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I don't know for sure if they are Japanese bantams or not. I originally had a male and female white w black tail and their entire hatch produced 5 males. I offered to trade some of them for another couple hens. All I have left are the two hens I was given in trade. They are both brownish. I...

I don't know for sure if they are Japanese bantams or not. I originally had a male and female white w black tail and their entire hatch produced 5 males. I offered to trade some of them for another couple hens. All I have left are the two hens I was given in trade. They are both brownish...

I just got a dozen keets a few days ago, they are 12 weeks old. I have no idea what they were being fed. The man had emergency happen and had to get rid of everything he was raising, right away. I would like to know what is good to feed. Regular chick starter or game bird starter? I can't...

We grew some tomatoes last year and they were awful tasting. We had three different kinds, so it wasn't the kind of tomato. We used our well water to water the plants, when we didn't get rain. Our well water is not drinkable. It has large amounts of iron and sulphur, but it also has methane gas...

I have only three guineas left from my original flock (16 from summer of 2020, until just a couple months ago). I have found some adult guineas for sale. I know guineas stay where they were raised and you have to 'adjust' them to new homes. I always keep 10-12 week old ones in small fenced...

Every website that has info on Japanese Bantams all say it is very rare to have chicks out of them. However I have two Black Tail Japanese, and they had six chicks hatch this spring and we found another five chicks (newly hatched) this morning. My main question is: are they really hard to breed...

Does anyone have a recipe or directions of how to make up scratch (scratchings) without any corn in it? I want to keep giving my chickens some scratchings as treats, but with warm weather arriving, I don't want corn in it. I've always been told corn creates body heat (even with horses and...

Are possums a danger to chickens and other poultry? I know how bad raccoons, fox, weasel, etc are, but have read differing opinions about possums. We saw a big possum in the barn and close to chicken house a couple days ago. Before we have it ''removed'', I want to know if it really is a danger...

We live central Illinois. So we have plenty of predators. Racoon, fox, mink and weasels, dogs let run loose, coyote, etc. I need a good strong safe run/coop. I have a chance to get a pair or trio of call ducks. I do not plan on letting them free range (learned my lesson the very hard way)...

Some one helped us by setting up and building our chicken run and coop and put a couple branches for the bantam chickens to use to get into the chicken house-coop. The chickens do not get up onto the branches and then on up into the coop. We were hoping to put up a ramp. We planed on having...

I have a coop/chicken house that is 4 feet wide, by 2 1/2 - 3 feet deep, and 2 feet tall. It is housing 4 small bantam chickens (two black tail japanese, and two seramas). I live where our winter gets cold. How to heat the coop for some warmth in freezing temperatures? I have a brooder...

I have a chicken coop that is about 4' x 4' x 4'. I will have 5 bantam chickens in it. Two will be seramas. Since we live in cold winter weather, I need to put heat in it (especially for the seramas). What is safe to use as heat? I have the reflector and light for brooder heat for when I...

We have 5-6 acres that our chickens, muscovys, and guineas free range on (plus they also spill over to adjacent acreages). We have a 30 X 40 barn with an attached chicken house of 18 X 9, and the birds roost in both, which ever one they want. Would it be ok to put a pair of peacocks and...

I finally got some flower bulbs planted in my yard last fall. 60 daffodil and 50 tulips. They are all in one area of the yard. Now, the main question...............how do I protect them from my chickens, ducks and guineas from eating them as they come up or eating the flowers if they get to...

Tomorrow I am going to pick up two different groups of young guineas. I do not know the ages of them, but I think they are maybe 3-4 months old. I am getting 5 keets from one person (she said they are "outside" on grass). The other group I am getting are 10 French guinea keets from another...

I imagine I am going to sound dumb as a box of rocks, but what does "top dress" mean? When it says to top dress their feed with medication. I figure it means to sprinkle the medication over their food. But want to make sure I have it exactly correct before giving worming med.

Someone sent this picture to me and I love the idea. Wish I could find a school bus.

Someone sent this picture to me and I love the idea. Wish I could find a school bus.

I just came home with 7 four month old guineas. They look dark black and have white dots. The guineas I got earlier this year that are pearls were a soft gray with white dots.. They have stayed that color. Will these new ones lighten up to a gray? My grays from this spring never got dark nor...

I have a chance of getting some 4 month old guineas, I would like to know how long they would need to be confined to learn this is their home? I have 10 guineas that are about 8 months old, and they have been free for a couple months. They were confined for two months. They were ten weeks old...