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    Guinea fowl black beak

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    Guinea fowl black beak

    Any idea what this is? We had a guinea die last week out of the blue for us- she was dead in the coop and I was at work so didn't get to see her before she was disposed of. Now today we noticed this guinea moving slowly and apart from the others and her beak looks kind of deteriorated and...
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    How to mice/rat proof the coop floor?

    I'm new so bare with me. We just re-homed our last flock (all turned out to be roosters, not so good luck I guess) and will be transferring our new babies out to the coop in a couple weeks. While we were just cleaning out the coop we noticed many burrow holes in the coop floor (dirt on the...
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    Should I be done with these maran chicks?

    The thoughts of wanting to re home them are simply because I am paranoid ;) of having crazy and over active chickens...our last group of babies ended up being all but one being roosters and they were psychotic! I just want to have some fun, friendly girls (I'm pretty sure one out of our 11...
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    Should I be done with these maran chicks?

    Am I crazy for wanting to get rid of these three maran chicks I have? They are a little crazy compared to the other chicks (others are cochins, brahma, ee, br). They fly back and forth in the tub, jump on the ledge. They are two weeks old and the others are about 9 days. It's like they are...
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    Tail/Saddle Feathers on 10 day old Maran Chicks

    Oh ok - so you are saying that the one that has the bigger spot on head and no tail feathers yet is the male? I was assuming other way around. That makes me happy :)
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    Cleaning the coop - what to use?

    We just got rid of our "flock" of all roosters (super luck we had in straight run = out of 8, 7 were roos) so now we went the sexed route ;) Anyway, we have our coop that is now empty as the babies are inside, we know we need to clean it and sanitize it but there are so many different things...
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    Tail/Saddle Feathers on 10 day old Maran Chicks

    Out of our 11 chicks we have 3 maran chicks - 2 of whom look identical, 1 looks different. I will post pics later if I can. The two similar are both having tail/saddle feathers come in... as in pointing up, not just the downy feathering. They are also a bit darker in markings, still have...
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    Active chicks... not sure about light

    Ok they had a red light for the first two days but I didn't think they were warm enough because they huddled under it a descent amount of time. So we put a white 250 watt (I don't know the wattage on the red but it's what we used last time with our chicks) and they are all super active and...
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    Help a newbie please :)

    Ok I think I have it figured out with your help. the three black remaining chicks (not the barred rock, tiny black one) are the marans... I thought I had cuckoo marans but now I think they must be black copper. of the four brownish colored chicks - three have "beards" so assuming those are...
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    Help a newbie please :)

    So I just picked up 9 of our babies (still waiting for our 2 buff orp's, 1 light brahma and 1 silver laced wy)... Here's what is supposed to be in this box: 3 Americauna 3 marans 1 dark brahma 1 blue Cochin 1 barred rock I think that the blue cochin is the little yellow and light blue one...
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    Roosters.... how to get rid of?

    Somehow out of 8 silkie/sizzle chicks we ended up with 7 roosters... How did that happen?!? Anyway, what is the best way to get rid of them? They are 7 months old. I have an ad on craigslist but I just want them to be re-homed asap. What else can I do? I'm in Northern California - right...
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