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    Guinea keet and tree roosting question

    So, my Guineas showed up with one, fully featherd keet today. I assume until today the hen had it in her best, but tonight they all went to roost in their favorite tree. The keet is too young to fly up there, so we caught it. I feel terrible taking it from its flock....... Any advice? Should I...
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    Crusty chicken head?

    One of my Salmon Faverolle's looks like she took a mudbath- which she could have, but I just want to make sure she doesn't have a disease. She acts normal, is the roosters' favorite and I also feed fermented chicken feed- on the wet side, so she could be just dirty. Opinions?
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    Please help- guinea hatch

    Ok, so these are some tough eggs. Just a bit of background: my guineas were sitting on them for the longest time but recently abandoned the nest( one guinea hatched, disappeared and then the hens stopped sitting consistently). Eggs were cold to the touch when I brought them inside and popped...
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    Broody guinea and hatching question

    Hi, I am totally new to this and currently a bit stumped. So, two guinea fowl have been sitting on eggs(mostly theirs, some "stolen" from the chickens if they happened to lay on the coop floor). The other day I made them furious by candling a few and there were a few embryos developing- yay...
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    Newly hatched chick question

    So, one of my new chicks THE ONLY cream brabanter that made it , has a few patches of yolk or other gunk stuck to its feathers and one eye keeps getting gunky and closing up. Otherwise it seems happy and healthy and full of new chick attitude! I have been wiping off the eye gunk occasionally-...
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    Day 24 on a chicken egg hatch

    This is my first time doing this, so maybe I am being impatient. Most eggs hatched, but there are four that haven't. I candled them: three definitely have chicks in them, but I didn't see movement , fourth egg I saw a tiny bit of movement. Should I just wait another day? I have no clue how to...
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    Laying eggs in a broody's nest?

    So, here is what I am wondering: One of my guinea hens has gone broody in my chicken coop. The chickens and guineas used to lay their eggs all in the same nest. Once the guinea went broody I found maybe two eggs in other spots, but now what I observe is this: All the hens seem to exit the coop...
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    Looks like egg plus membrane of sort is sticking out of my hen - HELP!

    I know it's hard to see but this is what it looks like. What to do????
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    Rooster behaving strange....

    We have a flock of chickens, raised together as hatchlings. There are a number of roosters who are "still " getting along more or less. One of them had a leg injury and we kept him in the house for three days. Ever since returning him to the flock( the leg looks like it is improving slowly ), he...
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    Guinea hen injured/sick

    Hi, So here is the scenario: We have a flock of guineas, hatched Feb 26th2015. They JUST started laying eggs within the last week and at about the same time ( at least a week, maybe a bit longer) one of the guineas started limping. This progressed over a few days into now, not walking at all...
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    Just joined today

    Hi, I am Dani and am glad I finally got around to joining this forum. There is so much great information here- thank you! My family and I are starting a small homestead in Illinois and have 5 salmon faverolles, 9 German Spitzhauben,2 buff Orpingtons and 17 French guinea fowl . So far so good...
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