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    "Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

    I have had several molting already, primarily our Black Star hens. It seemed to come a little early this year.
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    Moving Broody Mum & Eggs

    We have had mixed luck moving broody hens. I guess it depends on the momma’s determination. We’ve found the most successful way is to let her sit wherever she wants until the first egg hatches, then relocate her and all the eggs CAREFULLY to a brooder box. We use removable “trays” inside our...
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    Stray Guinea Joins Our Chicken Flock

    We had the same thing happen here a couple years ago. A stray guinea hen showed up in our yard one day and moved right in with all the other chickens! There is a family about a mile away with a guinea flock, so we assumed she came from there. She was extremely well behaved and never caused any...
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    Guinea coop

    I’ve always used pine shavings and have never had problems. Medium flake size. Just scoop out the nasty bits as needed. Get hanging feeders and water bottles. They can’t knock them over.
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    Playhouse to Coop?

    I posted a thread on this forum a couple years ago called “New Coop Project” that might be helpful. I turned an old rabbit hutch/tree house in to a large coop for some friends of ours. Depending on your location, you could take out one of the walls to create all the ventilation you would need...
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    Should I? Chicken Math Conundrum

    Absolutely! The answer is almost always yes, get more chickens! Right now you have a pretty small flock, so as long as you have the room for them, get more. You’ve got the separate pen already, so integration shouldn’t be a problem. Free ranging will also help because there is less competition...
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    "Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

    Go back to the BYC homepage and click on the articles section. Then open up the “coops” and click on “large coops”. Scroll through a couple pages until you get to an article called “Hot Weather Coops” by @getaclue from June 2017. It will give you some good ideas about what you need to consider...
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    Guinea talk.

    Since I appear to be awake first, I’ll reply first. Congratulations on getting them in the new coop at night and especially on getting them to lay in the nesting box. It took me 2 years to get mine to lay inside the coop! Since yours were just hatched in June, they may not even have an interest...
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    Guinea nest?

    My guineas free range all day but sleep in a “secure” coop at night with all the other chickens. My main hen starts nests wherever she wants to. She has been laying since late February, because our weather is so warm most of the time. Her only successful hatch this year was in a nesting box...
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    Guinea Keet Training

    My guineas come up on the porch and beg me for mealworms. It is by far their favorite treat. Always has been. I don’t know why yours don’t like them. I’ve got 25 baby 3 week old chicks in the brooder that won’t touch mealworms or seed though. I’ve never seen any chicken or guinea who wouldn’t...
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    New to Guineas

    Our youngest guineas are coming up on 6 months old. They have roosted in the coop with their parents and all the chickens since they hatched. A couple weeks ago, all 9 of the young ones decided to sleep on top of the coop one night. It’s about 11’ high. They slept up there 3 or 4 nights, then...
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    How to get a guinea to love you

    I wish I could offer you some advice, but I have no experience with this situation. I did say say a quick prayer that it all works out for you though.
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    i THINK I MAY HAVE GONE OVER BOARD A LITTLE LOL

    I feel for you. We’ve had 2 hens sitting on eggs all month and we weren’t sure if they would hatch or not, so we went to TSC yesterday to pick up “6” chicks to put under the new mommas just in case. When we got to TSC they had one corral left and the associate said that would be it for the year...
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    What can I do with this?

    If it is safe enough to use in a kitchen, it is safe enough to use in a chicken coop. I’ve also used sheet linoleum in a brooder before, but I wasn’t very good at cutting it correctly and it got lots of shavings, etc. underneath the edges. But the surface was super easy to keep clean, easier...
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    What can I do with this?

    Nothing will keep it from getting covered in poop. A couple good coats of high gloss scrubbable paint will make it easier to clean though. Hay and/or shavings will help to absorb some of the poop and smell but will have to be changed out frequently.
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    Are older roosters better with hens than old ones

    If you only have 16 hens, 1 rooster is plenty. Younger roosters are almost always harder on the girls than the more experienced roosters. I agree with others here, whichever is the best behaved rooster can stay, the others get rehomed, unless you plan to keep them confined separately all the time.
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    Chicks range from about 1.5 wks to 3 weeks old- should I switch to a reptile lamp or take away heat?

    The chicks usually need heat for about 4 weeks until they “ feather out”. Since that is going to be different times for yours, you can set up a second brooder for the older ones or, if your current set up is big enough, separate the brooder in half. Put cover of some type over one side. It will...
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    Guinea talk.

    Gertrude abandoned her nest and 23 eggs a few days ago. We think she finally got so aggravated at other hens sitting on her and laying chicken eggs, that it wasn’t worth it to her anymore. That’s just the best reason we could figure out anyway. We aren’t too disappointed, but my sister in law...
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    Treated Lumber

    Treated lumber used to have arsenic in it, many years ago. The chemicals used now (copper, etc.) are much less toxic. My coop/run has 18 treated posts and all the lumber within 18”” of the ground is treated. I haven’t had any birds get sick from it.
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    How to "fix" a swamp??

    Whatever you put in (sawdust, shavings, truckload of cat litter) is going to have to be mucked out once it absorbs the moisture or your problems will remain. In the past, I have dumped pine shavings in for a few days, then shoveled in out. Then got very large shops fans, 3-4’ size, and turned...
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