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    Raising Guinea Fowl 101

    Thanks, I tried incubation 1 year but din't have any luck with 2 different batches of eggs. I was thinking of just letting the hens hatch the eggs and then raising the keets in a brooder for a while but wonder about reintroducing brooded keets/poults into the flock. Would they be accepted or...
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    Raising Guinea Fowl 101

    That never happened to me. I had one guinea set on eggs that were under a truck camper shell and I went by there every day. I had others lay them in the chicken nest boxes and would have to get her to climb out of there every day so I could check for chicken eggs. That got to be a little scary...
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    Raising Guinea Fowl 101

    Forgot to mention I checked 10 eggs they other day and had 8 fertilized.
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    Raising Guinea Fowl 101

    You sound like your doing a good job there.Can you tell me how you raise them or do you just let the hens raiser them? Last night I was in the coop(I go in there just after dark so they can get used to me) and was petting one of the girls,she was up on a perch about 5 feet off the floor. I...
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    Raising Guinea Fowl 101

    I tried incubating a couple of years ago and didn't have much luck.Thought I'd go the natural route this time.I'll take a look at some eggs tonight. Thanks for the info.
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    Research On Goose / Duck Vent Sexing... Pics

    Reminds me of when I was volunteering for the division of wildlife and we counted and sexed wild canadian geese.We would take their head and tuck it under a wing(the geese do this when they sleep I recall). This would calm them down and we would hand them off to each other like a football. I...
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    Raising Guinea Fowl 101

    I bought 7 guineas last week from a couple who have had them for about a year now.They said they were just starting to lay and were getting 1 egg a day.I brought them home and got 4 eggs the first day and its been varying between 3-4 eggs/day. Composition of the flock seems to be 6 hens and 1...
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    Anyone from Missouri?

    I'm in Bolivar.
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    Missouri goats

    We have nigerian dwarf wethers for sale for $75. All are up to date on shots and free range on our 23 acre farm. They have been raised on grass and grass hay.Some have horns some are disbudded.
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    MISSOURI ! ! !

    Moved to Bolivar about a year ago. Just starting the new flock now with 7 guineas and 5 embden goslings. Guineas are laying-got 3 eggs yesterday-just abouty a year old. Will have to build a nest area for them in the coop. Guy I bought them from said he was getting 1 egg a day. They must have...
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    I got a mini egg!

    Since the molt started in November, I have averaged 1 egg every other day from 6 birds.That recently went up to 1/day and ywesterday i got 2 eggs one green from my Aurucan/amerucana which hasn't laid an egg since July! Today i went out and found this incredibly small egg.
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    Raising Guinea Fowl 101

    I have 24 guinea eggs in my incubator now.2 different batches. One batch of 14 went in on April 25 and the second batch went in on May 4. I have a piece of cardboard running down the center of the incubator to divide them. Yesterday I had 1 egg from the first batch poke a small hole in the egg...
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    *CHICKS are HERE!!!* Egg Candling Pics: Progression Though Incubation

    Thanks for those pics I candled the eggs my broody was sitting on and really didn't see much except for the space near the fat end of the egg(its day 20 and I'm hatching guineas) I was beginning to think they were bad but they pretty much look like your day 17 and 18 eggs. Not so worried now.
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    THanks for the response Perchie girl,I'll look up Peepsca.Yeah I know about the game bird starter.I'd hate to through away the 7 eggs I have under the hen now.Do you think taking those eggs and putting them in an incubator would work?
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    This must be one of the biggest threads on the board! I posted this on the raising guineas thread but am also posting here hoping I can get as many ideas/answers as possible. Thanks in advance for your replies: My 2 guinea hens have started laying-2 eggs/day and I think I lucked out because...
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