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(Apologies for the length!) First, my 55s are driving me insane. I bought a flock of year-old chickens May 20th, five GFF 55 Flowery Hen hens and one roo, and 3 barred and 2 pencil Rocks. They were locked in the coop (the coop is more like a combo run/coop, 192 s ft) until May 31st with a...

Tried to Google this, but I'm mostly finding spraddled or problems that develop after hatch. My guinea keets were due to hatch TOMORROW, but when I moved them to lockdown Monday, I had several external pips and most were at least internally pipped. Two were already zipping. SO! I dry...

So! All my birds seem to be a bit precocious! And now I have pen problems, I wasn't expecting to have right now, ugh. I thought my ducks wouldn't be interested in mating until Spring, same for the geese, BUT. The first duck egg I got was fertilized. I thought I was looking at it wrong, but...

I was given these as three day old babies and told they were ringneck pheasants, but they look nothing like my adults. Could they be chukars?

Any suggestions on how to splint this baby? Belongs to a friend, two weeks old.

Anyone know what he is? I know he’s a drake but ... he looks nothing like the KCs, which is what he was supposed to be . The grey one, I know the other is a Magpie.

Our guineas hatched the last week of March, so they are almost 3 months old. I thought I read somewhere that guineas may lay in the fall if you get them early enough, anyone had that experience? Hubby was asking when they would start laying today and I wasn't sure if we could possibly get eggs...

I have my pheasant pen framed out and want to put a roof on tomorrow. The netting is a bit out of my reach right now, so I'm wanting to put a wire roof with a tarp over some or all. Is a chicken wire roof, covered by a sturdy tarp, secure enough? My sides are going to be hardware cloth, but I...

Surprise, surprise, the fertile hatching eggs that turned into a breeding pair was really FOUR pheasants, three female and one male. All three girls laid eggs today, two in my mom's car and one right after she got here with them. Unfortunately, one of the females and the male got head injuries...

Unfortunately, I felt the need to have a kidney stone today, so I wasn't home for all this. My mom bought my son his pheasants since the ER trip made it so I couldn't go get them. The male and one of the females have bleeding head injuries from flushing against the cage. I walked my son...

I think my mom like to feed my animal addiction. Her neighbor is giving her fertile ringneck eggs for me this week . My 21 yr old SN son really wants pheasants so I’m trying to figure out how to make it happen. I think I can save enough money on my duck pens to manage the pheasant pens but doing...

How would you divide a 4x8' pen for James Marie quail? I want some pens for fertile eggs, would love a communal hen pen, and a grow out pen. I'm getting 100 eggs from JM next week, and I need to start getting pens ready haha. What size wire would you use for the bottom? 1/2" hardware cloth...

I had a lone guinea egg hatch last night in the incubator, and no one has keets near me, so I had to get chicks. Not sure how to feed them. My older keets are on a 28% quail starter, and my ducklings and goslings are on Flock Raiser. I picked up a small bag of 24% chick starter with the chicks...

My lone surviving egg peeped 25 hours ago. 12 hours ago it looked like the video. Now it looks the same as seen in the pics. I’ve heard him cheep once and he is breathing. I read in one of the articles about intervention that if they have been stuck zipping for several hours it may need...

Sorry, this is sort of off-topic, but it is for my coops. When I had my 8 yr old metal roof replaced two years ago (long story, was installed improperly before we bought the house), I made the guy save the old roof behind my shed/barn. SO! I have about 4000sq ft minus a singlewide mobile home...

Visited a mill today, and they offer two 28% quail feeds. One isn't medicated and one is medicated with Monensin. It says recommended for the prevention of cocci in growing Bobwhites. I plan to get either James Marie or Texas A&M eggs in the next couple weeks. Which would be the better...

I'm visiting a local mill tomorrow (friend told me about it, she's paying half of what I am at TSC haha), and I'm unsure what I should get for the duckings and goslings. They're on Purina Flock Raiser right now, have about 15lbs left, so it's time to buy more food! Anyway, not sure what I...

Fowl math struck at RK today, and I accidentally bought eight keets. I tried to search what to feed them (thought I remembered game bird), and got various answers. What *should* I be feeding them? I bought a small bag of MannaPro Gamebird Showbird, says "complete crumble for starting and...

I'm looking for the design you've found to give the best hatch rates from a DIY styrofoam cooler 'bator. Have a really nice cooler a frozen food delivery came in and would like to repurpose it into an incubator. Have looked at lots of ways to do it, but would like real life experience on the...

I was gifted 20 guinea eggs Friday, they range from 2-14 days old. What day should I candle to see if they are actually fertile/viable?