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    Guinea needs a home

    Yes, agree. If she is a year or older she will find a place to stay at night. Just continue to enjoy her and maybe encourage her to go inside a enclosure when it gets cold.
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    Where are our guinea owners located?

    Gainesville, Ga.
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    Where to purchase guineas or common purchasing sites?

    Shipment of eggs or keets is always stressful and sometimes fatal, try to get them local and if you have to drive a bit it is worth it. Check your local paper online or farmers market.
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    Momma guinea smothered first keet

    Always remember anything you feed new to any animal do it gradually. Start out with a little bit then monitor the effects. Do not suddenly change a birds diet, this can be devastating.
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    Momma guinea smothered first keet

    Any and all
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    Momma guinea smothered first keet

    Turkey crumbles, 3 grain scratch and rolled oats, grass clippings, worms... Cooped birds. The extra male free rangers just get a hand full of scratch now and then, want them hungry so they will eat bugs, ticks ants ect. If you over feed the free rangers they get lazy and you wasted your money...
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    How Long are Hatching Eggs Good Until Set?

    Also remember the hen adds moisture from her body to the eggs when she deposits each day so do not let the eggs get to dry. I place mine on a turner each day as I collect them and mark with pencil the day it was collected, it is humid here in Ga. so no worries about them getting to dry but if...
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    age difference

    They should be fine, will pick at first but they all do, called "pecking order".
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    disappointing day

    Agreed, this is why they have minimum orders, they do not do well with so few.
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    Can guineas count?

    If you can do it without getting caught, I would take the cleanest, newest looking ones, try not to show you were there. Mark the ones left 3 or 4 then check back in a few days. If you have a dirt floor they are buried, gently dig them out but try not to be seen. That is what I would do anyway...
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    Can guineas count?

    I imagine it varies then from flock to flock and areas. Have always collected at 10 am and 3 pm. By then mine are done until the next day. Most of the guinea people have told me theirs are the same. I suppose there is always a few exceptions.
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    Can guineas count?

    My opinion, guineas lay before 2pm and if they see you take the eggs they will quit, do not think they can count. Mark with grease pen or something non toxic. Heavy contractor pencil is what I use.
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    Outcast

    Love is in the air, when mating season begins the males begin to compete for female attention. If you have to many males they will weed out weaker ones and eventually starve it out or kill it. Survival of the fittest. You need 1 male to up to 5 hens. I would pen up hens and a male with them and...
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    Guineas and Geese

    IMO if you have enough (6 or more) guineas they will grown with geese together and separate when let out. They both require high protein so feed wise should not be a problem. I have never raised geese but I have ducks with my guineas with no problems. Your baby geese will need pools of water...
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    Newby needing help

    Guineas are flock birds and prefer to be around other guineas, but she may be an exception as she has never been. I would put her in a cage within the chicken pen for a week or two then just open the cage inside the pen. IMO you should plan to get at least 6 more guineas even keets and raise...
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