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    I'm so tired of raccoons this year!

    I had to put one of my young hens down this evening. She'd been raked pretty badly by a coon about a week ago and I thought I had her on the mend and ready to be back with the rest of my birds, but when I put her back out this evening I realized that while the wounds had healed the damage was...
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    Silkie Roosters for free re-homing

    I'm about an hour west of STL in MO - do you know how far from STL you are in IL? I had a Silkie Ameracuna cross roo that coyotes got last summer and it broke my heart! He was the most gentle and the sweetest roo I've ever had!
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    New Keet Help Please! It Can't Stand Up :(

    I have seven new keets and two of them are having real problems - they can't stand! They had a hard time coming out of their shells and we had to help them in the end because their membranes started to dry. They peep and their feathers are dry, but they aren't fluffed. They are just laying...
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    Questions about incubating Guinea Fowl Eggs!

    I need some help PLEASE!!! I have keets hatching in an incubator now (this is my first time hatching) one we tried to help along and rushed it and it died :( The second one has started and it's been going since about 9:00 last night - when do I start to worry that it's been too long? I don't...
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    How Do I Know When They'll Hatch

    Thank you PeepsCA! She had only gotten off of the nest when the neighbors approached it and they were worried she wouldn't come back so we went right over and scooped them up; they were still warm when we put them in the incubator. I have one more probably really dumb question - because my...
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    How Do I Know When They'll Hatch

    I'm new to the site and I'm fairly new to guineas, I've only had mine for less than a year and of my original batch only two remain. I also know nothing about incubating eggs, but I have a hen that had gone missing, and has since turned up at a neighbors on a nest of 22 eggs, but she's...
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