I need help deciding what kind of electric fence to install. I have my coops pretty well predator proof, except I have one Border Collie that likes to play with my chickens!
She doesn't bother the large chickens, nor the guineas, it's just the smaller half grown chickens and the babies. She...
Help! I set a batch of guinea eggs and only one of them hatched!
Now I have this one little fellow and am trying to get her to eat...slow going for sure!
I wonder what is the best way to feed her and get her to drink...she is doing it but I'm not sure she's getting enough.
I have ground up the...
I have a hen who is setting on 7 guinea eggs that i bought through the mail. I am wondering if I should take the eggs right before they are due to hatch and put them in an incubator and raise them myself in a brooder...or if the hen could raise them herself, free range or in a coop away from...
I am noticing that some people say they transfer the eggs from an incubator to a hatcher when they are almost ready to hatch, and I'm unsure about that.
I have an incubator that automatically turns the eggs, it's a forced air one and the water I add at the bottom front in a little hole.
Now...
I have 12 eggs in my incubator and today is the 23rd day in. I read somewhere that you should stop letting them turn on the 23rd and just let them lie on their sides until they hatch.
Is this true?
I'm a mother and grandmother and off and on I've always had chickens or wanted them! Right now I have 6 large laying hens and numerous bantams. I have 3 red, two white and a Dominick hen. There is one medium sized bantam that considers them all to be his!
I have 4 guinea fowl, two female and...