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    Momma Guinea ran off nest, I need some advice please..

    So we had a female guinea go broody on a clutch of about 30 eggs down in the woods. We normally will not let them do that, but we couldn't find her, then she showed up after 2 days, I locked her up and then followed her the next day and found where she was nesting. It wasn't far from their...
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    Question on worming

    I free range my chickens and the other day one of them pooped in front of me and I thought, is that moving, on closer examination I noticed a couple of little bitty, I mean tiny worms moving around. Then I noticed another one pooped some reddish brown diarreah and there was one of these little...
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    Hen or rooster and what kind do ya think?

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    Has anyone else ever gotten a rooster when buying pullets?

    I bought 4 pullets and 2 straight run bantams the last week of march. I know the silver sebright is a rooster because he was trying to crow this morning. The other bantam is a black frizzle and I thought might be a rooster but the waddles are just barely pink, comb isn't red like the sebright...
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    a question about baby sebright chicks

    Are they always so tiny? I bought 4 pullets and 2 bantams and they are coming up on 2-3 weeks, one is for sure a sebright, but she is so much smaller than the other chicks I bought. She has more feathers than the rest, but it seems like she isn't really growing, either that or the others are...
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    Egg is 5 days out from hatching and is dented/cracked

    One of our eggs that is 5 days out from hatching has a dent/crack in it. I don't know if she stepped on it or if one of the other eggs bumped it or what. There is nothing leaking out of it, just a pretty good size dent. Does anyone know if this egg and baby chick are still good? Will it...
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    Will clotrimazole hurt my hen if it's dry skin or some other issue instead of favus?

    I have a hen that her earlobes were peeling pretty bad and she was peeling around her face and neck area. I have read several threads on here about favus and I couldn't really find an answer. Some of the stuff I've read says that with favus their skin will peel around the head and neck area...
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    I have a question about Favus

    A few weeks ago I had a hen that got attacked by a coyote. She is still healing from the attack. I have been keeping her inside in a large pet taxi and taking her out during the day and letting her exercise outside for a little while, I also block off a little section in the house and put down...
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    Help coyote injured one of my hens

    A coyote got ahold of one of my hens, he spit her out as I ran after him. The skin is ripped on her back end and the muscle is showing in a couple of places and she isn't putting any weight on one leg. I put her in a pet taxi and she drank a little water. What do I need to do with the torn...
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    question about Gape worms and panacur

    Okay I have a guinea that has started having trouble breathing, she weezes and breaths kinda like gasping with her beak open. I looked up everything I could about it and really all I could come up with was Gape worms. I swabbed the inside of her throat and nothing was on the swab. I had some...
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    Need Advice!! Egg trying to hatch and I dont have an incubator!

    Okay, I've got a mess! My turkey took over a guinea nest. None of my guineas were broody, so I thought I'd let her try, BIG MISTAKE!!!!! I've found 4 that she has crushed. I guess they pip and once that egg shell is cracked, she just crushes them ;-(. anyway, I was able to save one...
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    the low is suppose to be 68 tonight, will my keets be okay?

    My Momma guinea isnt' on her keets tonight. they will be 2 weeks old Sat., it is suppose to be 68 tonight, they are in the back room of the barn in buried down in hay. do you guys think they will be okay? Any advice is appreciated!
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    Thank you PeepsCA!

    Hey, just wanted to say "thank you" for the advice on Lucky. I had to pull all 3 keets and put them in the pet taxi with Lucky. I left them in there for a couple of hours and took them back outside and Momma took to all of them. ;-) I'm sooo glad. We tried putting him in last night, she did...
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    update on Lucky...

    I have 2 guinea eggs that have pipped under a momma chicken hen, if all goes as planned little Lucky will get put under her tonight. Everyone keep your fingers crossed that she accepts him. On a sad note, If she does I'm sure gonna miss the little guy. But how could you not miss this little...
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    question about a orphaned baby..

    Okay, I had 3 momma guineas hatch 5 babies. After they left the nest, i went out to gather up what was left and I found a baby buried in hay and dirt, he was completely out of the crushed egg shell, but his cord was still attatched. Little guy was just all curled up in a fetal position and...
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    how do you tell if a guinea egg is fertile?

    I ask this because i have 4 nests now. One guinea has been on hers at night since april 5th, she is not on it during the day though. One of the other nests, the guinea is on it at night and most of the day,but this just started a couple of days ago. I cracked open about 6 eggs and every one of...
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    question about guinea eggs

    Okay, I have 66 guinea eggs in the barn. The guinea has was on them 2 nights straight then last night she wasn't on them, but this morning she was on it. It seems that she comes and goes. My question is, My nephew wants some of the eggs to incubate. How long will the eggs be good for him to...
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    update on momma scared off nest....

    Okay, as you guys remember my momma guinea got scared off her nest by a skunk, while she was off I took the opportunity to candle the eggs and only 2 eggs out of 21 were fertile. They were due to hatch yesterday. I checked all day yesterday and she wouldn't budge. She wouldn't get up at all...
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    UGH! Day 25, Momma scared off nest...

    Okay so we are on day 25 and my momma guinea got scared off her nest by a skunk. I have no idea how long she was off, a few of the eggs were still warm but the 2 that were fertile were not. Do any of you guys that have experience with this sort of thing think the eggs or babies are still okay...
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    I have a guinea hen on a nest... so i have a couple of questions????

    I have a lavendar guinea on a nest. Luckily she is in their barn stall, fenced in where we put them up at night. They free range during the day. I was just wondering should I try and shut the door to back room so the other guineas can't get in there with her? Will they disturb her if I...
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