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My DH had a stroke 3 weeks ago. While he is improving, slowly gaining the use of his right side, he cannot manage the care of the flock that is needed due to my physical limitations. Over the past weeks we have discussed how we could keep our birds and manage over the winter when I am unable...

Our friends eleven 1-2 year old guineas are gone. They free range during the day, return to their nighttime converted dog-run coop every night. They have feed and water in their coop and come up to their house for guinea crack (millet) every evening. Last Friday none returned to the coop...

Tickles, was hatched on our farm, and has been around loud, running screaming children, many, many family and friends and he does his job watching out for all of our flock, and making sure he is between a child and a rooster. He has prevented both DH and me from being challenged by one of our...

Some "friends" LOL, dropped off 15 Rouen ducklings for us to grow out for them. After finding out that our chicken & turkey processor does not process ducks I have been on the phone trying to find a waterfowl processor without success. We are located between Lima and Bellefontaine and hope to...

We had 1 Narr x RP poult hatch March 28 and 1 Narr x Narr poult hatch April 7 of this year. They are housed with chicks that hatched around the same time, from a few days before to 7 days after the second poult. Today we saw both of them displaying courting behavior. They were standing as tall...

One of our EEs was born with a slight cross-beak last week. Every day it has gotten worse, and today she spent most of her day attempting to eat. Until yesterday she was keeping up with the other chicks, but today was smaller and chirping most of the day. This evening when we were checking on...

Several of our EE pullets began to laying in the past 6 wks. First only one, then 2 wks later another, now we have at least 4 laying, but they never lay in the same place and some places are so hidden that we blocked or covered the areas, causing them to be more secretive or shock us and lay in...

One of our dear little Dominique's died during the night from egg peritonitis. DH told me that he saw her last night in an area of the coop the chickens don't usually spend any time, her feathers were ruffled and she was standing, hunched, with eyes closed. He did not tell me this until this...

Twenty-nine ladies in waiting. Almost 22 weeks old. They've been turning redder and redder, checking out the nesting boxes, squatting, some wanting more attention, others no longer wanting to be touched. They are getting louder, talkative, even practicing their egg song. And finally...

Tonight we moved our 7 EEs to the chicken coop. They are 16 weeks old today, so I know, not babies anymore. They free range with the 19 week old chicks and in the past 2 weeks have been spending a large part of their day in the barn (chicken coop is at one end). Our brooder is in our...

I was out in the laying coop checking for eggs and one of our broodies, Mildred, was sitting backward in the nest, with a 3" prolapse, small of blood & yellow discharge (pasty), and straining. She appeared to be in pain when she moved. She is not fond of contact, but let me check her for an...

We have 5 13-week old, pearl guineas, 3 males and 2 of the loudest, most persistent females in the history of guineas. The guineas were brooded in our attached garage until we couldn't keep them out of the rafters, making the entire garage their drop zone, and had a new batch of chicks...

After purchasing Purina's Flock Block and finding that my chicks are too young for it I combined many of the great recipes on this forum to make my own. Since it is 94 in the shade I used a gelatin based block with oats, cracked corn, BOSS, raisins, ground flax seed, raw peanuts, amaranth...

This is our first time ordering chicks and there are too many that have the traits that we like - also the colors so are beautiful. Can we have too many breeds to start? We are watching temperament and hardiness as well. Finally, hopefully not totally stupid questions. Do we have to have a cock...