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    Housing free-range guineas for winter.

    First of all I have to say that the dumbest thing I ever did was raise guinea chicks in my house this summer. I usually raise them at the barn. So I have guineas trying to get in the back door, messing up the decks, eating my flowers, digging up the lawn, peering in the windows following me as...
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    en Behavior-Can they tell which eggs are theirs?

    Maybe an odd question because I know people stick extra eggs under hens to hatch. Background: I had two hens on same nest. One hen was a bad mom, so I removed her. The remaining hen only hatched out half the eggs and abandoned the rest. I am hatching these out and the chicks are a different...
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    Weak day-old chick. Need encouragement/advise

    I decided to hatch out the eggs my hen deserted using the electric skillet method. Within 10 minutes one little chick pecked a hole in its egg and eventually got out the egg over a five hour period with help. I knew I shouldn't help, but I was afraid it would die if I left it overnight - the...
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    Miniature hens-is there such a thing?

    Has anyone tried breeding for very small chickens? I am just wondering because my Duckwing Bantams are very small and I am thinking of putting the smallest hen and rooster together to see if I can breed down to an even smaller bird. Firgures ... I already have mini-horses If I can scale down...
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    Mean Mother Hen

    I had two broody hens sitting side-by-side on 24 eggs. The eggs started hatching yesterday evening and when I got back from the feed store with chick food, one of the chicks had been pecked to death. I noticed that one of the hens was pecking the babies so I removed her back to the flock. The...
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