Recent content by Meeka3

Thank you so much for that, I am a complete novice at this. I have had no experience with hatching chicks of any kind. I've always bought my chicks at around 5 weeks and just made sure I kept them warm at night. I did get a brooder ready for the guinea chicks, because even if the mama hatches...

when I checked the eggs this morning one of them was eaten out, I'm assuming it was a rat, so I took ten eggs off the top and brought them inside. I only ordered the incubator yesterday on the internet so it will probably take at least a week to get here, I hope they'll stay fresh until then...

me too, I've had ten broody chooks in the last two weeks, and three of those have come back after a couple of eggs for a second go. I only have three broody cages, so it's been like musical chairs and me walking around carrying a chook saying "what am I going to do with this chook", and now...

Does anyone else find the format of this site confusing? I wish it was set up more like facebook where you can talk to, and answer people easily without having to find the question 6 pages back. I have just ordered an incubator because my guineas are sitting on about 26 eggs and I thought I...

there are actually two girls, the top three photos are both girls, and the bottom photo is the boy, the boy and one girl are the ones that Satay says are welsummers, and the top girl looks very much like a photo I found on the internet of a blacktailed buff marans hen. The two dark red ones have...

just updating the photos of my babies, they are about 2 and a half to 3 months old now so I thought they might be showing more characteristics of their breed, or I should say breeds, they are definitely two different breeds. The little rooster is so shiny he looks like he's been oiled, it...

I bought mine fully grown for $35 each, they're eggs are the size of a small bantam and the chicks are very tiny, so I'm not sure how they'd go under a large hen like a Plymouth Rock. Mind you, Guineas aren't very good mamas so maybe the chook would be alright for the 6 weeks they need to stay...

I did think of that but I don't think it would work here, my 8 acres are surrounded by trees around the inside of my perimeter and they could just keep go higher up the tree and over the fence, then they wouldn't be able to get back in. The pen they are in is a good size, and they have a high...

He said he doesn't mind waiting, he got a dozen wheaten marans eggs, but he would like some black cuckoo as well, and I have figured out how to get some of your chickens - ha - I'll just wait until he's got some ready for selling, and ask him to let me know.

They're more like wild birds than chooks, and these ones that I got lived on 100 acres in the trees, so although I originally thought I had to keep them penned for 4 weeks, now I have found out it takes about 8 weeks for them to know where they live. They will travel up to 20 k's per day to...

thanks, I'll let him know and see what he says.

I was thinking about how lovely the guinea fowl are to each other, they were genuinely concerned when one got out and called to her until she got back in. On the other hand, if any of the chooks get out it's like "bye, see you, more food for me, oh, and I bags the best spot on the perch " and...

If you live close to neighbours you wouldn't be able to have them unfortunately. Most of the time they are quieter than the chooks, but I had a taste of how loud they can be this afternoon. One of them escaped from the pen and the others called very loudly for her to come back, she came back and...

They don't actually chase the foxes, but they make a very loud noise like a machine gun, which warns all the other animals of danger, and sometimes it's so loud, it frightens the fox away.

yes, they're Guinea fowl, I have to keep them in pen for a couple of weeks, and then I'll let them free range and hopefully they'll clean up all the ticks, small snakes, and keep the foxes at bay.