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    Hamburgh rooster injured by fighting

    Update: This rooster has now fully recovered but he really doesn't get on with his roomate who injured him - they were lunging at each other through netting. So I've put him in a run with a hen that I don't want to breed for company and I've let the other rooster stay with the hens for...
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    Questions about hatching some dirty and maybe cold eggs ?

    Update: In the end we put about 15 eggs under the hen but she wasn't properly broody and by the time we realised she was leaving them cold it was too late to bring them to an incubator. But the good news is they are still laying and this time I've made sure they are in clean runs with clean...
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    Hamburgh rooster injured by fighting

    @Eggcessive thank you for this. This morning the comb has dried out but it's really shrunken and very dark red (not fleshy and pale red). Can I put a human antibiotic cream ? Or I have a chlortetracycline Hcl 2.45% spray that my vet gave me for general animal wounds..... I have another pen...
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    Hamburgh rooster injured by fighting

    I have a group of 8 Hamburgh rare breed chickens - 2 roosters and 6 hens. They have gotten along really well for 2 years as a group but now it's spring and the roosters are fighting for the first time. The junior rooster seems to be making a bid for control of the flock from the dominant one...
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    Questions about hatching some dirty and maybe cold eggs ?

    I've hatched quite a few clutches of bantam/duck/guinea fowl eggs under hens and in incubators in the past so have some experience. But I have collected a dozen eggs to try to hatch from my rare breed chickens (Hamburghs) which are an older flock and don't lay that often and I've got a couple...
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    Help !- introducing my Guinea Fowl Pair for Valentines Day !!

    Thank you. I think I need to get a about 3 more guineas, let them breed freely and move them to another barn away from the chickens. My friend raised the males and she kept the keets separate from chickens so they should not have a problem. It's the female that I raised under a bantam that...
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    Help !- introducing my Guinea Fowl Pair for Valentines Day !!

    @R2elk thank you that is very helpful. I've put the pair next to each other last night and as there was no fighting I put them in the run together today and they seem to be OK together. However the now "spare" other male is free ranging around the farm and seems lost. He's going away from...
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    Help !- introducing my Guinea Fowl Pair for Valentines Day !!

    I have 2 male Guinea Fowl (aged about 2 years old) and one female which I hatched in May 2024 so now aged 9 months. I want to try to breed a pair and I read that guinea fowl tend to mate for life so I want to get the pair right from the beginning. One of the males is a violet colour, the other...
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    Raising guinea fowl keets under a Pekin bantam - help !!

    @sourland thank you. I've noticed this evening that the bantam seems to want to roost up rather than sit with the keet - there's no roosting bar so she's just standing up rather than spreading out for the keet to get under her. The keet keeps trying to get on her back (as it can't get under...
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    Raising guinea fowl keets under a Pekin bantam - help !!

    Just thinking that this is the time when the bantam would naturally have stopped brooding (ie around 3 weeks after she started) so maybe she's now not broody she's not allowing the keets under her anymore and they are dying of cold ? She doesn't seem very interested in the remaining one.....
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    Raising guinea fowl keets under a Pekin bantam - help !!

    @sourland So everything was going OK until today both the keets made it to the 2 week mark and looked good and the bantam stopped brooding and seemed to be looking after them. I did notice that one of the keets didn't seem to eat quite as much, sort of holding back when the bantam called them...
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    Raising guinea fowl keets under a Pekin bantam - help !!

    @sourland thank you, I'll leave them with the hen and keep an eye on them.....
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    Raising guinea fowl keets under a Pekin bantam - help !!

    I've hatched out 2 guinea fowl keets in the incubator (rest didn't make it due to power cut, long story). They are 2 days old. I've got a broody Pekin bantam (she's been broody for about a week). So last night I put the 2 keets and about 3 of the unhatched eggs (just in case) under the bantam...
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    URGENT Hen walking in circles with head down and eyes closed

    @LaFleche thank you for your input, that's really helpful.
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    URGENT Hen walking in circles with head down and eyes closed

    @LaFleche @Kiki @Eggcessive so just an update. So I gave the wry neck hen some rehydration, vitamins, mashed up layers pellets and vitamin E tablets - had to syringe it in. For a couple of days she improved in terms of holding her head up a bit higher and walking straight in the day and then...
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