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    OCD Guinea Hen

    I was wondering if anyone has ever experienced this with their own guinea hen. I just hatched five keets under my silkie hen two weeks ago. The guinea hen has ignored the chicks that I hatched under a hen last year, but now she is utterly obsessed with these keets. She paces up and down outside...
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    Please Help! My Keet's Feet are Slipping Sideways!

    Thank you so much! Off to search for splayed leg!
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    Please Help! My Keet's Feet are Slipping Sideways!

    I am very new to hatching, and this is my first time hatching guineas. I have five, and one hasn't been walking right since it hatched (yesterday). Its feet slip sideways and I don't know if it has ever actually stood up. It's getting around in its own way, but I am really concerned since its...
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    MARYLAND THREAD!

    Hello from Carroll County! Can anyone recommend a good place to purchase fertilized Guinea fowl eggs? I like to keep a couple with my hens because they are great at alerting everyone to hawks, and right now I've got a broody hen who could raise the keets. I would really appreciate some...
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    Can't figure out my predator

    My predators are usually hawks, but I had a chicken killed today and cannot figure out what did it. There was no blood at all or any wounds that I could find. She had two bald-ish patches on her back (which she was lying on) and seemed to have been dragged up to a small hole in the wall of the...
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    Young Rooster's Chest Blown Up Like a Balloon!

    Thanks for the advice! I put him in a rabbit cage that I keep on hand for sick chickens and went out a couple times a day to 'pop' him and gave him vitamins to give his system a boost. It is one week today that I have not had to pop him at all! He has a little bit of air in him still, that has...
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    Young Rooster's Chest Blown Up Like a Balloon!

    I hatched four Sebright eggs under a broody hen. One died the day of, and another died three weeks later of a weird respiratory disease. Now my sole little rooster is blown up like a balloon! His whole chest is filled with air, all the way up into his neck. I didn't know what to do, so I stuck a...
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