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  1. DPGDirk

    Guineas attacking younger chickens and pest control question

    Guineas are just thugs! They don't seem to want to bully any of my bigger chickens, but like to bully the smaller chickens and younger guineas. It hasn't been as bad lately since my youngsters are getting a lot bigger. I'm certain they will attack any younger birds in the future that we...
  2. DPGDirk

    Guineas attacking younger chickens and pest control question

    Thanks. The guineas do seem to be behaving better now. Maybe this will work out after all...
  3. DPGDirk

    Guineas attacking younger chickens and pest control question

    Good to know. We have 9 more mature guineas and 5 younger one's. The older one's always run the younger one's away from food, etc, but they don't harm them. Hopefully, we can have another guinea meal or 2 at most and we might be OK from there. My buddy is an old hand at skinning and dressing...
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    Guineas attacking younger chickens and pest control question

    We recently got into raising chickens and guineas. We have 15 guineas. (Well, 14 now) I have a couple of guineas that are worse about bullying the others, but we recently started free ranging some young chickens. (Black Australorps and Barred Rocks) 1 or 2 of the guineas immediately attacked...
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    Where to get bulk/quantities of food?

    Great info. Looking into feed, it seems there are multiple formulations for different ages and whether for laying hens, meat birds, etc. I'm using chick starter for the babies and an all flock pellet for everything else. Is that OK? How old before we shift the chicks to standard feed...
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    Where to get bulk/quantities of food?

    We are brand new to chickens. Looking to cut feeding costs. Currently have 7 Barred rock hens, 16 guineas and 26 Black Australorp chicks coming along. The adult birds free range during the day, but will be cooped up more during the coming winter. Any good sources to buy bulk quantities...
  7. DPGDirk

    New chicken owner in SE Kansas

    Hi all. Glad to find this forum! Looks like a great resource. We are finishing up a couple of coops and are getting the rest of our starter birds today. Picked up 7 Barred Rock hens yesterday and probably gonna get the other 8 birds they had today. It's late in the season, but these are...
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