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No it's not bad advice. Each flock is different. Each land and predator. Each situation. For these birds I am done stepping in. The fit will survive. I should have considered getting them home and doing it alone. They were very far away. They were in a huddle. Am I glad I did it? To be honest...

Getting all my birds back from these woods was an impossibility but I got lucky.

Let me clarify that was a 2 minute excerpt of a 3.5 hr experience here is every single detail... I only used the truck lights to pin point them. They cover 40 acres easily. I heard them last by owls tree 1/4 mile away. Very big area to search. I went there and searched from 830-12 with a thumb...

Yea well I did what common sense would otherwise tell me not to do. I went after them like an idiot. I heard them. I shined the truck lights into the weeds. Amazingly all heads were present. I went in to get them and they scattered into the darkness. So now after knowing, because I have actually...

Urgent question. This has never happened before. The young birds were out with the older birds. They had never wandered too far until today. I have seen the older babies chase the young ones further and further into the field until they were all spread out. They had gone very far today. I could...

@pattyhen Cute squirtle. So baby made another come back. I guess he just has his days where he needs to catch up on rest. I have gotten better at noticing his exhaustion. I bring him into the "bird room" where he has a room made up inside the bedroom. He can run as he pleases. The floor is...

Many predatory animals are efficient killers. His suffering would not have been too long. I am also anxious to make it to spring. I can lose a bird a day out here. The hunting season has evolved. Owls are out sooner or later into the day. Raccoons every hour of the day and night as their...

GLENNLEE - I have the actual chlorahexidine, prescription strength. I don't know what the potency is on the other stuff in your shampoo. Because it is quite strong I only applied it once a day or as needed. If an open wound got too mushy or wet I would lightly swab the area with the...

GLENNLEE - even my adult guineas needed the tiered perches. They are just, I won't say weak fliers, just not precise landers. Tiered perches help also once the birds get moody. The tiers aid in evasion better. I truly hope it isn't Marek's but perhaps a vitamin deficiency. The two injured birds...

Definitely agree. Mine went so far the first few months I had to drive around in the car to find them. Then guide them home and go back and get the car. Need a gator bad, yard tractor died. I put deer guard on the inside of the coop add on so the babies cant get caught in the chainlink...

I have been reluctant to put my keets out in the add on. Its 110 heat index. An unforecasted torrential downpour occurred yesterday morning to noon and now again on sunday monday and tuesday. They are going into the add on monday..no matter what.. but i just dont trust my carpentry skills or...

Poor baby. :( so sorry he didnt make it but always worth a try to let them try. That is all you can do. Nature, afterall, would not have even given him half the chance. I wonder if I am doing right by baby. If he doesn't recover function of his leg then what?? The flock may turn to pecking on...

Ok. Thank you. So perhaps this years babies will yield some whites next laying season. I have about 6 pies (pearl x white) out of 18 so hopefully two will pair off and give me some whites....wont know if any of the the pearls carry recessive lavender until I get some lavender babies but...

Cant see that. Is this guy opaline? I thought he was a jumbo or french. He is daddy to all my babies but not one is like him. They are all pied or black with white dots. The other daddy was solid white. None of him either. Both died nobly at the hands of coons. I would like to buy some but...

How long has he been unable to use his legs? Was it an accident or did he get pummeled or fall from a perch? Have you inspected his legs and the joints? Did you search the symptoms online and on BYC? There is an emergency section over the site. Post there for help. I dont know what all his...

That is too stinking cute. They will perch on their baby perch until it snaps. <3

Adorable. I love guineas. People say why not get chickens?? I say pssh, chickens?? Everyone has chickens... But ya Im thinking about getting some pullets now.

Thank you. I wish i could have gotten him in sooner but Friday was the only opening that they had and I had off from work. Sometimes wish I would have called in just to get in sooner...so afraid they will say there is nothing we can do here.

They cannibalize each other because they are not smart. They see and smell meat or the red of a cut and then attempt to eat it. In this case it is not a matter of aggression per se but stupidity. Once the swelling had gone down on his face I saw the bite marks of a cat. My cats have never gone...

Thank you so much. I take the prayer business serious here and will take all the help I can get. I will pray also for GlennLees birds. Preening is always a good sign of recovery. GLENNLEE - The vet I took Baby to was very kind but she didnt have the slightest idea how to treat him. I called her...