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  1. Lady Badlands

    Preventing hens from eating their own eggs?

    I've had that problem and I just give the hen more protein. I have some very good brand Flint River Ranch Cat food. It's got no grain in it and is mainly protein. I gave my egg-eating hen the cat food, in addition to her regular organic feed, and she stopped eating her eggs. Also you might...
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    Black tips to hens comb?

    Every winter, even though my chickens are in a somewhat warm coop, both my roosters get some black scabbing on their combs. I've tried putting neosporin on it (which is just vaseline with some medication), it's always too late and I have found it impossible to put it on preventatively. What...
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    How To Move My Chickens & Guineas Across the Country

    Wow, I'm overwhelmed and incredibly grateful for all of your thoughts and advice for our situation. While whittling down the size of the flock might make it easier to accomplish, I just don't trust that anyone would take care of my babies like we do. We have some wonderful Amish families...
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    How To Move My Chickens & Guineas Across the Country

    If anyone has had any experience moving their flock, we'd really like your help. What kind of enclosures can we put them in inside of a u-haul? We have 22 chickens and 20 guineas who all live together and are used to one another. How can we get them into the truck? We can drive straight...
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    Comment by 'Lady Badlands' in article 'Les Farms - The Barn of all BARNS!'

    Amazing! Thanks so much for posting detailed pictures. Very helpful!
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    Pasty Butt Killing My Keets One by One

    Thanks for everyone's input. They are now two weeks old. I lost a total of 5 of them. The first couple, I think, were stress in shipping (but I'll never know because I didn't check their vents). They died within the first three days. The last three were definitely pasty butt and once I...
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    trouble in paradise

    Awesome news! Glad to hear it. And yes, they bring so much to the lives of those of us who know of them and choose to invite them to join our families. Our adult guineas have integrated so beautifully into our chicken flock and we have 11 more 2 week olds that will join the others once...
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    GUINEA FOWL THREAD

    Well that didn't work. Gotta figure out how to post this photo
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    GUINEA FOWL THREAD

    Here are my adorable little ones. They were two weeks old yesterday!
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    Something killed a guinea yesterday. :(

    Yup, I hear ya. I'm always counting my guineas when I see them. If I don't see 8, then I start to panic.
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    Two guineas splitting from the flock and sleeping on the ground

    I'm going to reply to this posting even though the conversation seems to have ceased. The two of my guineas who were killed by hawks in the past month were ones that were hanging back and not going in with the rest of the flock for protection at night. The first one lasted the first night, but...
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    Something killed a guinea yesterday. :(

    I suspect it was your neighbor's dog. If the dog wasn't used to guineas, he might have wanted to get up close and personal with it to check it out. My dogs will not hurt our guineas or chickens (after lots and lots of training) but they will go after a hawk, owl, or pheasant. So I think they...
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    Pasty Butt Killing My Keets One by One

    Wow, sand as their bedding. That's definitely a possibility. It's amazing how just putting down paper towels, it becomes clear how they have practically covered it with food. But at least now they're pecking at food on their ground rather than playing with and pecking the wood chips...
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    Pasty Butt Killing My Keets One by One

    So far, no responses from anyone on this site, but to update, I took each of the remaining 11 keets out of their box and examined their vents. Two of them had rock hard fecal matter attached, so I used a warm wash cloth to dissolve and then put a tiny amount of coconut oil on their vents. I...
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    Pasty Butt Killing My Keets One by One

    This is so disturbing. A week ago last Thursday, I received 16 one-day old keets. My brooder box has one of those wonderful Brinsea Brooder shelters which the keets go under and provides the exact same warmth as a mama hen would. They have water and two feeders of food. There are wood chips...
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    Comment by 'Lady Badlands' in article 'Zaks Coop'

    Beautiful coop and wonderful tour of it. Thank you for your generosity!
  17. Lady Badlands

    Help :( sick silkie. Hopefully not merek"s

    Mareks is curable with Colloidal Silver which acts as an anti-viral. I've cured two chickens with it. Here's where I posted their two stories. https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/566250/more-on-colloidal-silver-and-mareks It's important to keep Colloidal Silver in your medical kit. It is...
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    Odd guinea hen behavior

    My guineas started laying between 5 and 6 months. I think your guinea hen is fine. She's just hanging with another mama. Birds know what they're doing better than we can judge. Best just to enjoy watching and learning their behaviors. I always have one guinea hen that hangs back while the...
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    Processionary caterpillars and guinea fowl

    No worries about this. Guineas and other birds know what they can eat and what they can't eat. If the caterpillars are toxic for them, they won't partake.
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    Hens staying outside coop too late.

    I don't claim to be an expert, but I've had my chickens for over 5 years now in severe winter weather (SD). I have 4 heat lamps in the coop and two fan heaters blowing 24/7 during the single digit and below zero temps. My coop is old and there are always tiny leaks where frigid air gets in...
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