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I have a 3 year old gander that yesterday I noticed is now missing most of his tongue. Its been really hot lately so they have all been panting during the heat of the day and I was looking at everybody and thought he looked funny. So I got a hold of him and looked (also had a second person look...

Well, at least with my guys have noticed that the colors sort of tend to stick together. I frequently see the two white ones together, the blue ones together, the violets together and the boring colored ones mixed in. They do all intermingle but their preference seems to be by color. I started...

Last year I took one of our geese to the vet (who is a bird specialty vet and also works at our zoo) and I had asked, among other things, what would be a good way of providing forage for them over the winter when there was no grass available. I wanted something that would be able to be out 24/7...

I don't have chickens yet, just guineas and geese, but I am looking into getting chickens and have a question. I live on a relatively busy street that has people that drive WAY to fast and do other dumb things as they go by. The barn, where the birds are kept is a good 300 ft from the road. The...

Looking for suggestions as to what the best food is for guineas that they will actually eat without wasting too much of it. So what does every one feed and how does it work for you and your guineas? I raised our keets on chick started and then transfered them to a pelleted turkey feed which they...

Quote: Definitely! Catching guineas is all about strategy and stealth. Chasing won't work at all and will just make it all the more difficult.

If you could get him caught (way easier said then done!) I would be willing to add him to my flock as I don't think that he would survive the winter without some sort of shelter. I live near Cleveland, but I would be willing to drive down and/or meet you half way. If he survived this long he...

My geese really do love the water. I agree that it seems to be a social activity with them because when one goes to the pool they all go and have to talk about it with each other. I would say that geese and ducks love water equally just that geese are different in their manner of using and...

I am in northeast Ohio, pretty close to Cleveland. I really don't want to sell them or give them to anyone else as I have had some very bad experiences in that area in the past and just don't really trust it as an option. Ideally, I would just find some more that are guaranteed females to...

We have guinea fowl that we got for pest patrol, because all the other methods that we tried did nothing to get rid of the crazy amount of ticks at our place. I went with the guineas because we do use eggs, so that wouldn't be a big problem and we have not let the raise any keets of their own...

Sorry no one has answered you yet, but first welcome to BYC! I don't know if I have a really good answer for you as I am having the same issue with my flock. I have one hen that has a permanent injury and can't keep up with the rest and the rest have recently started bullying her. I think it may...

I agree that she probably wants more eggs. Mine won't sit on their nest until there are at least ten.

The turkeys were the best conclusion we could come up with, give that I had checked everyone for worms within the last month, except the guineas (stupid me), and everyone had a very low worm load. The guineas are the only ones that go out where the turkeys are, so that was why we figured it must...

Yeah, we have a flock of them that lives around our house. They come up to eat out of the neighbor's bird feeder and then they travel along with the guineas for a while and then disappear off into the woods at the back of the property. This is a common sight out off our back porch.

Quote: This is a much more extreme version of what I am seeing with mine. I would like to get some pictures of it, but in the evening the light is never very good :( I did pull up some of the barn floor gravel for them to have until I can get to the store and get different grit. They love the...

When the first one died, I had assumed that it was egg bound, but after the second one in 48 hours died I was worried So we got the report back from the vet. They had a E. coli based respiratory infection and a slightly elevated worm load. According to the vet, neither of these things by...

Quote: They don't seem to have any respiratory problems, but I am thinking that they may have gotten into something at the unpleasant neighbors house. Quote: I don't think it was from a snake as we don't really have many snakes around, but it is a possibility.

I do have grit out for them 24/7, but I have been working on switching their grit, since none of them seem to like what I have out for them. I do think she is eating too much because by the morning it has gone back down to normal. They do have food and water available even at night, but I bet...

I have a goose that was not well taken care of for about a year of the first year and a half of her life. I got her about 6 weeks ago. The past few weeks I have noticed that her crop bulges, so her chest looks really puffed out and lop-sided towards the right. This also extends up her neck about...

I had a flock of about 18 guineas that were about a year or so old. Everyone was healthy as far as I could tell, in good weight, had nice feathers, eating, drinking, walking, being generally bad . Last week I came home to find one dead in the coop with nothing externally to indicate why it was...