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    Introducing half grown Keats to rest of flock?

    Are the adults free ranged? Yes the 9 three year old adults are free range, with a barnyard hatched keet. In the past how many keets/juveniles have you introduced to the flock when they chased them to death? We tried integrating two into a flock of about twenty adults. Yes the adults are...
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    Introducing half grown Keats to rest of flock?

    We have had a great year incubating eggs and hatching Keats. We have split the Guinea house in two so the adults and Keats have been seeing each other, plus the Keats have access to an enclosed outside area. The only other time we tried this the adults chased the Keats till they ran...
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    How old can Guinea eggs be and still hatch?

    I must add that I was careful when taking eggs that I took the cleanest looking ones hoping they were the newest.
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    How old can Guinea eggs be and still hatch?

    We started 3-4 weeks ago removing Guinea eggs and putting them in a nesting box for a chicken hen to incubate. A hen has been setting on them for three days now, are they candidates to hatch? We've all ready had one Guinea nest with setting hen destroyed by a racoon so were turning to the...
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    Chickens hatching and raising guineas

    When one of chicken hens went broody I switched and put guinea eggs under her, well she hatch three of the eggs about a month ago. Her and the youngsters are in a separate pen inside the big Guineas house to assist the chicks to be accepted into the flock(10) that free range around the farm...
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    Whats the best way to move a hen and her eggs?

    Many Thanks for the replies. I'm thinking now about taking a sheet of plywood with three foot legs on the corners a setting that over the nest the next time she gets off for food and water. This will act like a roof to protect her from flying predators and the sun. Any thoughts about this?
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    Whats the best way to move a hen and her eggs?

    We have a hen setting on eggs on top of a manure pile, an excellent place in amongst tall weeds for over head predators and a smell to cover her sent. But now that the rain has stopped the tall weeds are running out of moisture and dying so now the resident owl will get her. Please explain in...
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    When to start letting loose?!

    I would finish your coop then move them over to it and leave them there for a long while so they get use to it. Have screened windows and doors so they get use to the sight and sounds of there new home and area. When we get keets they are raised in there coop(old milk house) around the cattle...
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    Broody hen leaves the nest.

    Well it looks like while the hen that original started to set on the nest now has a helper. A few weeks ago we had a night time varmit distroy a nest and that hen never returned, well now she is helping with nesting duties with the hen that wasn't staying on her nest. We set up the incubator...
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    Hatching Guinea eggs

    Keets are never quiet unless there sleeping, always sounds to me like there lost and looking for mom or are hungery.
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    Broody hen leaves the nest.

    We have our first broody hen sitting on a nest in tall grass not far from there roosting house, and in the morning when we go to let the others out she is off the nest waiting for the others to come out and then she travels around the yard with her mate eating for a few hours then back to her...
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    Guinea prefured nesting box

    I had Guineas running my farm yards for years(15+) and never had a hen go broody a raise her babys. Always a varmit finds the nest and destroys it. I have a pair that spend a lot of time in there house during the day but no eggs on the floor, I do know they are laying as I found a nest back by...
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