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    Guinea keet and tree roosting question

    Thanks! My husband votes yes on the daily night catch idea. Lol- that will be fun! Hopefully the bird just gets used to it!
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    Guinea keet and tree roosting question

    So, my Guineas showed up with one, fully featherd keet today. I assume until today the hen had it in her best, but tonight they all went to roost in their favorite tree. The keet is too young to fly up there, so we caught it. I feel terrible taking it from its flock....... Any advice? Should I...
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    Crusty chicken head?

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    Crusty chicken head?

    One of my Salmon Faverolle's looks like she took a mudbath- which she could have, but I just want to make sure she doesn't have a disease. She acts normal, is the roosters' favorite and I also feed fermented chicken feed- on the wet side, so she could be just dirty. Opinions?
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    Please help- guinea hatch

    Thanks a lot for your input. I wish I had a broody hen, but not yet. The whole flock ( chickens and guineas) is still young- born beginning of March. Those guineas had been sitting on the nest for a solid month- amazed that any of the eggs are even fertile.
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    Please help- guinea hatch

    Ok, so these are some tough eggs. Just a bit of background: my guineas were sitting on them for the longest time but recently abandoned the nest( one guinea hatched, disappeared and then the hens stopped sitting consistently). Eggs were cold to the touch when I brought them inside and popped...
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    Broody guinea and hatching question

    Yes, I guess a predator could have gotten to it, but I would have expected to hear some guinea fowl racket or rooster crowing in that case. Thanks for your input
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    Broody guinea and hatching question

    Hi, I am totally new to this and currently a bit stumped. So, two guinea fowl have been sitting on eggs(mostly theirs, some "stolen" from the chickens if they happened to lay on the coop floor). The other day I made them furious by candling a few and there were a few embryos developing- yay...
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    Poultry Predator Identification

    One tree roosting chicken decapitated and eviscerated last night. Pretty quietly. Carcass left next to where the chickens roost. Other chicken missing all day, turns out it is alive, despite the huge amount of its feathers I had found, but he has either lost an eye or has it badly injured...
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    Newly hatched chick question

    So, one of my new chicks THE ONLY cream brabanter that made it , has a few patches of yolk or other gunk stuck to its feathers and one eye keeps getting gunky and closing up. Otherwise it seems happy and healthy and full of new chick attitude! I have been wiping off the eye gunk occasionally-...
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    Day 24 on a chicken egg hatch

    I opened up the egg a bit at the air bubble. Chick is still in there under the membrane. I still see some blood vessel on that membrane. It is breathing. I figure I would wait and see till tomorrow......
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    Day 24 on a chicken egg hatch

    Ok- egg surgery here I come. Thanks so much for your response!
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    Day 24 on a chicken egg hatch

    This is my first time doing this, so maybe I am being impatient. Most eggs hatched, but there are four that haven't. I candled them: three definitely have chicks in them, but I didn't see movement , fourth egg I saw a tiny bit of movement. Should I just wait another day? I have no clue how to...
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    Laying eggs in a broody's nest?

    I will try to be delicate. As I said, those guineas are being VERY serious about this brooding thing. I haven't seen them leave the nest once. They tag team- I find this amazing ! (Apart from the fact that I now have access to zero eggs)
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    Laying eggs in a broody's nest?

    Do you think looking in the evening, with gloves, would create less of a disturbance for the guinea hen? Thanks for your advice! New to this fowl thing and their behavior is fascinating to me!!!!
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