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  1. mayoman

    Dogs and chickens

    Hi Mickey67. I have over 300 chickens, ducks, guineas, turkeys, quail, rescue cats and peacocks all living together on a rescue sanctuary farm that is solely protected by me and 4 LARGE BREED DOGS. All these fowl free range during the day and return to roost in trees or barns at night. My...
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    Why are my guineas becoming handicapped?

    I don't know how to close this particular post since I am new to this website. Originally I posted that I had released 20 NEW guineas who seemed to be coming home injured. Then the thread took this crazy feeding thread. While I agree with EVERYTHING that EVERYONE says, it does not apply here...
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    Why are my guineas becoming handicapped?

    Peacocks and quail eat the majority of the wild bird seed. The scratch goes to the chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese. As to the guinea injuries I have about decided it has nothing to do with diet but is occurring when they try to climb through field wire instead of flying over it.
  4. mayoman

    Keeping ducks and chickens together

    Chicks can eat a starter but ducklings should really be given the starter/grower because of the extra nutrients and the speed in which they grow.
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    Why are my guineas becoming handicapped?

    Are your birds in a coop? I'm not clear as to how I am to feed the guineas separate when they eat in a community with 300+ other birds. They have several hundred acres of pasture land, hay fields and oak forests to habitat during the day. They come back to the roost at night because that is...
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    Why are my guineas becoming handicapped?

    Certainly a possibility. I guess everything is possible with guineas. I'm beginning to think that they actually injure themselves by trying to climb through a field fence instead of flying over it.
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    Why are my guineas becoming handicapped?

    They are Free-range so they only eat small portions of this every morning when all the other birds are released from their poultry barn.
  8. mayoman

    Why are my guineas becoming handicapped?

    We are an all natural farm. No sprays, insecticides, etc. They feed in the same pastures as all the other birds. Supplemental feed consists of wild bird feed, starter and layer crumbles and crushed corn. Biggest treat is crushed black sunflower seeds but that is for everone, wildlife...
  9. mayoman

    Love my guineas but fear they are to stupid to survive

    Chickiemom. You are letting your keets free range? How old are they?
  10. mayoman

    Love my guineas but fear they are to stupid to survive

    Please be patient. Next to the border Coliie, the Blue Healer is probably the best herd dog found. He barks because this is how he communicates. And he is SOOOOO loyal to his master.
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    Love my guineas but fear they are to stupid to survive

    We have a hobby farm where we have (today) about 300 fowl (and lots of furry animals, too), but as to the birds, we try to release our guinea fowl much the same as quail or pheasant or peafowl are released. We keep them caged long enough so that they will imprint on the farm and at the same...
  12. mayoman

    Why are my guineas becoming handicapped?

    I have a flock of guineas (20) who are about 4 months old and free range during the day and roost in my oaks at night. They get supplement feed daily. In the last 7 seven days, I have had one/day become unable to walk/fly. Today the first one died. Any ideas?
  13. mayoman

    Dealing with grief and massive loss.

    Thank you for clearing up a lot of the issues. I see where I was trying to give suggestions in a scenario where they would not work. Again, I apologize. But FYI, if raised together from chicks, then turkeys peacocks and guineas get along great and love to roost together.
  14. mayoman

    Dealing with grief and massive loss.

    And put the apron inside and outside the vertical fence. Double protection.
  15. mayoman

    Dealing with grief and massive loss.

    I hear what you are saying but normally this kinda POOR neighbor doesn't stop with just one animal. If they don't care for the animal, they are probably not feeding it either, so the dog only does what it knows to do to eat. How many more are we prepared to kill? I just hate killing a hungry...
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    Dealing with grief and massive loss.

    American Mom, you are right. I did not mean to minimize the protecting of our flocks. I just do not believe in killing anything. But I do free range 100+ animals during the day and they migrate to their barns at night. I dealt with coyotes, racoons, skunks and foxes as predators. Did not...
  17. mayoman

    Dealing with grief and massive loss.

    Please stop. Not even funny when you are trying to interject yourself into serious flock owners and enthusiasts. Go play a hunting video game.
  18. mayoman

    Comment by 'mayoman' in album 'Pictures of My Coop & Run!!'

    Wow, great NEW coop and run!
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  19. mayoman

    Dealing with grief and massive loss.

    It makes me sad to hear these stories. We have lost a few fowl (we have over 100) during free-range. But we have NEVER lost one in the coop. We have the wire perimeter as has been mentioned here but in addition, we dug out the floor of the coop. down about a foot and put in hardware cloth...
  20. mayoman

    Anyone know how peacocks and turkeys do together?

    I have found that all Fowl species are pretty much the same. Peacocks get a bad rap sometimes for being too aggressive. I have found two things work (BTW, my wife and I own and operate a wildlife habitat and sanctuary for rescued animals). First, when we introduce a new male, we always add...
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