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    Male guinea chasing

    A few months ago a family friend gave us 4 of their birds that they couldn’t care for, 3 pullets and a young guinea fowl, after some research I found out about guinea mating practices and figured out that we had a male. I realized of course that since he had been raised with chickens he would...
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    • chasing guinea guinea aggression guinea chicken male guinea
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    • Forum: Guinea Fowl
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    Peahens

    Some random wild peahens wandered into my yard and are trying to hang out with my chickens, currently I’m keeping them separate, what can I feed the peahens that they will like?
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    • feeding feeding peacocks feeding peahen peacock hens peahen peahens
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    • Forum: Peafowl
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    Hen losing feathers on neck

    When most people hear this they are gonna think rooster, but he’s not doing this I have a hen who is about 9 months old and is losing feathers on her neck, but only on the front and bottom parts of her neck, ( a bit on the middle too ) it only started maybe last week, the pattern doesn’t match...
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    Possible broken wing in cockerel

    I have a 1/2 Sumatra 1/4 cubalaya 1/4 Easter egger rooster that is a little under 3 months old, that other day he was flapping around and hit his wind on some cinder blocks. I noticed his left wing seemed to have a couple of odd feathers sticking odd that were attached to what looked to be his...
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    Not an emergency just wondering about dewormer

    I currently have chickens and hoping to get peafowl eventually ( as soon as possible ) I know that chickens can transfer black head and other diseases to peafowl through parasites, I heard that if you mix diatomaceous earth into your chickens feed it will kill the worms in the chickens system so...
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    Looking for Egyptian Fayoumi

    I purchased an order of Egyptian Fayoumi in the mail but they arrived dead, I originally only wanted two hens but I would be happy to change that order if someone is selling them, the other option is waiting until July which I really don’t want to do. Anyone who is selling Egyptian Fayoumi...
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    Mother hen and new young rooster

    Currently we have a momma hen raising 4 adopted chicks, while the hen was sitting on the nest we added a new rooster to the flock, the rooster has been mostly good towards our hens only having a problem with one of our hens at the start ( which we chock up to ptsd from our last horrible rooster...
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    Looking for self sufficient chickens.

    Last spring I ordered 2 Egyptian fayoumi, a golden Campine, and a Sumatra chick. I ordered the Egyptian fayoumis and Golden Campine because I read that they were fairly self sufficient chickens that could forage for most or all of their own food if given the space and would be the last to be...
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    Rooster with respiratory problems

    After I post this thread I am going to search BYC for anything similar to this, but I wanted to post this for anyone who might be able to immediately identify the problem. I had noticed a few times that my cockeral had a hard time breathing in the past after a lot of running, but I chalked it up...
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    Bloody fayoumi

    I have a 5 month old fayoumi who seems to have blood coming from her neck, I’m not sure how, and if anyone know what could have caused this then your help would be appreciated, also I need to if I should/what I should do for her. I have a 5 month old Plymouth cockerel with the flock, but I’ve...
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    Chicken with restricted throat/airway

    My 4.5 month old austrolorp semis to have something stuck in her throat, she has a kind of honking breathing she has constantly been doing and she occasionally make a sneeze or cough sound, I tried turning her head down, and patting hard on her back, I also tried to squeeze her when she has...
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    Young Plymouth rooster not gaining weight.

    I ordered some chicks over the summer and they are a little over 4 months old now, one of them is a partridge Plymouth rooster, he seems to not be gaining weight. I weighed him about a month ago at 5.4 pounds, then two weeks later he was 5 pounds, now he is 5.6 pounds, so a very small increase...
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    Aviary covering

    I’m going to be building a run/ aviary for chickens and maybe some peafowl, I need the net over it to stop raccoons and hawks, currently I’m thinking about using this netting https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B012L9ZIFE but if someone else has a better stronger netting or has had bad experiences...
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    Peafowl questions

    I am loosely entertaining the idea of getting a peacock come spring, but I know very little about keeping them. So I have a few questions and if anyone could help me out that would be great. • Can peachicks be raised by a chicken ( I was specifically thinking an Orpington ) • If they free range...
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    • #peachick #peacock #peafowl #question #raisingchicks
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    • Forum: Peafowl
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    Young pullets abandoned by mom

    i had a hen go broody and was looking to expand my flock, so I ordered 2 fayoumi chicks, 1 black Sumatra, 1 buff orphington, all female, and a partridge rock male, I put them under her, and it well, but the chicks are only 4.5 weeks old, and the mom is already chasing them off, is that normal?
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    lethargic plymouth rock

    My barred plymouth rock hen, that is a little over 2 years old, just recently starting sitting around and not foraging, her tail is not pointed up like her sisters and she is holding it down, and the front of her comb is drooping to the side a little. Also she is breathing very hard and...
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    Rooster reccomendations

    I am currently deciding what rooster to get for my flock, I would like one that is large, or at least not small, and is aggressive to other roosters but not to humans. Currently the best two options are a Jersey giant rooster or an American Gamefowl rooster ( the Gamefowl rooster is too small...
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    Sumatra flying

    For anyone reading this I do not own Sumatra’s, however I am thinking about buying them and I was wondering wether the non bantam Sumatra’s could fly well, and if so where to get ones that can?
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