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    Guineas "stolen" by neighbor's flock...

    It seems like every year my guineas start to dwindle down and just when I think they will all be gone, a dozen or twenty hatch. They are happy birds when there are 10-20 of them and when they have plenty of room to roam. Having guineas is SO different than chickens or ducks. They are quirky...
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    Pea hen with long term wound

    I have good news. After a thorough exam, I can tell her left wing is all healed! And her right wing, the one I saw dripping some blood last night, has a few crazy looking ingrown feathers in the scar tissue area. I think she was bleeding out of one of those spots. The wound smells good and...
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    Pea hen with long term wound

    We are old school and barter farm eggs for honey from a bee keeper down the road. So our honey isn't ruined by 'the man'. I am going to inspect her better after lunch. I will see what her wings look like. I will try to get some photos too. We have a shorter cage that we keep chickens in...
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    Pea hen with long term wound

    I need some medical advice for our oldest hen. Last spring, our oldest peahen 'Queenie' went broody in the tall grass where all our peahens nest. She showed up two weeks later with two nasty wounds, one on each wing, as if something tried to grab her. Her feathers were all messed up and...
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    How We Are Hatching Guineas

    I have been letting my 16 keats out with their parents (the dad has been an active parent since hatching, insisting on being in with the mother and babies. At 5 weeks I started letting them out for a few hours a day and so far so good. Not only do they keep them close to the coop eating...
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    How We Are Hatching Guineas

    So in the past, we had two methods of trying to hatch keats. We would try to let them do it the natural way, in the fridges of our property, nesting in thick thickets and tall grass. But this usually ended in a well fed owl, ferrel cat, raccoon, or fox. The other way was following guineas...
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    Noisy females

    I have a mated pair that I swear need marriage counseling. The female, a beautiful spotless royal purple, will fly up on the roof of the house and her pearl husband will fly up on the garage some 10 feet away an they will call at each other for hours trying to convince the other to come to...
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    male to female ratio

    3 weeks and they are flying fools. Our 16 keets and their mom and dad got out yesterday and we had to shoo them off the roof of the coop with a broom.
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    When Can I Let Them Go?

    Well, nature decided it was time! Queeny, our old peahen who I was getting worried had wandered off and died, showed up last night with one perfect little peachick under her. So She will go in the big enclosure and the younger mother and her two babies will get to see the big outside world...
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    Duck on the wrong nest :/

    I had a chick and a duck switch nests. This has lead to all sorts of headaches at our farm. At night the momma chicken flies to the roost and clucks for her baby ducklings to fly up there with her... And the poor little guys try but their little thumb-like wings can't get them off the ground.
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    When Can I Let Them Go?

    I have a mother penhen with two lovely peachicks. They are now six weeks old and are big and healthy. They follow their mother around their large enclosure in the barn. I have been leery of letting them out into the big world because we lost a couple peachicks last year. One fell in the...
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    6 of my guineas are just gone, one pair stayed.

    The worst experience of my life raising birds was four years back when I had hand raised 15 guinea keats to come when I whistled. It had been two months and I would lead them around the acreage with a walking stick and they would coop back up with I called. One day they veered into the hay...
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    male to female ratio

    We try to keep them 1:1. As guinea hens die off in the summer, the boys gather up and prowl around looking to make trouble. They pull out rooster tails (on our chickens) harass the ducks, even will chase the barn cats around. But when they have a lady to focus on, the males are much better...
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    Wandering guineas help

    From my experience, guineas just HATE ducks. Its especially bad in the spring. They chase ours all over the place. You can sometimes train them when they are young and first start to leave the coop by following them with a walking stick and warding them away from areas they aren't supposed...
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    Bearded guinea fowl ?

    What color were the beards? Some of our guineas has bags of loose skin under their chin that are nearly electric neon blue. But I would not call them a beard... More like a droop.
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