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    Guineas as watch dogs

    My guineas and my chickens are shareing living quarters this winter and so far they are getting along fine. This spring I plan to turn the guineas out to roam. I have EE and golden comet hens .I am getting a few blue/green eggs now. My guineas were hatched in July and august. I have 12 guineas...
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    my guineas in the tree

    I like to see my guineas in the walnut tree. I have 14 guineas and there are 7 in this photo. one is almost hide, can you see her?
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    strange chickens stopped laying

    I have 10 EE pullets, hatched 3/15/2010. one hen started laying in October. I am pretty sure 4 maybe 5 hens layed eggs for 2/3 weeks not regular but enough to say they were laying. now all the pullets have stopped laying. no eggs in the last 2 weeks. I have 11 red sex links , last years birds...
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    two hatches in one pen strange birds

    I have a story about my two hatches of guineas, 1. hatched in incubater July 15 this year no. 2 hatched under my red sex linked hen that went broody. The first hatch I raised under a light in my brooder then I moved the 7 guineas to a large pen I have had to raise young fowl in. Then the red...
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    do you know why?

    I think most actions performed by fowl is some how benfical so what I was thinking about is why do my chickens dust bath? My hens have been doing a great deal of laying around in the dirt nearly buring themselves in the dust.so what is your thoughts?
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    Blue egg

    I got my first blue egg today, I have 10 Easter egger pullets bought March 17,2010. this is the first egg and it is blue a very nice shade of blue. I am very happy with my feed store pullets.
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    Foul fowl odor

    My friend wanted to know if chickens smell? yes they have nostrils and they can smell as to what they smell I don't know. Oh, I suppose she wanted to know if they had foul or fowl odor or do they stink? She should drive by one of the Tyson chicken houses on a warm day when the owner has lost...
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    golden comet hen and 8 keets

    the keets were hatched 8/26/2010. the hen was purchased from cackle hatchery 5/18/ 2009.
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    Keets hatching under golden comet hen

    I have told you people about my Golden comet hatchery hen going broody and that I had put 12 guinea eggs under her. She has 8 keets under her this morning which is the 26 day of her ordeal. I am so proud of her I just had to tell some one. 2 pearl guinea keets and 6 lavendar keets.
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    keets

    These birds are 31 days old and They are a joy to me. I have 12 eggs under a setting hen due to hatch in a week. I should have guineas to chase the bugs next summer.
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    EE pullet

    I have 10 EE pullets that are 23 weeks old and near to time to lay. I esp. like this pretty girl and I wanted to share her with you. I hope for some blue eggs.
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    EE pullet laying brown eggs

    I have 10 EE pullets that are 21 weeks old this week good news is one is laying bad news is the egg is brown. I hope at least some of them will lay blue/green eggs. Nothing is gained by making plans with chickens. They follow their own path.
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    Rooster?

    I have 10 EE chickens and I am trying to decide if the black and white chicken is a rooster. He or she is 21 weeks old. Usually I can tell the sex before now but this one has me guessing. No crowing yet. what would you think. I posted this chicken before but I am still guessing. when I put his...
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    sex link setting hen

    I have a red sex-link hen purchased from cackle hathery May 2009 she is setting and I have put 12 guinea eggs under her. Have you ever seen a red sex-link set?
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    setting hen

    I have 12 golden comets hatched may 18, 2009 from cackle hatchery and I have thought for a few days and now I am sure one of the hens is going broody. Has anyone every had this happen with a red sex link? I am really surprised.
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    new guinea keets

    Last summer I bought 6 guineas and after having them penned for 2 months I set them free and they went into the wild blue yonder. I since have learned I needed to raise them on my place to keep them so I found a fellow that was hatching them and bought 7. I am just so excited. They said the...
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    EE chickens rooster

    I have some EE chickens that are 15 weeks old. can you tell me if you see a rooster? I think the black and white one is a rooster.
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    growing garden in the chicken pen

    I have two chicken pens one on each side of my chicken house. I was carrying dirt from one to fill containers for a few vegetables. I am 72 years old and this was hard work so one day I had a bright idea. One pen is all I need at this time until fall when I will move my new layers into the hen...
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    New Chicks

    Here are my new chicks, 3 weeks old. They were from cackle hatchery and are welsummers,buff orpington , EE and Partridge Rocks. I never have had these breeds and am looking forward for them to start laying eggs.
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    Chicks pecking

    I ordered 10 Welsummers from Cackle hatchery. They arrived yesterday along with 5 buff orpingtons pullets. Right from the get go the Welsummers starting pecking at the orpingtons so I moved the orpingtons thinking that they looked different and maybe that was what was going on. In a hour time...
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