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    Failed Hatch Guinea fowl

    Anyone have any better luck hatching guinea fowl?
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    Three Broody Hens mixing and sharing clutches.

    As long as the hens arent attacking one another putting them together in the same coop shouldn't pose any issues. The coop dimensions seems big enough to house all three of them comfortably with their small clutch of chicks.
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    Failed Hatch Guinea fowl

    I just had a failed hatched of a clutch of guinea fowl eggs. I did an eggtopsy (breaking them into my compost bin) after the expected hatched day but not a single one developed. Granted I did not candle them this batch so my fault for not removing the duds. and they were collected over the...
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    Heretitary behaviors

    Anyone else notice heretitory behaviors from one or more parent in their chicks. I hav one very firendly roo, Houdini. One year old He has always been very friendly, and this year we hatched out eggs and one chick is very much the same. We've been caling it houdini jr.even through it doesn't...
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    Book reccomendations

    Hi, Im looking for book reccomendations. I;m looking for a indepth encyclopedia of chicken breeds including pictures of roo, hen, and chick and egg color and laying rates of each breed listed. currectly i have:"The Concise Encyclopedia of Poultry Breeds: An Illustrated Directory of over 100...
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    Hi.

    Hi I'm L.A.W. I've had chickens most of my life (my parents had chickens growing up) save the four years I was away in college. I currently have around forty chickens, 4 turkeys, 4 guineas, and 4 geese (unknown breed and I suspect are all female which ruins my hatching plans for this year)...
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