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Hello all you guinea experts out there I had my guineas in a locked covered pen connected to the chicken coup and since they are now 4 months old I decided to open the gate and let them hang out with the chickens and I am happy to say that they are staying with the chickens and are roosting...

Yesterday I wrote about having moved my 5 3 month olds out to the big coop with all the chickens. Last night being their 1st night out there I had to shine a flashlight on the roost and softly spoke coaching them to go up. I was told that I would possibly have to repeat that process til they got...

I just finished moving my guineas to the big chicken coop today. I have a chicken wire fence dividing the 2 sections so they can see each other. Those guineas are now huddled in the corner freaked out at all the chickens. The guineas are in a completely covered area with a ladder roost inside...

Hi all, I have 5 guineas that will be 3 months old on the 8th and I am wondering about these things. 1st let me say that I have had them in a big wooden cage(solid walls, roof & wire door with built in roosts) They are begining to make the normal guinea sounds when startled. They have been kept...

Hello everyone! I haven't been online on backyard much as hubby and I have been rebuilding and enlarging coups, runs ect... I have also been dealing with new chicks and family matters. This past January I received the surprise pullet special from Ideal and I love those birds! In that shipment I...

a black cochin rooster for me? I have a cochin that I hatched back in April that I thought was a hen, so it never got named. Now this past month the neck feathers are showing how pointy they are, and he has long pointy sickle feathers. He has never crowed yet but I know he is a he I am going...

Hello all, I have finally gotten me 6 keets They were hatched on or about Oct.8th, they are in my house under a heat lamp and are thriving well! I plan to transfer them outside about mid November thinking that once they are at least 6 weeks old they should be totally feathered and old...

Hello everyone, On Jan.30th of this year I had ordered the surprise pullet special from Ideal and I have been happy with my order thus far! Now in that assortment of pullets 4 were the light brown leghorn pullets! Now all of my girls have/were laying real well, now I believe some are starting to...

I ordered my last shipment of chicks for the year from Ideal Hatchery! I ordered a small order and I must say it's very limited right now as to whats available til 2010. Seems everyone is buying chicks these days. Since I LOVE chickens I wasn't real picky Here is what I ordered....... 3...

I have 2 silkies that I hatched out April 4th and I have never heard them crow so I am guessing they are girls, and I also have never seen them fly up to the roost with the other birds. Can silkies even fly?

Chickens have the ability to smell things Sometimes I swear they smell my cornbread baking as they are always gathered for it. Anyone ever think about things like this?

I must be a real chicken addict as I have just placed my 2nd chick order this year I was surprised at being able to do so considering alot of the breeds were sold out until 2010! There wasn't a huge selection of birds but I went with a small order of 10! I was also surprised that Ideal let me...

ILOVEFRIZZLES!!!! I ordered 12 EE eggs from her. She shipped them Monday with a confirmation # and they came today! I must say that I have never gotten eggs that were so packed with care! NONE of the eggs were even cracked! I am planning to set them under my game hen Patty in the morning! Again...

I just got a dozen EE eggs from ILOVEFRIZZLES here on BYC Now I have a wonderful game hen who hatched a bunch of babies back on Apr.4th! A few days ago she started pecking me to keep me from getting 1 egg she had just laid, needless to say I got the egg and felt bad because I think she wants to...

All the *treats* we love to spoil our chickens with I thought it would be cool to have everyone list what they feed their chickens other than the normal layers feed and scratch! I do spoil mine with a pan of fresh baked homemade cornbread every other day. I feed scraps from the kitchen, and...

Today my girls broke their own records!!! I got 15 eggs!!!!!!

Have each set a nest this year and hatched babies. Now I am wondering if this time of summer if I were to purchase some eggs and placed them in 1 of their nesting boxes would I be able to make 1 of them want to go broody? Has anyone ever tried to induce broodiness this way?

I have some sick birds and have begun the Sulmet treatment for them....now it was suggested that I start them on a probiotics program, can someone please explain what that would entail? Forgive my question but I am not sure what I should be doing!

Hello everyone, I had posted about some illness problem in my chickens asking for help identifying what the problem could be. It was suggested that I get Sulmet as it covers a range of different illness's. I have just returned from the feed store with the Sulmet, I plan to use the Sulmet for 6...

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