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Shipping pol pullets is frightfully expensive. Buy them locally. Where are you? Many people who had to buy winter shipping minimums have 3-4 month olds for sale.

A sponge is a great way to increase humidity.

Guineas won't help with mosquitoes but can help with ticks and grasshoppers. I would recommend housing them separately. They are bullies and love to terrorize chickens.

Yes you should. They still need heat especially at night. Take them away and finish raising them in a brooder.

We all know about the 50% off lumber at HD and Lowes but I just found out about the 90% off "cull" lumber at Lowes this week. I'm just building a cover for my pullet pen and 2 more raised beds so a little wonky is fine. This is what $60 worth of lumber looks like. It's stacked and bundled...

You probably can't get the temp of the brooder up to 95 without a heat lamp to start. Put a thermometer under the brooder plate and see how hot it gets. I use both to start. You need to warm them up as fast as possible when they arrive. I have found that they are drawn to the heat lamp...

Agree that the spacing on a dog crate is too large to keep chicks in for about the first 10 days. Put them in the largest cardboard box or plastic tote to start if that's all you have available. If you are brooding in the house, skip the pine shavings. The dust will kill you. I slit feed...

I got my first chicks of the year Jan 20. (CO) Lucked out on a warm spell (50's) and the chicks got here overnight, 800 miles. I always start chicks Dec-Jan as I sell started pullets and they need to be ready to sell in April. I can count shipping deaths on one hand out of 1000 chicks. I...

What colors of guinea fowl are you raising? Just getting back into guinea after this summer's grasshopper invasion. Currently have pinto. Want another color.

I just drop a human grade vitamin B tablet in their water. Not perfect but never had issues with my gosling.

As part of a team, a cattle dog is usually very tuned into this environment but I would be concerned about him going uo against a pack just because of the size disadvantage.

Stick it with a needles. Pull back on the plunger and see if you can aspirate any thing. Is it hard, squishy or hot?

0 recall, selective hearing, not coming when called, they do eventually return home when they are good and hungry just not now. I have keeped an adult Akbash (wired just like a GP) and a GP in a 4' fenced area. They were both heavy 120#+ not athletic dogs. They tended to go through instead...

Is your property dog fenced? GPs will roam and have pretty much 0 recall. I love GPx. Still have the guarding instincts but is more interested in hanging with the family. I also like a dog who wants to patrol and bark at night. Sleeps during the day.

Just save some seeds and start your own next year.

I get $25 each in Denver. You should have a decent market. Check CL.

Put the egg on a wet paper towel in the brooder.

Your market will determine what you can sell them for.

Shredded paper or cardboard, straw, hemp, sand, leaves, dried grass, chopped hay....

Instead of going out and buying, start with your freezer. Clean out open bags of fruits and vegetables. I give them mystery freezer burnt meats, rolls... just about everything I can no longer identify. Can't justify throwing it away. You can fill plastic containers with kitchen scraps, cover...