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    Guineas and Chicken

    We have had guineas for about 8 years now. Congratulations on getting yours. 15 is a good number to give you a reasonable size flock by the time they are grown, since you will most likely lose some to predation (I'm assuming you're going to be providing them with free range area). We have...
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    Noise and Roaming Tendency- are guineas right for me?

    I love my guineas but we have 40 acres. If someone had guineas next to me on a two or three acre lot, I would be very ticked off (ha ha, tick pun!). I think they are way too loud and wander-y for that kind of spacing. Keep 'em in mind for a future place, though. They are lots of fun.
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    Is a Rooster a "must have"?

    Roosters are a gamble, some are mean and nasty and that is unfortunately the only kind we've had here after trying multiple times. It all depends on your personal circumstances. If you have no small children who can get hurt, and you have patience to try a few times, you could get something...
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    "Baby" photos!

    They look so cute! Was there a thread somewhere talking about how you set up the incubator? Congrats on the hatch!
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    Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

    Go buy one more dozen. This will cause your birds to lay, on the same principle as getting in the shower if you want the phone to ring.
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    why are they abandoning the nest?

    Sorry you did not get an answer, and I don't have one either. That's just plain weird behavior. Maybe this thread coming back to the top will give someone else a chance to see it. You say you make sure they are not bothered...what about at night? Just throwing out ideas here...
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    9 week olds are not roosting, why?

    Sounds pretty normal, some are slower to roost than others. If it's a problem for you, go in at night, pick them up and set them on the roost. They will get the idea (but they will get the idea eventually anyway). Our ten new ones, about the same age as yours, are not roosting yet. In our...
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    Can I feed older chickens grower food??

    Yes, chickens can be fed on grower food forever. It's not necessarily cost-efficient and for hens you need additional calcium such as oyster shell, but it's certainly not going to hurt anything. Please be careful about introducing a chicken from somewhere random (I'm assuming the ones you...
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    Poop board convert *warning-graphic/gross poop pictures*

    No reason why it couldn't work, although you might not like stooping down so much to grab the eggs. Since the poop boards will stick out around 24 inches from the wall, it will be harder to reach back under there than to reach into a nest on a regular open wall. You could get around this...
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    benefits of guineas?

    Of course you can. Here's what you need to do: - First, catch one hundred ticks. - Second, catch one hundred bees or wasps. - Third, catch your guineas and put them in an easily controlled area with no other food or distractions. - Now alternate between: 1. Releasing one tick at a time and...
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    Flock Update Chickens & Ducks - A Positive Post

    The chickens: 7 adult hens, with one four-year-old still here from my original batch of 4 (long story, got straight run when we were newbies, ended up with mostly roosters!). The other six are two years old (or is it three??? Time flies when you're having fun!). 4-5 eggs a day at this...
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    Poop board convert *warning-graphic/gross poop pictures*

    We converted our chicken coop this weekend to use your idea, and it's working great. I have the powder form of PDZ. A few things I didn't realize, just for anyone reading: - the PDZ soaks up the moisture and creates kind of a "chunk" of stuff that you have to get out of there. So don't...
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    Cannot decide what to do with this!

    I'm with the "let 'em hatch" bunch. If you take the nest they will just make another where you can't find it, and then you will in all likelihood lose that female, unless your predator load is a lot lighter than mine. I do not think you will have trouble selling them. We're in the same...
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    First time with baby chicks: I am a nervous wreck!

    Glad things are going better for you, they sound very cute. Some do die sometimes in that first day or two and there's just not a lot to be done about it. Good luck with the fair!
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    Too Roo or Not to Roo?

    You will most likely get a roo by accident. Sexing baby chicks is inexact. I'm also prejudiced since each of the three accidental roos that we raised carefully from babies, in three separate episodes, turned mean and eventually had to be killed so we and/or our visiting grandchildren could...
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    Accidental homemade dried worms

    OK, this is one of those gross yet funny things that I think my fellow chicken people will appreciate. We have a large enclosed concrete-floor patio outside the front door of our house. I have found that whenever I do a good seasonal sweeping of this porch, the chickens gather up outside the...
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    Beautiful Australorp Cockerel is listless, won't stand, drooping head. Lots of info. HELP!

    I'm no expert but those are some of the botulism symptoms. This link had an interesting recommendation for Epsom salts, thought you might find it useful: http://www.poultryhelp.com/botulism.html. I hope someone else will come along with some ideas. I have some Black Australorp hens and they...
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    What? Chickens can't eat clover?

    Hi Kim, you may get more answers on a separate thread, but basically I would say that is fine. If your chickens are going to ever set foot outside, they can and will pick up wild bird cooties at some point. Possibly hippie cooties as well :-) Now, I'm assuming that you're going to have them...
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    Please critique my photos~ are any of these good enough to compete in contests?

    Second and fourth from last in first batch. The fourth from last because it is rather unusual when you really look, there is water on both sides of the chairs as if they are about to wash away. The horizon is a smidge off, I think, though, but you could fix that. The second from last for...
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    A Note of Caution

    This made me laugh and read it out loud to my husband. Hoppity, hoppity, hoppity...that must have been a sight to see. They are a bunch of doofuses (don't you think the plural of doofus should be doofi, like cacti?), but on the other hand they just hawk-alerted 10 minutes ago and saved my...
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