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Thanks for the comments and replies. We are alternating between vaseline and bag balm. I read that vaseline dries out there scales/skin really bad so i thought adding bag balm to the mix would help. It's anti-bacterial as well so that should help. Tonight they get a warm water scrub with a...

Hi Bemba!! It's been awhile since i have had a chance to come onto BYC and catch up with things. I love your babies!!! They are growing and looking fantastic!!!! your an awesome chicken/guinea papa!!! My Miss Guinea was attack by a hawk. Poor girl!! thank god we were home and heard her...

Hello BYC and friends We are dealing with a Scaly Mite issue. We have 10 hens and 2 roosters. 4 to 5 of them have it visibly and a few pretty badly. This is what we will be doing, starting tonight. Any other suggestions for improving the plan would be appreciated. But i have a question...

omg bemba!!! that is fantastic!! Thanks so much for sharing the pictures and their story with us :) How wonderful!! :) If we had the experience we would stuff our guinea hens eggs under one of our broody chickens because she is one of our roosters favourites lol maybe next year :)

Thanks Firekin. Joe is not overly enthusiastic about taking the wee baby peacocks. Maybe one day once we have more room and separate housing away from the chickens and guinea's.

A friend of a friend just had baby peacocks hatch and she thought of me and our BYC flock and Guinea's and asked if we wanted a few. I have to talk to my husband about it as i think they would be a great addition to our family but i need to research and learn about them first. Do they...

our 11 wee meaties :) we just moved them outside at 4 weeks old. It got down to 12c last night but they all fine and loving it. The chicken tractor has a enclosed area with lots of straw to snuggle into. Joe keeps telling me to stop playing with my food!! but they are so sweet and love...

Hi we are in the north bay area and we have 3 New Hampires, 2 Amerucana's, 1 Guinea hen, 2 mixed breeds, 1 Black Sexlink, 1 Delaware, ISA browns and a few Rhode Island Reds. Currantly we have 11 meaties that are 4 weeks and have just been put outside. It was so funny watching them freak out on...

Welcome bunny. BYC is a fantastic website and when we became new chicken parents last spring this website was a godsend!! check all the forums and do some reading here. You will most likely find all the answers to your questions somewhere. :) Everyone her is so helpful and friendly. good luck!!

Heartsizedfarm and Flat Rock farm....thanks so much for your help :) I love this website!!!

I think I know Debbie...we are going to the grocery store today so I will have a look at the name tags but I think I remember chatting with a Debbie there!! i'll keep ya psoted. My man lives here permanently and has been here 7 years. I will ask him if knows any of your family. :)

Flat Rock, does this Adam have Marans, Orp's or Polish X?? maybe willing to sell one or two?

perfect. Thanks!!

Thanks Arielle. We are new at this as well and its all really an experiment. I just hope our experiment doesn't make them suffer but we will be watching as they free range and grow. They will be culled one by one as they reach a decent size. If one or two are doing well we just keep them until...

oh poor thing :( hopefully she gets on with them soon and given a chance to grow a bit a more. :) It will be interesting to see how our layers do with our meaties once we let them start free ranging.