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    Unknown predator. Guineas locked up again

    We have had a trail cam and a video camera set up in a variety of locations. Thus far all we have seen are crows and us going around the property doing our daily business. This morning I found they have been eating their own eggs. Even the ones the one broody hen was sitting on. I assume it...
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    Unknown predator. Guineas locked up again

    We have lost 13 guineas in the past two months. They free range a 40 acre farm inside a National Forest. They return to the coop each night. This is a daytime predator. We don't know what is getting them. We have found feathers once and one body left in a field. We have locked them up first...
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    integrating youngsters with older flock

    Thanks peeps. It has been a bit frustrating. It was so much easier to start the original flock.... although now that I think of it, dealing with pasty butt, poopie feet, training to the roost, training the dogs to the guineas, the mile march of the guineas back to the roost after their first...
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    Livestock Guardian Dogs

    I have two Great Pyrenees/Anatolian shepherd mixes that were rescued as pups from the local shelter. I didn't know what they were and knew they would be big and hairy. so I found a yahoo group that talks about LSGD (livestock guardian dogs). they are very supportive and a wealth of...
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    DIATOMACEOUS not working on lice

    Is there an option other than sevin dust? I have heard it kills off honey bees
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    Snake!!!

    LOL he did the Snakes Alive show at Bush Gardens one summer. His first business was as Rattlesnake Mike- he would clear snakes out of houses in Florida and then use their skins as cowboy hat bands. That was back during the Urban Cowboy craze
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    Snake!!!

    We had our first snake encounter with our guineas this morning. A big indigo had killed one and was digesting the second of a group of preteens. I had them in a dog crate getting introduced to a group of teens. Dear husband who would have loved to be a herpetologist snatched the bugger up...
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    integrating youngsters with older flock

    The enemy of my enemy is my friend. The teens and pre-teens learned this concept this morning. A snake killed two of the pre-teens who were still in the dog crate. I am glad that I really looked around, because a big indigo was digesting on a ledge watching all of the guineas. My husband...
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    integrating youngsters with older flock

    So now we have put the metal dog crate in the nursery. The pre teens are in there. That seems to have helped tremendously. The teens have done some pecking but I do not think it is aggressive as the preteens do not back off. They stay clos to the teens and peck back. During the day the...
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    integrating youngsters with older flock

    Yesterday I split off the barn brooder so the pre teens could join the teens. I guess disrupting the brooder box upset the teens so much they did not come up to the box to roost as they have done every night since the door was opened. So, now I have teens who will lay down right next to the...
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    integrating youngsters with older flock

    My neighbor had to dispatch two of her roosters who were being aggressive. Lucky for me that has opened up space in her roost for the 19 itty bitties ( 2 week old) guineas. Since the teen got killed in the roost a couple of days ago, the remaining 6 now sit next to the wire between the adults...
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    integrating youngsters with older flock

    Thank you, we were thinking of the dog crate solution last night. At the same time I was thinking what a pain in the butt it will be to keep clean. I am so hoping I can find someone to take this particular group. They are older and 6 weeks more inside would be a long time for them. I am also...
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    integrating youngsters with older flock

    The adults are 10 months old. We have 6 who are 5 weeks old and more who are younger. These 6 have been in a brooder box in a nursery area, separated from the adults. They just started going up and down out of the brooder box onto the roost floor. There is only a small area of screen between...
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