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    Need help finding DE for fly control

    I think that it is more of a drying agent type of thing and will affect maggots etc. a lot more than critters like ants. Ants are pretty evil and I haven't found anything "natural" that works worth a darn. We have terrible ants and if anyone knows anything to do about them, please share. I...
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    Need help finding DE for fly control

    I had my local Southern States order me food grade DE/ I got about 5lbs. I recall it being cheaper than mail order, it was really inexpensive whatever it was and I have only used a small amount. A little goes a long way. I mix it into the shavings in the coop and just mix all the poo etc in...
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    Chicken hatched Guinea Eggs (ANOTHER UPDATE & PICS-POST #36)

    wow-great info-I have this going on right now and was wondering how it would play out. I didn't think the guinea was looking really good as far as setting on the nest and now it seems I don't have to worry about it since a chicken has decided to take over. I didn't know if it was going to work...
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    Guinea eggs under a chicken after being in a bator??

    I also have similar questions. Last year my guineas hatched their own eggs but this year one of my Ameraucana chickens has decided to go broody on a nest of about 20 guinea eggs that have been laid inside the coop near the nesting box. I found the guinea hen kinda staring at her while the...
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    Training Guineas to Coop

    a couple of quick thoughts here after having guineas for a couple of years. We have ours trained to roost with the chickens and they are all together in the pen until let out in the afternoon and closed up at night. It took time but they learned to go in at night...eventually. Occasionally...
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    Muddy Coop Club

    It's spring in NC where we live and my pen is muddy-but not too bad as I have straw down right now in there. Here is the problem-It decomposes and gets icky disgusting and then i have to shovel it out and that is gross and tiresome. My thought is this: do I wait til it dries out some-shovel...
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    [updated] APPROXIMATE Cost of building an 8x12 shed or buying one

    We bought a used shed off craigslist. It's about 8x10. We paid $100 for it and were lucky enough to have someone haul it on a flatbed for $100. We painted it inside and out and built a divider so we could store things in the front. We built a pen off to one side with mostly salvaged wood and...
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    Um, I'm thinking I'd rather have the ticks...

    We started with 6 and then they hatched about 40 keets! We sold all but 4 of them. By the time there were 10 adults we knew some of them had to go. We sold 6 and are now down to 2 pairs. 4 of them seem to get along better, much less noisy and we won't be keeping any keets this time! I had...
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    My eggs don't taste like farm fresh eggs

    We let ours free range in the afternoon as they don't go far and they eat tons of insects, worms, grass, clover, weeds...even snakes and frogs!!! Their eggs are incredible and right now since it's summer they eat only a small amount of their regular feed+oyster shell that we give them. Another...
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    loner guinea keet?

    okay-good idea-my kids have loads of stuffed animals. My older daughter has been picking him up and petting him a lot, which he seems to like (!) We are kinda hoping for a really tame one, since we are hand raising from hatching. I'm not about to obtain more birds at this point-esp. ones that...
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    loner guinea keet?

    I have a guinea mom that finally (after many weeks of setting) hatched a baby-much to our great surprise and delight. We brought him into the garage in a box because I'm sure something (predator or chicken or guinea) would get him if we left him out in the pen. He seems fine except for lonely...
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    Do you feed your free range Guineas in the Summer?

    I agree that something is eating the feed-and it ain't the guineas! We let ours free range all afternoon and they come in to the pen and coop with the chickens in the evening. We throw out bird seed and corn for them and fill a couple of bowls with chicken layer crumbles. The guineas and...
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    unhatched guinea eggs

    thanks-I'll try it. I have 4 females and 2 males and we have seen them breeding. I'll try sneaking some out today.
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    unhatched guinea eggs

    one of my guinea females laid a huge nest of about 30 eggs under the hen house inside their pen. She has been faithfully sitting on it but unfortunately I have seen no babies hatch. She has definitely been on there about 6 weeks or so! Should I just clear out the nest? Can I check the eggs...
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    hen found dead in coop-no obvious cause

    This afternoon when I went into the coop to collect eggs and feed the chickens, I discovered Mary-a one year old Ameraucana, dead in the coop. She was lying under the roosts like she had just dropped dead in the night. My birds have outdoor and shade access as well as fresh water all day...
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