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Hello everyone! It’s been a while but I’m back! I live on 16 acres and officially got my fiancée bitten by the poultry bug! We are very interested in building new coops for some breeding groups of several different varieties, and would love some ideas and inspiration! Share away! 😊

Hello! I ordered my first auto-sexers, and the order included 2 male Bielefelders and 6 straight run Cream Legbars. I got lucky in that there are definitely 4 female legbars, but now I’m stuck on how to figure out who is who of the boys! Any help would be greatly appreciated... here they are...

Hi friends, it's been a while! I'm having my first hatch in a few years and came home last night to a surprise keet in the incubator. Last night was supposed to be lock down but one was out and three were pipped when I got home from dinner with family. I had not had a chance to up humidity...

A couple hours ago I discovered a 6 day old Guinea keet had a thread/string wrapped around its tongue. The string was pretty far back, and the front part of the tongue is clearly dead/dying, so I'm curious about amputating the dead part? I ended up cutting the length of the string off, but it is...

Hey everyone! This is my second hatch of the year and it's starting a couple days early. These are baby guinea keets, if you're interested in watching them hatch, here's a link: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/live-hatching---keet-cam Enjoy!

My keet has been sitting in a sling/chair for the majority of the past 3 days and I've had a bendy-straw-cast on his leg for that time, so far, the tendon stays where it should be when the leg is stretched without the cast on, but as soon as the hock bends, the tendon slips off. Should I just...

This keet has been in a sling/chair for the majority of the past 3 days because of a slipped tendon, and just today I noticed the crop has swollen and doesn't seem to be going down any. I've seen that you can regurgitate older chickens but I'm not so sure about a young chick. Any advice would be...

My 7 day old guinea keet has a slipped tendon in its right leg, and I've been trying for almost 4 hours to get a splint on and get him in a sling, or chair, that will work. I have a splint right now that is just a straw holding the leg straight, held on by two strips of vet wrap at either end...

My 7 day old guinea keet looks like his/her leg is out of place. I have experienced spraddle/splayed leg before and this is definitely not it. I have not seen this before, and I can't take pictures right now because my camera battery is dead, it should be charged enough in maybe 30 minutes or...

I posted another thread in the "emergencies" section but I thought I'd post here, too. I put some olive oil on its cloaca and have tried feeding it yogurt and applesauce, but it's not interested in trying any new foods... I'm terrified to try to squeeze the poo out but it may be my only...

My little guy has a hard ball of poo that he/she can't get out. It's anus is starting to swell and the poor thing just pushes and peeps and I feel so bad but I don't know what to do. I've never had this happen before. I think he/she might've ingested some wood shavings but I can't be certain. I...

Hey all! If you'd like some type of chick fix while waiting for your kiddos to hatch, you are more than welcome to watch my live cam. :) I have one baby out so far, hatched about 2 hours ago, and 2 other pips/cracks. I will do my best to keep it live all day, but sometimes the internet cuts out...

Hi everyone. We are being slammed with heavy snow this morning and I'm worried sick about the power going out. I currently have two incubators running with my first set of guinea eggs on day 12. They are currently in my closet, in this used-to-be snake cage. There's a door with plexiglass on...

I got my very first guinea eggs in the mail last Wednesday, set them Wednesday night at around 8:45pm, putting tonight at officially the start of day 6. I've been quick-candling every day (hold the flashlight over them for a couple seconds to see if it's more dark than light, then move to the...

If any of you shop at a Murdoch's farm supply store, you may have seen my old rooster, Spike, on a couple flyers. I went to Murdoch's yesterday and was pleasantly surprised to see that the picture I submitted made it to the main part of a flyer! :) Just thought I'd share. The original: And...

Thanks! Thanks! I've never checked fertility like this, so I need some guidance. To me, it looks fertile. :)

Hi everyone, this is my first time in the "quail" section, and I need a bit of guidance. My father's boss wants me to hatch and raise some quail for him to let loose in the open space behind his house. He said he wants to feed them in the backyard. So I will be getting about 50 eggs, and...

Time to start my incubator up again. :) I've decided to set the seven eggs that I collected this morning. Going through the menu settings got me wondering what settings you all use. Right now I have the: Temp set at 100.6 (accurate thermometer inside is reading 99.5) T-mode AUT Turn Int...

Hey everyone, First of all; SO excited for hatching season! Last year, out of four attempts (of 16, 30, 8, and 5 eggs per batch), all I got were 3 babies, all females though so that's a plus, at least. Anyways. I think one of my bigger problems was the accuracy of my thermo/hygrometers... I've...

I'm quite interested in getting a pair or two of Royal Palm turkey poults this spring. I would keep them in the same pen as my Peafowl are in now (30'x40' outdoor pen connected to an 8'x16' "coop"), because they're about the same size as it is and I believe I've heard they get along. So how much...