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These 5 I just got are my first Guinea keets. They were 4 weeks old when I got them and fully feathered except for their heads. They are getting a 22% starter (non-medicated) which is all i could find. The bag and brochure says for all poultry, but who knows? Anyway, when are they old enough...

I had gotten my first 4 Guineas several years ago. I loved those foolish things but I lost them all to an owl. Ok, I lost 3 of them to an owl and the 4th escaped to the wild, hatched a clutch of chicks that got eaten by fox. Anyway, I am getting either 4 or 6 4 week old chicks tomorrow! I have...

I have the basic incubator you get at TSC, I'm guessing it's still air? I ran one batch of eggs thru it, none hatched but that could be the roos fault-he's a bantam/polish cross and the girls are all full sized breeds. But then it could also be related to the girls as the youngest are 2, the...

I have a broody hen who is driving me crazy. She has been trying to set on her eggs and those of the rest of the flock for quite a while now. Every morning I remove her from her nest, take the eggs and boot her out of the coop. I don't need more chickens. Today i went to buy a pair of...

My son just called me all excited. He was home alone (I am at work) when the chickens started making a racket and fluttering around, followed by my Great Pyrenees Sophie and Nessa going crazy in the house. He let them out and the girls took off after something that had gotten into the yard, near...

I have a hen. She is 2 years old, not sure of the breed. She has spurs. Or should I say it is either a spurred hen or a rooster who lays eggs. Is she a freak or does this happen occasionally? I always wondered about her. She has the normal feathering of the females. She never crows. She never...

I had a hen setting on eggs, she started setting on them Tuesday. On Thursday I saw her out drinking and eating, but went back into the nest. I found her dead in the pen on Saturday. I got the eggs and put them in an incubator. What do you think the odds are of them hatching?

I saw them posted in a want ad locally, but I have never heard of them. What are they?

My Frizzle Cochin bantam went missing. I found her under their coop, setting on eggs. I left her there because I had no way of getting her out! So, this morning I walked into the bantam pen and found a dead hatchling, still damp, in the middle of the ground about 2 feet from the coop. Poor baby...

I have a predator problem, one that I can't legally trap or shoot. It's an adolescent bi-ped who sneaks into my yard through the woods when I am away of an evening at work. He comes that way so the neighbors can't see him. He has chased, scared and killed animals. he torched my barn, killing all...

I think I remembered someone posting on here that they made a fly trap/net of sorts that they loaded with meat (maybe?) and hung in the chicken area. When the maggots started hatching and crawling, they fell out and the chickens ate them? I can't find the post, but I am interested in trying it...

I got a variety of chicks last year, not sure what they all were. I'm still not sure on all of them! I have at least 1 that is laying off white eggs. They are way to light to be considered light brown, but they are so not white! What type of chicken lays off white eggs? These are supposed to be...

We have had some serious snow this year, and last nights snow and rain added to the mess. The snow is hip deep in most places in my yard. The chicken area's are way below "snow level" as I had no place to throw the snow after i totally dug them out, so I just dug out the gates and a pathway from...

Due to an injury, i didn't get my chicken coop and yards made the way i wanted too. By the time I was able, the snow had come. So, I have 1 chicken coop with 13 young'uns in it but no outside pen. They recently started laying. Yup, dead of winter, no lights, below freezing temps (lately, below...

My pullets hatched on June 14th, so they are getting close to laying age. Since the days are getting shorter, should I put a light in their coop to extend the day so they will lay? (sort of poetic, dontcha think?) And nest boxes, should I wait until they start to lay or put it in before they...

About 3 weeks ago I mentioend having a Polish hen setting on eggs. She was then joined by a Frizzle Cochin hen and another Polish hen on the milk crate nest, 3 hens crammed into a milk crate. It was pretty funny seeing them setting in that little crate. So, this morning I am racing around doing...

do hens need to lay? The days are getting shorter and I was wondering when they were going to slow down. Also, I have 14- 12 week old pullets. Will they start laying this fall or wait until spring if i don't run lights for them? They are an assorted flock, though I think most of the pullets are...

Has anyone ever had a Polish Hen raise her own chicks? I have a pen with 2 bantam Polish hens and 2 Frizzle Cochin Bantams, a hen and a roo. They all share a nest (their idea) so all the eggs are in 1 nest. Yesterday I noticed the Polish is sitting on the nest. When I got home from work last...

I am over run with snails and slugs. I cannot let my chickens free range because of free roaming dogs, foxes and hawks, so they are in big dog kennels topped with tarps. I bring them some sort of plant based treats every day. The ones I brought them yesterday had snails n them, which I didn't...

My 5 week old chicks have been in a bath tub and heat lamp brooder, in the goat barn/dog kennel since I got them in the mail (at 70 hours old). Its been very hot, so I made a place for them outside in a large cage I hung in the layers pen, so they are sheltered from the direct sun, rain and...