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  1. melroseladi

    Need help with peachick hatchling

    Our peahen has been sitting on 6 eggs. We went to check on her yesterday and saw 2 chicks. Both seemed to be doing well. Today I saw a third chick. Mom was off the nest teaching the chicks to eat. The first 2 were doing well but the third was wobbling, wings down. It laid down on the side of the...
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    Welsh Harlequin Ducklings and Guinea Keets

    I have 3 WH ducklings for sale for local pick-up only. One is 6 weeks and the other 2 are 5 weeks. They are a bonded trio. They are outside no longer under a heat lamp. They are feathering out beautifully. I also have a couple of WH hatchlings, still in the hatcher that will be ready to go in a...
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    Congrats PeepsCA

    For being a BYC Educator. You have helped so many of us on here to better understand and better take care of these silly little creatures. I know personally I would have pulled all my hair out by now, or given up on these silly birds if it hadn't been for the guidance and information you have...
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    Something is wrong with Bob

    Bob is a one year old pearl gray. When I went to let them out this morning I noticed he was not acting normal. He was walking slowly, sluggish, no limping. I tried checking him, but he really doesn't cooperate. I don't see any visible signs of injury, blood, or unsettled feathers. He seems to be...
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    Sophia limping, holding foot up

    Sophia was fine all morning while I was outside with them but I just looked out my window and noticed her limping. I went out to check on her and she is holding her leg up while foraging but limping on it when she is trying to walk. I don't see any blood and so far no swelling that I could see...
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    Put my lav and last hatched out with the other keets....BIG MISTAKE

    My little lav has grown some and is just a little smaller then last hatched so I thought it was time to put them out with the others and get them out of my room. Although they have grown I didn't realize just how much smaller they are then the others until they were all side by side. BIG...
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    Update on my babies

    My buff dundette female is huge as is one of my pearls, the male buff dundette is smaller as are the rest of the pearls, they are average size. My lav is not even half the size of the pearls that hatched after the lav did. My last hatched, which came from the largest egg, is also smaller then...
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    My lav keet isn't growing well

    It is eating and drinking well. I have it on vitamins and giving it boiled egg yolks. No pasty butt. I have a box lid in the brooder for their food so I know she is not getting pushed away from a feeder. There are 4 keets in the brooder. The last one to hatch has now passed the lav up in size...
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    Sophia in the chicken coop! Pics

    I went down and fed the chickens and the guineas their treats and locked them in the run, my usual routine when all are cooperating. At dark they are all set in their roost locations so I go down to lock up the coop. I look inside and do a head count and see all 4 of my guineas roosting in the...
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    My last egg in the bator has pipped

    Four of the five eggs that I put in the bator have hatched and the last one has pipped. I put the five in the bator after Sophia stopped setting on them. They have been in lock down since the 30th, well past the 3 day normal lock down, but I thought if they were going to hatch it would be within...
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    Got a new baby - Pics

    When Sophia quit setting on her remaining eggs I tossed them in the incubator. Since I didn't know how far along they actually were, and thinking they would hatch in a day or two, I put 5 eggs in lockdown. Peeps hatched a couple days ago and I was about giving up hope on the other 4 eggs but...
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    Help with sick keet

    When I went to check on the keets that are with the silkies I noticed the youngest/smallest one was sitting not running around with the other 2. She would get up, take a few steps, and then sit back down. I let them all out of their cage into the run to get a better look at her. She did the same...
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    Meet Peeps, my first incubator hatching

    I took Peeps (named after our PeepsCA) out of the incubator and into a brooding bin. She is drinking and pecking a bit at her crumble. She is in the brooder by herself since the other keets are a week older and really active. I am hoping at least one more egg will hatch so Peeps will have a buddy.
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    Thanks Peeps!

    Woke this morning to find a hatched keet in my bator! I put 5 eggs in it that Sophia had stopped setting on after she hatched out 6. I candled them and thought they might have a chance so popped them in the bator. I saw one had "cracked" late yesterday, heard a loud "peep" last night before...
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    Can keets be raised with ducklings?

    My neighbors just got 2 ducklings and are wanting to buy my 3 keets that the silkies hatched out. They have the ducklings in a hutch while they build the coop. I have absolutely no experience with ducks so need advice on ducks and guineas being raised together. Will they need separate coops? My...
  16. melroseladi

    Sophia escaped with my babies

    Oh if guineas could only stay little forever and not grow up into #**#*# adults. I have no clue how but Sophia managed to escape her pen taking the keets with her. I went out to let the chicks and guineas out of the coop and there goes Sophia walking behind the pen with her 6 keets in tow. Into...
  17. melroseladi

    My 2 lav keets PICS ADDED

    don't look that gray to me. Sophia brought them out of the igloo and they look a beigey grayish color. One is darker then the other. I tried getting pics but the color isn't coming out accurate. Oh and when she brought the 5 out this morning I noticed there is a new pearl that is to small to...
  18. melroseladi

    Peeps it's all your fault!!!!

    I went to the flea market to find a xl dog crate and came home with an incubator! OH MY!!!!
  19. melroseladi

    Babies!!!!!

    I went to let the guineas and chickens out and Sophia has hatched out some eggs. She has been sitting on eggs in the dogloo again so I have just been blocking the opening to help keep her safer and low and behold I saw two baby keets poking out from under her. I saw one pearl and one that looks...
  20. melroseladi

    I let my keets out in the run today - Pics

    I locked the adult guineas and the chickens out of the run today and let my keets and their silkie moms out to play in the run. The guineas and chickens lined up along the outside and watched and pecked at the chainlink and all tried to con me into opening the gates to let them back in so they...
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