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    Smoky Mtn East TN

    I hopefully will be hatching african dewlap geese in the spring. I have a young trio raised last year if anyone would be interested. Located in hawkins county
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    Raising Guinea Fowl 101

    I have hatched out around 20 keets this year and all of them are hens. I only have one older male so was hoping for a few males but I guess it's the year of the hens.
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    Heritage & Exhibition Turkey Thread

    Well I have a update on the on my situation. The other black hens eggs all hatched and I now have blue slate poults alive and doing great. A couple of the other hens eggs hatched and they are a totally different color. I am now wondering if maybe she is a wild turkey instead of a black phase...
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    Heritage & Exhibition Turkey Thread

    they all free range together. The problem is the black poults hatch fine. Its only the blue poults that aren't hatching or die soon after. All eggs out of the same hen until next month.
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    Heritage & Exhibition Turkey Thread

    Oh I forgot to also say that all the eggs so far are out of the same hen. I have the first ones out of the other hen to hatch the second. If they all hatch I am going to find the one hen a new home.
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    Heritage & Exhibition Turkey Thread

    . I have 4 black ones going strong and just opened the last two up that were suppose to hatch yesterday both blue and dead in shell. That makes a total of 7 dead blue ones. I had one blue hatch about 2 weeks ago with 2 blacks and it was dead the next morning. I got my Tom from cackle last...
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    Heritage & Exhibition Turkey Thread

    I am hatching out blue slate turkeys. My hens are black and the Tom is blue with black specks. The problem I am having is all the blue poults die the day after they hatch or die in shell right before they hatch. All the black poults hatch and do great. What am I doing wrong or is this some kind...
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    Raising Guinea Fowl 101

    It looks identical to the very top dark one. So it is a royal purple pied ? That's cool guinea genetics are crazy....lol
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    Raising Guinea Fowl 101

    I have one keet that has hatched. By the pictures on the internet it looks to me like a royal purple but this is my first one to ever hatch. I am not sure it seems darker than the chocolate keet pics.
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    Raising Guinea Fowl 101

    I wish I could find info on colors. Like if you breed this to this you get this kinda thing. What colors produce what. I have searched the internet but not really anything that I have found.
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    Raising Guinea Fowl 101

    this is the second breeding season for the white hen but the chocolates are less than a yr old. I figured that he just doesn't have it down yet or he is to obsessed with a Cornish hen that he sticks with all the time....lol
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    Raising Guinea Fowl 101

    thanks for the info. I am going to try and find another male to see if that helps.the white hen is out of whites so I guess I have chocolate pied keets , I am happy with that. I would love to find a buff male but they are non existing around here. Most people just have pearl grays.
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    Raising Guinea Fowl 101

    I have a male chocolate and 2 chocolate hens and a white hen. For some reason only the whites eggs are fertile. Anyone know if the chocolates are harder to hatch? Also crossing chocolate to white what color will the offspring be ?
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    Araucana thread anyone?

    They were candled and placed in a turner with the air sac up till day 18. Then placed in a carton to hatch. Never had this happen before and wondering why they hatched upside down.
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    Araucana thread anyone?

    Have a question. I just hatched a batch of araucana eggs and half of them were upside down and died. I have hatched several before but never this breed. Anyone else had this problem ?
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