the tree. I post that they've quieted down in their second...

So, we have a screened porch with a concrete floor on the front of our house. It's just above ground level, so when there's a heavy rain, the earthworms crawl up...and then of course they die & shrivel up. This weekend I did my full-on porch washdown for the official start of summer, and...

KP is a Speckled Sussex rooster about 13 months old. The picture is from when he was about 10 months. He's a handsome fellow and good with his girls. His feathering seems to be pretty good for a hatchery bird. We were hoping to keep him to breed with our SS hen, but he has too much...

I have a chicken with a very strange bump over her eye. I posted it here , with pics, a few months ago. We did antibiotics as suggested in that thread, but no change. Since then, we've just left her to be a chicken. She has been fine. She eats, she drinks, she lays eggs, nobody bothers her...