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You rang? ;) Good morning, my dear! Sorry I have been MIA for so long. All is well here. I was just thinking this week I should check in on my Indiana BYC friends and see how everyone weathered the snow. I'm so glad for a melt! All my chickens and guineas are well. No complaints here! Re...

Sorry to hear this. Hopefully anyone reading this will be sure to check their coops after dark.

Hi, all. Hope everyone is having a good summer. We have been up to our ears with life, as usual. Today at the KY State Fair, hubby informed me we "need" buff laced polish hens. How funny is that? I'd asked him in the past when ordering, and he had no interest, but he was quite taken with...

Well, the first four keets sold are off and into the hands of their new owner. I guess this is a milestone for me. I am officially a guinea keet dealer. I should add that to my resume. Thelma update (since y'all have come this far): yesterday she was off the nest for several long periods. I...

That is adorable. The past two days have only yielded one keet each. Both days I have also had to fish out a keet that died while hatching. Very sad to see them moving, only to later find them dead. I know it isn't low humidity because it has been raining all the time for weeks. Everything...

Oh, no. I'm so sorry you are going through that!

Ha ha. Yes, obviously the keets are in a brooder. I was asking re: any eggs she might abandon that are not duds, so I can be prepared.

We are up to 16 keets. She's sitting on 11 eggs still (she finally got up for water so I got a good count). Egg #12 in her clutch is a failed hatch from yesterday. Looks like she pecked it. :( I didn't try to fish it out just on the off chance it is still hatching. Looks kind of bloody, though...

Sorry for your loss, and for your husband's. That is tough. This rain is so tough. I added some barn lime to my run. Hoping for wood chips, too. I have some pine flakes but would love something more substantial. Gorgeous! I'm not the one you asked the q. of, but when I spoke to the tree guy...

PS The barn lime helped immensely.

Well, that's my hope when they're here for the REMC. If I can't get them to dump the chips they're making right here in my woods, then I give up!

If I can figure out how to candle them, I will. I don't have an incubator, though, so I might have to give them to a friend. Would they be salvageable? This morning we are up to 14 keets, plus three in the process of hatching still beneath her. Don't know how many that would leave. Ten? So hard...

Thanks! They are royal purple. Dad has a few white feathers on the edge of his wings, but doesn't really look pied at all. The keets look just like mom and dad did when we brought them home, so maybe this is just their coloration...? There seems to be more evidence of this online this year...

We are up to 13 today. Tomorrow will be day four, and unless something goes horribly wrong, I will be looking for two keets under her in the morning that were pipped and zipped tonight. That would leave several more eggs and I have no idea what their status is. I had no idea it could take this...

Thanks, Leahs I have actually asked more than one tree service and haven't had any luck yet. Spent a good deal of time this week talking with the tree service contracted by the REMC to trim trees on our property. He swore up and down he would dump me a load of wood chips at the bottom of my...

Y'all, Thelma has hatched keets, and they are adorable! So far we are up to five. She's still on the nest so I assume there are more coming. The oldest is 3 days old, then there were four that hatched yesterday. I don't know if it is normal for it to take so long to hatch everyone, but she is...

With all this rain...my run smells like a pig pen. Last night I used a ton of barn lime on it. I bought it months ago and had it on hand. Probably going to take another pass at it today. I really wish it would stop raining so hubs could mow the yard. I would love to put the grass clippings in...

Came home to four more keets! Also found a dead one. Poor thing, looks like she pecked it. It had blood on its beak. Healthy ones + 2 day old one: https://instagram.com/p/5Aug42k8zF/?taken-by=treehousetime

So far little peeper is the only hatch. He/she will be 2 day old today. I saw an egg that had pipped this morning. Thelma has since tucked it back beneath her. I guess she will give up when she gives up...or there might be more hatching today?

Well, this morning Miss Thelma is still on the nest. I heard something peeping beneath her, so I risked a look. I guess it was a keet inside the egg? Hoping I didn't screw anything up, but I was desperate. Baby keet under the brooder is doing well this morning. Trying to eat when I give it...