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  1. Beakrr

    Heat

    I have 14 chicks in the brooder. It’s 90+ in the daytime and 70’s at night. The birds are 4wks old. I also have an outdoor “grow-out” coop for the small chicks that I’ve used in the past. Right now, the babies are in a lean-to built off the side of my work shop. I turn off the heat lamp in the...
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    Guard dog suggestions?

    I have about two dozen birds. I have confirmed sightings of foxes, possums, raccoons, hawks, and roaming dogs on my property. They have taken 20 birds over 2 years. It’ll be calm for weeks and weeks and then there will be a massacre. I have 4.75 acres. I have a dog that stays out. She’s a...
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    Peg leg guinea

    I have pictures in post #3. No peeling.
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    Peg leg guinea

    KY. Sunny and 75 today. They spent the first 7 weeks in my garage with a lamp. I don’t know what’s up with the feet coloration. All 7 guineas have mottled feet colors. I believe they came from a big hatchery in Iowa. Forget the name. This guinea’s knee (I guess it’s a knee) looks blown out and...
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    Peg leg guinea

    Nope. Chick starter. I’ve got 6 other guineas. They are heathy as can be. I’m wondering if this one didn’t get roughed up in the brooder. It was pretty physical in there when they all got to darting around when I would swap out their food/water. I’m not so hung up on how it happened. I’m just...
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    Peg leg guinea

    What kind of deficiency? Like nutritional?
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    Peg leg guinea

    It’s been 2 weeks. Poor guinea is still gimpy. It gets around on one leg ok but I feel bad for it. I free range in the afternoons and I’m afraid this one will be easy pickens should a predator ever show up. I just put this batch in the coop and they’ll stay in there for 2 weeks before they go...
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    Wasting feed in brooder

    I didn’t know about adding water. Good idea. They’re all in the coop now, so problem solved :p
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    Wasting feed in brooder

    Here’s the feeder.
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    Wasting feed in brooder

    4 week old guineas and chickens in my brooder. Hanging feeder about 4” off floor. I was sitting it on the ground but they kept using it for a toilet. They are wasting a TON of feed and won’t eat it off the ground. The chick starter has crumbles and what I’m calling “dust”. They’ll eat the...
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    Peg leg guinea

    I have a 4 week old guinea that is a nice, healthy-bodied bird. For whatever reason, it is limping around and standing on one leg. I took it out of the main brooder and moved it to Misfit Island with my two runty chicks and 4 pheasant chicks because it’s like a match of rugby inside the main...
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    Scrambled

    :confused:I set some eggs on 4/8 in my classroom at school. They did pretty good through that Friday. I came in on Saturday around 2:00 and the incubator was over 110 degrees. I knew the school shut the A/C off on the weekends, but I didn’t think it’d get that warm on the bottom floor of the...
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    Last egg won’t hatch

    Say hello to Slowpoke Rodriguez. Finally made it out a full 20 hours after the last one. My first hatch ever and I have 100% hatched. Now I hope they make it to adulthood.
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    HATCH DAY!!!!!!

    That’s awesome! My two children got to witness their first hatch over the past 24 hours as well. I think it’s funny that they refer to all the chicks as “him”. They’ll be surprised when a bunch end up as “her’s”. Congratulations!
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    Last egg won’t hatch

    It is internally pipped. I just candled again this morning. I thought I’d go to bed last night and wake up to a hatched chick, but no such luck. When I was candling it just now it peeped in my hand. There’s still hope. I reloaded the incubator with water to get the humidity up. And now we wait...
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    Last egg won’t hatch

    I had a very successful hatch today. 10 out of 11 have hatched. The eggs ranged from 3/8-3/11. I set them on 3/11. I have one egg dated 3/8 that hasn’t pipped. I thought it might be dead, so I candled it a few hours ago and saw movement. I’m going to wait 24 more hours and then what should I do...
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    Candling-is this ok?

    Looks like everything was ok! Hooray for 1st hatches. This little bugger is a day early. I’ve got at least 4 more pipped. My kids thought this was the coolest thing:thumbsup
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    Can’t get humidity up

    I’m not sure how to get sponges half in/half out with all the wire mesh that’s in the bottom. What do you recommend?
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    Will a Large Black Rat snake try to kill my full sized BA's???

    But once it warms up and momma comes out of hibernation, they put up more of a fight. I about soiled myself grabbing ahold of this one. Holding it up in the air messes up the perspective. It was the biggest one I’ve ever seen. Oh the things we do to be brave for our kids! Hahah:eek:
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    Will a Large Black Rat snake try to kill my full sized BA's???

    If you get them while it’s cold you can relocate them pretty easily...
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