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    keet possible broken leg from guinea attack

    I experienced a very similar incident with one of my keets. Not only was it hobbling but it couldn’t fly up into the tree with its mother and siblings (they REFUSE the coop no matter what I do). So I picked it up…HUGE mistake! Mama came out of the tree, screeching like a banshee, both feet...
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    Chickens and guinea together?

    Take R2elk ‘s advice: Keep them separated, it will be far less stressful for the chickens and you! It’s cute when they are tiny keets but by 3 months they are already learning they can bully chickens much larger than themselves if so inclined (some will, some won’t); by the time they are full...
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    Chickens and guinea together?

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    Review by 'tnctx' in article 'Top Ways To Keep Your Chickens Cool In Summer'

    Great info for both beginning and seasoned chicken tenders!
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    Review by 'tnctx' in article 'Keeping Chickens Without Free Ranging'

    Great info, well written. Thanks for sharing - from Tilli in the Texas Hill Country.
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    What’s wrong with this hen? Egg bound?

    Update on Laverne. She has salpingitis. She is resting well and appears to be in no pain BUT the overall prognosis isn’t bright. Her laying days over and we’re hearing longevity is in the 4-6 month range. We will love her for as long as she feels like hanging around. She and her sister Shirley...
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    What’s wrong with this hen? Egg bound?

    Hi! I need some help with my 2y/o Red Sex Link hen Lavern. She is lethargic, poor appetite, pale comb and wattles, frothy greenish-yellow poop, and she has passed three neat-like masses. I think she may be egg bound. She had a 20 min epsom salt bath after which she passed the third and largest...
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    What’s wrong with this hen? Egg bound?

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    Indigenous Guinea Fowl rescued keet

    @R2elk is an amazing source of information, he has helped me so many times.
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    Indigenous Guinea Fowl rescued keet

    Beautiful Guinea. Is it a regular helmeted Guinea? The helmet and wattles look so different from the usual guineas I’ve seen.
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    I'm not going to survive through raising these babies

    I feel for you! My last year’s keets had amazing parents that raised (most of) them to adulthood. It was my first experience with guineas and they made it easy. This year there have been five different nests that were abandoned, I’m guessing bc they were bothered by predators. I was able to...
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    Guinea sleeping on roof

    The plan was to enclose the deck for a permanent place for them. It’s not a people deck, it’s covered and on the second story. Mama has stayed in the tree most of the day just watching the flock from her perch. When we got Mama and Daddy in April it was our first experience with “owning”...
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    Guinea sleeping on roof

    “confusion” LOL! Our confusion of 12 consists of Mama, Daddy and their five almost 11wk old babies which I now call the Goonies, plus five 4 mo old Boneheads. They’ve been roosting on the railing of a 2nd story covered deck. Suddenly last night they were all in the big live oak tree about 20 ft...
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    Unique Chicken Eyes

    I’m wondering about my two Black Sexlinks eyes: one has “normal” eyes and the other one has unusual all black eyes.
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    Huge Eggs!

    I’m dying to crack it open to see if has a double yolk.
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