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Wanting to purchase a dozen Guinea eggs for hatching. Would be willing to pick them up.

Looking to purchase hatching eggs in Missouri and western Illinois. Have little success with eggs that are shipped, so thought I would try to find some to purchase close enough to pick up.

Looking to purchase guinea fowls eggs. I realize that they lay just certain times of the year. When is that?

Okay, my quail are wonderful at laying but what do I do with all these little eggs? I would eat them as I do my chicken and guinea eggs but it seems like it would take a lot of work and a lot of eggs to make a meal. :)

Just adopted three hens from the Humane Society and one that has it's beak tip cut off. Why would someone do this? Her lower beak is a smidge longer than the top so she has a problem eating layer pellets so changed all my chickens to crumbles. Didn't realize until I was watching her try to...

My guineas hatched on April 29th and I thought they would not lay until next year. In the past three days, I have found two little guinea eggs on the grass near the house. I wasn't expecting to have to look for any until next year?

I originally posted this just on the guinea fowl forum but saw the club and thought I would post it here. I have to do something before they slowly kill him/her. --- I have a dozen 9 week old Guineas, one is handicapped but that is not the one the other 10 are picking on. And they are...

I have a dozen 9 week old Guineas, one is handicapped but that is not the one the other 10 are picking on. And they are severely picking on him/her. I'm considering putting a cage inside the flight cage just to let him/her have some relief from them. He/she shoves him/her self in a corner and...

For the past couple days, one of my older roosters is continuously opening and shutting his mouth like he gasping for breath or maybe food is caught. Any suggestions on what is the problem and/or what I should do for him?

Went to TSC this morning and fell in love with the ducklings. I have only had chickens but really think I want to get a couple ducklings to start until I learn how what I am doing. Is getting two enough or should I start with more? What breeds are the friendliest or calmest? Do they fly...

I read that chicks should be brooding for 6 weeks and then others say 8 weeks? What is it?

Was expecting all my eggs to come the same day or one day apart. Instead six came three days later. So the others were in before these latter ones. Now, how do I go about figuring when is lockdown. I was going to split the difference and do it on the19th day of the first ones and hope that...

Set about that many last year and had a pretty good hatch rate. The only thing I have done different this year is I put two little bantam eggs in one of those little kiddie incubators to see if they will hatch. When I was a kid we had three hatch in one of those. My daughter has tried for...

I love ducks but don't have any idea on what is required to house them and keep them safe. Can they free-range with my chickens? Do I need a pond or will a kids wading pool be okay? Will they fly away? Could they be locked up with my chickens at night? When I was a girl, we used to go to the...

I have a friend that has nine hens (roos are not allowed) and she is going on vacation. She is going to leave them with a woman that has a very large flock that free-ranges. The woman has a couple rooster that she has in separate pens that do not free-range and is going to put my friend's nine...

So, I just put an egg turner in my bator but now how do I add water? I can't even see the wells to put it in?

Weeks ago there were directions on how to test to see if the humidstat was registering correctly with uniodized salt in a plastic bag. I am going to be starting up my bators again and want to do this. What is the link on BYC that I saw that?

I have three hens that I NEVER hear a sound from walking around since I left them out squawking as loud as they can. They are not together. I can not figure out what is wrong. Now if it was my SS hen, I just ignore her. She does it all the time until she finds some place to lay or finds her man.

I have a Porcelain D'uccle that looks like she is pooing her intestines out. She seems to be constantly straining and what is hanging out is looks like her insides. All she seems to do is poo out blood. This just started within the past two days.

Okay, the humidity has been great all day along with the temp and now that they are hatching the humdity is spiking. What do I do since I can't open it up to get the humidity down? All the vents are open.