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    What to do with guineas...

    Mine definitely did get eaten by the coyotes. They were over a month old though. I found the issue is that the moment the sun starts to rise the guineas would become active and fly down from the safe top of the swingset. The coyotes would hunt them right as the sun started rising and they would...
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    Do these colors have names?

    Don't know if this is the right place to put this but a few years ago we decided to breed our Easter Egger rooster to our hens for replacement layers. We hatched 10 eggs and only 2 were girls. Now we only have 2 left actually thanks to relentless coyotes. One male and one female (as well as our...
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    What to do with guineas...

    We bought 5 guineas from our co-op about 4 years ago. They'd all roost on the top of our swingset in the back yard. Slowly though, one by one, they got picked off by coyotes. All but one. They lived just long enough for the single female we had to lay her first egg (its shell was so hard I threw...
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    What color are my chickens?

    Wow that was very helpful! You might be right about Travis actually! And with Cinders too! I looked up that breed and she carries her tail really upright as well, higher than the other hens do at least. :) I know that in chickens, roosters have two Z chromosomes and hens have a smaller one...
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    What color are my chickens?

    I don't know if this was the right place in the forum to put this but I'm curious if anyone knows what color my chickens are? We have just recently hatched some offspring from these and I'm wondering how their genetics passed down. I live on a horse farm, horse genetics are pretty straight...
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