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    Female Guinea laying but not sitting

    @R2elk @SamLockwood Thank you for your helpful comments. If she does go broody, should I leave the male in the run with her or put him back with the other guineas ?
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    Female Guinea laying but not sitting

    @R2elk It's about 4m wide, 2.5 m high and 8m long - concrete base with litter and some mud. Has a little shed at one end where they can roost up, the eggs are littered on the floor under the roosting area.....
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    Female Guinea laying but not sitting

    I've put together a guinea fowl pair in their own run. Male is about 3, female is 14 months and has started laying for the first time at the beginning of June. I've put a nesting box at ground level in a corner of the indoor part of the run. The run has a concrete floor but about 4 inches of...
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    What to do with solo chick

    OK, before I give up could I try with a different bantam female ? How long before they settle down if they are going to ? Or with 2 different bantam females would that be better or worse ? If that doesn't work I'll try a pen next to the others. Thank you.
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    What to do with solo chick

    @Buckeye Amy OK I put the lone chick in with the most docile female Pekin bantam into a new crate and for the next 20 minutes she bullied the chick until it was cowering in the corner, so I took out the bantam. Not sure what to do now - would it have settled down eventually ? How long should I...
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    What to do with solo chick

    @Buckeye Amy thank you I will give that a try.
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    What to do with solo chick

    I have a healthy Old English Gamefowl (fighting cock) chick that is 5 weeks old and the sole survivor of a bad hatch where the humidity was too low and the rest didn't hatch properly. It is really lonely especially since its only other hatching mate died of wry neck/splay legs at 4 weeks. I'm...
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    Hamburgh rooster injured by fighting

    Update: This rooster has now fully recovered but he really doesn't get on with his roomate who injured him - they were lunging at each other through netting. So I've put him in a run with a hen that I don't want to breed for company and I've let the other rooster stay with the hens for...
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    Questions about hatching some dirty and maybe cold eggs ?

    Update: In the end we put about 15 eggs under the hen but she wasn't properly broody and by the time we realised she was leaving them cold it was too late to bring them to an incubator. But the good news is they are still laying and this time I've made sure they are in clean runs with clean...
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    Hamburgh rooster injured by fighting

    @Eggcessive thank you for this. This morning the comb has dried out but it's really shrunken and very dark red (not fleshy and pale red). Can I put a human antibiotic cream ? Or I have a chlortetracycline Hcl 2.45% spray that my vet gave me for general animal wounds..... I have another pen...
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    Hamburgh rooster injured by fighting

    I have a group of 8 Hamburgh rare breed chickens - 2 roosters and 6 hens. They have gotten along really well for 2 years as a group but now it's spring and the roosters are fighting for the first time. The junior rooster seems to be making a bid for control of the flock from the dominant one...
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    Questions about hatching some dirty and maybe cold eggs ?

    I've hatched quite a few clutches of bantam/duck/guinea fowl eggs under hens and in incubators in the past so have some experience. But I have collected a dozen eggs to try to hatch from my rare breed chickens (Hamburghs) which are an older flock and don't lay that often and I've got a couple...
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    Help !- introducing my Guinea Fowl Pair for Valentines Day !!

    Thank you. I think I need to get a about 3 more guineas, let them breed freely and move them to another barn away from the chickens. My friend raised the males and she kept the keets separate from chickens so they should not have a problem. It's the female that I raised under a bantam that...
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    Help !- introducing my Guinea Fowl Pair for Valentines Day !!

    @R2elk thank you that is very helpful. I've put the pair next to each other last night and as there was no fighting I put them in the run together today and they seem to be OK together. However the now "spare" other male is free ranging around the farm and seems lost. He's going away from...
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    Help !- introducing my Guinea Fowl Pair for Valentines Day !!

    I have 2 male Guinea Fowl (aged about 2 years old) and one female which I hatched in May 2024 so now aged 9 months. I want to try to breed a pair and I read that guinea fowl tend to mate for life so I want to get the pair right from the beginning. One of the males is a violet colour, the other...
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    Raising guinea fowl keets under a Pekin bantam - help !!

    @sourland thank you. I've noticed this evening that the bantam seems to want to roost up rather than sit with the keet - there's no roosting bar so she's just standing up rather than spreading out for the keet to get under her. The keet keeps trying to get on her back (as it can't get under...
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    Raising guinea fowl keets under a Pekin bantam - help !!

    Just thinking that this is the time when the bantam would naturally have stopped brooding (ie around 3 weeks after she started) so maybe she's now not broody she's not allowing the keets under her anymore and they are dying of cold ? She doesn't seem very interested in the remaining one.....
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    Raising guinea fowl keets under a Pekin bantam - help !!

    @sourland So everything was going OK until today both the keets made it to the 2 week mark and looked good and the bantam stopped brooding and seemed to be looking after them. I did notice that one of the keets didn't seem to eat quite as much, sort of holding back when the bantam called them...
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    Raising guinea fowl keets under a Pekin bantam - help !!

    @sourland thank you, I'll leave them with the hen and keep an eye on them.....
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    Raising guinea fowl keets under a Pekin bantam - help !!

    I've hatched out 2 guinea fowl keets in the incubator (rest didn't make it due to power cut, long story). They are 2 days old. I've got a broody Pekin bantam (she's been broody for about a week). So last night I put the 2 keets and about 3 of the unhatched eggs (just in case) under the bantam...
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