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    Help ID 2 birds

    I bought several straight run bantams at a feed store. They are 10 weeks old. I've been able to identify most but have 2 I'm unsure about. The feed store's posters are not much help as these chickens are not pictured on them... The white bird I wonder if it's a white Japanese bantam? And the...
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    Rooster question

    I have 12 assorted banties, 3 of which are roosters. One of them is definitely dominant and will chase the other roosters off a hen when she squawks at being mated. But all 3 roosters are friendly to people, including my 6 & 11 year old boys who check eggs daily. I suspect once breeding season...
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    2 banties need id'd, please

    Good morning! I picked up some banty chicks at a local feed store. They are now 10 weeks old. I think the clean legged one (black and white lacing, labelled lace in photos) may be a sebright, but I'd like your thoughts on it and my other one. The other one (labelled mutt in photos) has feather...
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    Hatching keet trouble

    My guinea hen has been setting on eggs and they started hatching (not that she lets me near, but...) We had dry weather in the 90's in week 3 but got 5" of rain and 70-80 degrees in the last week of incubation. Don't know if that matters, though. But - so far I've found 4 eggs kicked out of the...
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    Time between hatches under hen

    How long do I need to give a mama hen to recuperate between hatches? She hatched a guinea egg I'd put under her and is now raising the keet, but once it's old enough to be outside on its own, how long should I give mama hen to recuperate before letting her set on more eggs?
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    How long to give an egg after the other hatches?

    I put two guinea eggs, fertility unknown, under a bantam hen who wanted to set on eggs. 28 days would've been next Tuesday but one hatched on Friday (so 4 days early?). How long do I let the hen set on the as-yet-unhatched egg before removing it? Thanks!
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    How long hen fertile for?

    Odd question - I have 5 young mixed bantams (farm store purchase), one obviously a rooster and 4 probably hens. I separated the rooster from the others in early September, before the hens started laying, as the rooster was pestering the hens endlessly. About a week ago two of the hens started...
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    Can raccoons...?

    Does anyone know - can a raccoon cling to the underside of a wire shelf for long enough to climb over it? What I'm trying to describe is a 2x4 welded wire "shelf" installed horizontally about 5' off the ground (not sure what I'll support it with yet - L brackets of some sort), at 90 degrees to...
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    Guinea setting on eggs - advice wanted

    I have a guinea hen setting on about a dozen eggs, now on week 3. I am not able to swipe the keets as they hatch to raise so plan to let momma do it (if any hatch...) What do I do about a waterer? I have read that for little keets you need marbles or something in the waterer to keep them from...
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