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I have several bantam sized salmon faverolle roosters for sale, they are 4 months old and ready to take care of their new flock. Although they are bantam sized, I have some in with my large fowl sized flock and they do well. These beauties are quiet (relatively), gentle, and respectful of...

I am new to incubating duck eggs, and received a dozen last week from a breeder. I knew that waterfowl eggs were typically dirtier than chicken eggs and that chicken eggs should not be washed before putting them in the incubator. So I assumed it was acceptable to put unwashed dirty duck eggs...

Very strange event occurred today in my back yard. I came home this afternoon at 3pm, and from the driveway glanced into the backyard at the three pens of chickens and one pen of guineas. I saw a Coopers Hawk perched on top of the door to the guinea's pen looking down into the pen. All of the...

I am looking for a white egg laying LF breed for my son to show in 4H next year. He will be 11 and it will only be his second year of showing, we started with bantam salmon faverolles, sexlinks, and cornish rocks. So who has a white egg laying breed that they would recommend for a youngster...

I hatched this guy this past January and need to rehome him to reduce my numbers of roosters in the flock. He came from Lund Poultry in Wisconsin, and his brothers and sisters just won 1st and 3rd at our county fair last month. I can not ship, local pickup only. He is a beauty and I have...

Our county fair is this week, and this evening we were in the poultry barn checking our chickens, when I came across a distraught 10 year old girl and her mother. This is the girl's first year in 4H, and her only project was a pen of market broilers. It has been terribly hot this week, and the...

Had a bad time this week with my pen of 14 broilers. They were 6 1/2 weeks old, 1 week left until processing, and all were killed by dogs that pried the door off the Salatin style tractor. The birds were just slaughtered, it was an awful sight. I was at work when it occurred, but fortunately...

Yesterday was a bad day at our house. I came home and found one of my female guineas ("Mo") dead in the front yard, punctures over her shoulders. The male guinea ("Larry") is missing but there are lots of piles of feathers in the front yard and back yard. I am afraid something really ugly...

After a few weeks of challenges, I've had enough with my rooster. Today we were in the muddy run, and after our confrontation I came away with splashes of mud and poo covering my face and clothing. He doesn't understand that while the girls may be his to protect from predators, their health is...

I have three guineas - 2 females and 1 male, and the girls just started laying last weekend. I was shocked and thrilled when they actually made a nest behind the plywood leaning inside the coop, using the pine needles I had tossed in there. So far there are 6 eggs in the nest. Because the...

I got three guineas last spring and built them a 4 ft by 2.5 ft coop with 5 ft of roosting space. Feeders and waterers are securely hung outside the coop, and the guineas have access to both from the inside of the coop. I originally planned to put the coop up on long "legs", but haven't...

Hello everyone, I have been reading this forum for months now, and am now officially registered. I am so grateful for all of the information I have learned from this website, and most impressed with the "niceness" of those involved. Thank you for providing such quality advise and...