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    Adult Color

    I have a hen who has just hatched keets. The eggs are from my guineas which are descended from some babies I got at a flea market several years ago---your basic mutts. The originals were all pearl grey as are these parents with one of the three mother having a white chest. In the past they have...
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    What do you think, is this a fertile egg?

    This egg is from one of my guineas. The balstodisc is pretty clear in the pictures. Do y'all think it is---or was---it got scrambled for supper fertile?
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    How To Tell If Guinea Eggs Are Fertile

    I have five guineas. In the last couple of weeks two have stopped coming to the roost and are not around. I think they are off on nests. Yesterday I followed a third and found her nest with 20 eggs. Today it has 21 so she is still adding to the clutch. Problem is I think all five of mine are...
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    Suddenly almost no eggs

    I have 21 hens. 15 of them are 2 years old, 6 are their chicks from last year so a year old. We have always had a rooster but about a month ago he died (natural stuff, he had had a lame leg from the time he was small and was declining all winter). We bought a new one and quarantined him for a...
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    Four young Roosters near Knoxville TN need new homes

    Hatched our first chicks this summer, 13 of 'em. We always hear that law of averages says if you hatch half will be hens and half roosters. Well they were, 6 hens, 7 roosters. We are keeping one and two of the boys have gone to new homes already but we still have 4 that need to move on. Their...
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    Seting up a broody nest

    I've had one hen go broody earlier this year. She hatched 5 chicks the first weekend in May. Now I have another who has been on flat and growling on fake eggs for two days. If she continues to be serious, I plan to give her some real eggs Friday. First hen had 5 unhatched eggs, not sure why, I...
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    Crushed egg, any hope? Need suggestions fast!

    Set a broody on the evening of April 13. Today one of the eggs is crushed, (looks like maybe she stepped on it) membrane is showing, about a quarter of the shll is off but the chick is still alive. Any hope for it? Thinking about wrapping it in a damp paper towel under a heat lamp (no incubator...
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    Broken egg in a broody's nest

    I have a broody that I set Friday night (4/14). Went out today and could smell an odd smell so I lifted her and she had broken one of the eggs. I took the remaining eggs out and cleaned out the nest material. One egg was a mess, stuck inside the shell of the broken one so I discarded it. I wiped...
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    Meyer's New Catalog Arrived

    The 2012 Meyer catalog arrived yesterday. Kinda made me nostalgic for this time last year when I was still building the coop and pondering what breeds to get! I don't plan to order this year, any chicks that I get next spring will be coming from under one of the chicks I ordered last spring I...
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    Guineas and Tick Control

    Gave my next door neighbor a dozen eggs today (which, along with making sure he tolerated a crowing rooster got me 50 lb of oats in return) While he was looking at the coop I mentioned having considered guineas for tick control but was not sure how people would react. Turns out he got Lyme...
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    Oats

    My neighbor just gave me 50 lb of oats for my chickns from a crop he grew just down the road from my house. (This came when I gave him a dozen eggs to endear him to my hens and my crowing rooster ---clearly it worked ). I give my chickens scratch, a handful or so a day to give them something to...
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    Finally, eggs!!

    So, after all the thinking and planning and building, all the pouring over chicken catalogues and that trip to the post office in the early early morning and a month of brooder in the house and ....today they're 19 weeks and two of them started paying back. I figure these cost me about $500...
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    When Can I Expect Eggs and From Who?

    My pullets are 16 weeks. I have a total 17, of several breeds, 4 Wyndotts, (Gold Lace, Silver Lace, Blue Lace Red and Columbian) 2 Americanas, 2 Welsummers a Dominique, a Golden Campine, a Blue Andalusian, a Golden Comet, a Sicilian Buttercup, a Partridge Rock, a Golden lakenvelder a Buff...
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    Cyprus Mulch In An Outdoor Run

    Anyone know a reason not to use cyprus mulch (as opposed to wood chips ore straw) in an open air outdoor run?
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    Fencing the run. Will this work?

    I’m building a run. It’ll be about 350 sq ft attached to the coop. The coop and the area where the run will go are pictured below. Therun will basically extend out front of the coop (the shape will be a bit odd, basically two overlapping squares as I’m trying to fit it around the trees). I plan...
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    So, Tell Me About Golden Comets

    I'm about 99% sure my Meyer Meal Maker Program free chick is a Golden Comet. Pictures are below. I've read the catalog description and I know she's a hybrid layer but what else can y'all tell me about them? Personality? Habits? Aggressiveness? She has always been one of the friendlier chicks but...
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    Ingredients in Medicated Chick Starter

    Went to the Co-op store today to pick up some chick starter. I've been using small 5 lb bags but a larger 25 lb or so would be a lot cheaper in the long run. The small bags say "medicated" on them. The larger ones did not but the guy in the store assured me they were and told me "look at the...
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    Meyer Chicks Arrived Today (photo heavy)

    Got the call form the Post Office at 6 AM. All 18 made it through fine. Was interested in seeing what the free chick from the Meal Maker would be. I'm not real good at telling but I think it's a Golden Buff/Red Star/Golden Comet. A few photos... And she's just sleeping!!
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    Today at Meyer Hatchery.....

    They're packing and shipping my chicks!
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    Thoughts on Roosts?

    I have 18 chicks (a mixture of several breeds Wyandottes, Maran, Plymouth Rock, Welsummer, Orpington, Dominique, Campine, Buttercup, Lakenvelder, Andalusian, and Americana/ Easter Eggers) coming the first of May. Been working on my coop since last summer and with a break over the winter I'm...
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