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Picked up my babies yesterday!

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Yay! wee.gif I got the call to come pick up my babies yesterday!  11 little fuzzies!  Pictures attached (of course!) ... first time in their new brooder (through the side of it, so it's a little hazy!), first good night's sleep in their new home love.gif, and finally, bright and early this morning, all ready to go!  Hopefully the last picture is clear enough that someone can tell me what mixture of colors I have? caf.gif  

 

We are off to a good start.... eating, drinking, peeping, pooping, and little bursts around the paper towels.  So far, so good, thanks to all the info I've been absorbing on BYC for the past months.  THANKS ALL for sharing their info on here!!!!  Still learning as I go! 

 

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Edited by allidew2 - 5/14/12 at 3:04pm
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Adorable! I can't wait to get my call to pick up my babies....I have to wait until the end of this month tho. I'm not a real expert on coloring, still learning myself. Sorry!

Chickens are like potato chips, you can't have just one!

 

Hens: 1 Buff Orpington & 1 Leghorn.         Pullets: 1 New Hampshire Red, 1 Light Brahma, 1 Speckled Sussex, & 1 Partridge Rock.

 

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Chickens are like potato chips, you can't have just one!

 

Hens: 1 Buff Orpington & 1 Leghorn.         Pullets: 1 New Hampshire Red, 1 Light Brahma, 1 Speckled Sussex, & 1 Partridge Rock.

 

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Congrats! love.gif

 

You have 6 Pearl Greys, 4 Pied Pearl Greys (with keets with the narrower head stripe area, white on the sides on their faces and their wing and chest areas), and the 1 pure White keet is obvious, (lol).

 

Nice brooder thumbsup.gif

 

highfive.gif~250+Guineas/6Flocks(18 Different Colors, plus assorted Pieds),3IB Peahens,1IB Peacock& 8Peachicks(3Pieds),93Turkeys(2WildX,2Mottled BlackX,2NarriX&82Poults+5Royal Palm Poults),25Coturnix 

&1Button Quail,17Silkies&5Showgirls(POOFBALLS!),5.5Horses(The .5's a Mini),1BLM Burro(Livestock Guardian),8MuttGoats(Brushers),2Rotts,3Red Heelers,7Lazy Cats,4FishTanks~

 

 

 

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highfive.gif~250+Guineas/6Flocks(18 Different Colors, plus assorted Pieds),3IB Peahens,1IB Peacock& 8Peachicks(3Pieds),93Turkeys(2WildX,2Mottled BlackX,2NarriX&82Poults+5Royal Palm Poults),25Coturnix 

&1Button Quail,17Silkies&5Showgirls(POOFBALLS!),5.5Horses(The .5's a Mini),1BLM Burro(Livestock Guardian),8MuttGoats(Brushers),2Rotts,3Red Heelers,7Lazy Cats,4FishTanks~

 

 

 

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Thanks, Peeps!!!  The babies are doing great.  love.gif  And I fully intend to use all your pointers on training them.  I really want them to come when called, especially to go into their coop at night for their own safety.  We hope to have the best trained guineas around!  fl.gif   And the lady I got them from wants me to let her know how the training goes.  Hers roost in trees, but lay their eggs in their coop! 

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I love the sleeping picture!

Married to the old dude, 0 human kids, 2 horses, 10 cockatiels, 2 parakeets, 1 sun conure, 1 amazon parrot,  1 eccentric peacock, 1 gsd, 1 pet terrapin, 1 Blue Copper Maran rooster, and 14 world famous Jersey Giants!

 

 

Stan the Man will be missed.

 

 

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Married to the old dude, 0 human kids, 2 horses, 10 cockatiels, 2 parakeets, 1 sun conure, 1 amazon parrot,  1 eccentric peacock, 1 gsd, 1 pet terrapin, 1 Blue Copper Maran rooster, and 14 world famous Jersey Giants!

 

 

Stan the Man will be missed.

 

 

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post #6 of 35

Adorable.  love the pictures and a great brooder setup.  Just rememebr they will fly before you expect them to, so be sure you have the top on the brooder.

 

On that note, our guineas started laying the first year, and they started back up here a couple of months ago.  We have been trying to incubate the eggs, but have had issues with the incubator.  Well I think we have it figured out now, so we should have keets being born in the next week, oh and we now have a chicken sitting on a batch of guinea eggs too.

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Roughly how old will they be when they begin to fly?

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Here's another bedtime pic..... they are out cold!  I wish I could sleep that soundly!

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Look at this one stretched out on the thermometer!  They are SO cute!  love.gif

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Aww! So cute! I wish that I had chosen to go with keets! I just bought a pair of adult guineas and they are feisty! At first they were just afraid of me, and now one of them is hissing at me and biting me! Yikes!

 

BTW, I didn't even know that there was different colors of guineas, let alone WHITE! Cool!
 

My best friends: 30 some odd chickens (BO, BR, GLW, Red Sexlinks, some 1/2 BO, 1/2 any of those breeds), 2 horses (Standardbred, Standardbred Appy X), 2 dogs (Lab x Golden Retriever and Aussy mix), and 2 cats.

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My best friends: 30 some odd chickens (BO, BR, GLW, Red Sexlinks, some 1/2 BO, 1/2 any of those breeds), 2 horses (Standardbred, Standardbred Appy X), 2 dogs (Lab x Golden Retriever and Aussy mix), and 2 cats.

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Adorable.  love the pictures and a great brooder setup.  Just rememebr they will fly before you expect them to, so be sure you have the top on the brooder.

 

Those little cuties are already stretching their necks and eyeing the open top when I'm in there doing something.  They are only a few days old, but I've seen them hopping and trying out those tiny wings, even though only two of them are beginning to their first feathers.  Probably after next week I won't feel secure taking the top completely off!  Here's the sleeping half of the brooder under the light (the waterer sits right in the middle) and yes... Fort Guinea est May 10, 2012 018.jpg  that lid is always on.  wink.png

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