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    Free - 5 hens - with issue - northern illinois

    Hi - I need to rehome my 5 brown egg laying ladies. They’re approximately 2 years old. I just don’t have time for them any more. My problem is that they have been exposed to Merck’s disease. They are vaccinated and are fine. The eggs are fine to eat. However, since the Merek’s vaccine is...
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    Merek’s disease exposed chickens - how to rehome

    I assumed it was Marek’s, based on the symptoms. We carried on, just fine with the hens, but it’s time to stop chicken tending and I just don’t have the heart to eat them.
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    Merek’s disease exposed chickens - how to rehome

    About 4 years ago, we had some eggs hatch with our rooster and hens. All the chicks from that brood got Merck’s and died as juveniles. The coop was cleaned and the adults lived. The next year, hawk got inside the chicken run and killed the 3 of 4 hens and our rooster. We got 4 more hens...
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    Merek’s disease exposed chickens - how to rehome

    Hi - I have 5 lovely, brown egg laying hens who are about 2 years old. They are vaccinated for Merek’s disease and have been exposed to it. Since the vaccine is “incomplete,” I consider them contagious for it. I need to rehome them, because I just don’t have time for them, but I don’t want to...
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    Will baby chicks be able to go up the coop ladder/stairs?

    The steps are maybe 3 inches high each. We could pen off the corner with her nest. Last year, we had guinea fowl keets hatch - penning off the corner worked for a little while. They're crafty and coul jump when they're very young, but couldn't figure out chicken ramps or stairs.... My goal now...
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    Will baby chicks be able to go up the coop ladder/stairs?

    I've got a brooding hen in a floor level nest box in the coop right now. The coop is raised a footnote so off the ground and has short brick steps up to the chicken door. My questions - When they hatch, does anyone know if they will they be able to follow the mama up the stairs to go back in the...
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    Can a guinea raise a chick?

    Our guineas are laying on the coop floor. (In an excellent area that we can partition off when they start brooding. Yay!) BUT... Our wacky little mottled houdan chicken has decided she's a guinea and is laying her eggs with the guineas. I've been taking her eggs out, but the guineas should...
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    Guineas Wandered Into Our Yard

    When I first got my guineas, I lured them into the coop at night using a light. Guineas won't go into a dark building, so if you give them a shelter, they may be more willing to use it if you put a light in it for them. A solar light with a dusk sensor works well for me. Also, mine LOVE dried...
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    Eating MICE

    My young rooster caught a mouse in the yard, too! Then, there was a merry chase with the other chickens trying to steal his catch! Weird, but thanks for letting me know that this can be considered normal!!!
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    Nesting guinea

    Like Shiza said - guinea mamas will take the keets out with dew on the ground or in the rain. Fortunately, mine nested in the coop, so I was able to just not let them out until the dew dried and rustle them in if it rained for the first few weeks. I went with the saying, "a wet keet is a dead keet."
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    Nesting guinea

    It sounds like the ones that you've candled that are dark are near hatching. I'd leave her for a few more days. (Guinea eggs only take 28 days to hatch, so I'm assuming they're newer eggs than the orignals 6 weeks ago.)
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    Babies Outside Today!

    I'm glad yours are good mamas! I don't know why guineas have a bad rep as mothers. Mine are doing great with theirs - wait until yours start teaching your keets how to roost. It's really funny! Here's a pic of my gang. They're 7 weeks old now.
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    Agressive, sneak attack rooster -- help

    I would have liked to have a good ending to finish my post - perhaps a happy, but tragic tale of the rooster, LeRoux, giving his life to save his flock from a hawk, or perhaps even a coyote... But you were all right. He just kept getting meaner and sneakier. I found someone to do the deed...
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    Chicken and Tomatoes

    I just put up some chicken wire around my tomatoes. It's flimsy, but mine won't try to cross/get over it.
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    Post pics of your Polish chickens

    That looks like a gold laced polish crossed with another color.
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