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I have a small young female who showed up yesterday with a very noticeable limp. She is not the object of bullying in her flock but she sometimes roosts in with turkeys. I corralled her and have checked her leg and foot for any irregularities and I see nothing. No breaks, abrasions, sores, no...

I have five 5 1/2 month old Guineas. Four of these birds persecuted one female so I separated her out into a coop of her own. There is a flock of adult birds that resides part time at my place and part time at a neighbors. They come several times a day and collect around her coop. When I release...

I have a group of four adolescent guineas that I want to free range and to get along with a peripatetic flock of 10 guineas that roost at a neighbor’s but spend a lot of time at our place. some of these birds were raised by me, some by the neighbor so their history is complicated. We seem to be...

What do people recommend if their birds hatch out more babies than can be kept? How best to find them good homes, responsible owners? How best can you locate a nest when you know the female is broody and apt to hatch out a bunch of babies in cold wet weather? These babies would be doomed if not...

For another bullying instance, I have a bullying male guinea who I have isolated from his two female, two male friends. He is cross as can be so today when the neighborhood flock came by, I let him out. He was promptly attacked by two lower echelon males. I let him stay out long enough for him...

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This is the rescued guinea I’ve posted about before. She’s doing fine free but she won’t fly over a fence—either to get from one place to another or to escape a pursuing dog. What do I do?

So my guinea, Popeye, that I raised from a hatchling has been set free. She has a boyfriend but he is lousy about teaching her the ways of the guinea fowl. She goes off on her own, sometimes he follows, sometimes not. This morning the flock who roosts next door came over—no Popeye. She had...

Popeye, my rescued female guinea, who I wrote about elsewhere on this site, is now ready to be released. There are two males who will sit by her cage the better part of the day. They just hunker down. They are part of a smaller group sort of separate from the main flock who have stayed around...

I have written about this bird elsewhere on this site. In short she has been in my care since she hatched. She was injured by the turkey who hatched her. Now four and a half months later I am attempting to acquaint her with the neighborhood flock. There is a subset of this flock who hang around...

I want to start introducing what is surely a tame guinea fowl 11 weeks old into the local neighborhood flock. I’ve been putting her in a coop and spreading millet around to attract the flock. They are interested in her and the millet. For reasons unrelated to her, I have to wait until she has...

I rescued a turkey poult on the day it hatched. Either the mother or other members of the flock were killing the hatchlings and this one, wounded and blind in one eye has survived. The mom who belongs to a neighbor who is presently out of the country had built a nest (hidden from sight for...

Just want to relate how the situation with the mean, aggressive chicken (Big Bad Red) turned out. We separated the chicken from the rest of the flock and put her in an area where she had her own private residence but shared the fenced space with our two silkies. We kept her there for about 6...

The problem began with one chicken being beaten up on and injured by another. I removed that chicken until she healed and then determined who was picking on her. It looked like standard pecking order wars so I then removed the offending chicken. What happened when I did this is a whole slew of...

I recently posted about an injured bird who was being attacked by the flock. She has healed. During her recuperation she spent nights in a crate in the main coop and spent days in our garden area with the silkies. When I let her out with the main flock this morning, the oldest hen instantly went...

I have a chicken with a head wound near the comb but the chicken is white so residual blood shows. The wound has scabbed up and the chicken seems well otherwise but she is confined to a dog crate in the coop and does not like it. I tried to remove traces of blood with peroxide but it wasn't...

My husband and I live on 5 acres in NC and have a small flock of chickens which we raise for eggs. We have six "normal" chickens of different varieties (Americaunas, Rhode Island Red, Barred Rock, Wyandottes) who live in a coop within an electric fenced in yard and who are released from their...