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    If you could communicate a thought to your chickens, what would it be?

    Eat the weeds.
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    WhatsupFlorida?

    How do you package your eggs if not in a carton?
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    WhatsupFlorida?

    NotTheBee.com has a story from Florida. Proposed: The meat chickens produced on small farms will be sold with head, feet, and entails intact. https://notthebee.com/article/come-see-how-the-state-of-florida-wants-small-farmers-to-sell-chickens-from-now-on
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    Second season pearl guineas nesting

    Thank you for recording your observations. Our pipping keet did not make it and we have other chicks under the broody, as well as keets purchased from Tractor Supply. Mother hen is tolerant of such a large family.
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    Second season pearl guineas nesting

    Your bird yard sounds like a tough room!
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    Second season pearl guineas nesting

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    Second season pearl guineas nesting

    Today I found a pipper underneath the broody orpington. Exciting to see!
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    What do ppl do for rattlesnakes on farms?

    The poultry yard snake count is now three: Two rats, swallowing my guinea eggs out of the ground nest, and one rattlesnake found between the small coops where the meat turkeys are kept. In catching any snake, control of the head is key. In the rattlesnake's case, trap the head right behind the...
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    Second season pearl guineas nesting

    Wednesday under the heat dome, and the rat snakes are out. Two found in my guinea approved nesting conditions. I still have eggs left, but no sign of nesting behavior. No nice little clutch of eggs. No worries--a buff orp in the hen house is broody, so I put some guinea eggs underneath her...
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    Second season pearl guineas nesting

    It is Friday and of my two "guinea friendly" nest sites in the coop, one clutch is growing in number. I might try to adjust the second nest site to make it attractive to the females.
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    First hawk attack

    Guineafowl will screech their alarm and continue to screech until the overhead leaves.
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    Second season pearl guineas nesting

    In the guinea coop I have a four sided masonite lean-to. It forms a top, back wall, side walls and a long hinged lid covers the front. The side walls are triangles. DH made a little gate in the large lid and the remaining screened lid is now covered in cardboard. It is very spacious inside...
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    Raising Guinea Fowl 101

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    Blind turkey

    My experience as a backyard homesteader: the turkey poults went into the brooder with chicks and keets. No blackhead disease. Also my experience: A blind poult may have more going on in its little body than may be overcome, and the outcome will be sad. I hope for the best.
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    Second season pearl guineas nesting

    Thank you for your response Bob. I don't find many Storey Publications to read about guinea fowl, so my own eyes and the posts here are my textbooks.
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