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    North Carolina

    South Mills NC
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    Have Chickens, but still want Guinea

    I am new to BYC but have been raising Guinea's for a while now. I knew nothing about them but found this site to be the most helpful! http://www.gfba.org/ Buy the paper back book or go to Library and get it. ( Gardening with Guinea's by Jeannette S. Ferguson) My Guinea's are seed trained and...
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    North East North Carolina

    on the North Carolina and Virginia Border
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    Greetings, from Beverly South Mills North Carolina,

    Greetings, from Beverly South Mills North Carolina, We have at our Place a flock of Coral Blue Guinea Fowl and some White Homing Pigeons. One old Lab named Blue, Me, my husband Joe and my Parents. We have a 10 Acer lot which backs up to a Creek. Have been raising the guineas and selling Keets...
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    Transporting eggs

    Up-Date my friends have just sent me a pic of the Rooster Daddy. LOL Will find out more info later tonight as to his age and if the hens have been with Roosters before. getting excited!
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    Nesting Boxes inside or outside?

    We are getting ready to build our hen house. We are building it Shed style so if we ever stop raising chickens it can be used as a shed. With that in mind we have a choice to walk into the hen house each day to gather eggs from their nesting boxes or have the nesting boxes outside the hen house...
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    1 thing I wish I knew when I was starting out...

    I like your design! Can U describe your nesting area? or post pictures? thanks
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    Transporting eggs

    thanks fried green eggs. Guineas are so different then chickens. A guinea wont go broody until there are about 20-30 eggs on the nest. So I wasn't sure about the Chicken Hens. We don't have any basements here in the South. But I told my friend that I would bring my egg turner over and we can set...
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    New Rooster added to flock of 14 Hens

    My Friend is adding a Rooster to her flock of 14 hens so that I can have some fertile eggs to incubate. How many days do you ALL think it should take for New Rooster to get acquainted with the hens and we can start collecting eggs for the incubator? thanks
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    Transporting eggs

    Hello I am new to Back yard Chickens and new to Chickens! I raise Guinea Fowl but am getting ready to introduce some Chickens to our Family. I have a friend who lives about 45 minutes away. She is going to get a rooster and let the hens produce some eggs for me to incubate.I have 2 questions...
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