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Sorry you lost the other keet, no telling what nasties that rat was carrying. Hope you got the rat problem taken care of and the rest of your babies thrive tho . And ETHAN... you are slipping, you forgot to recommend the sugar in the water !

Plain Neosporin (triple antibiotic ointment), without the pain relief added is fine to coat the bites/wounds with. We also have a product here that's commonly used on horses called Blu-Kote, it's an antiseptic/anti-fungal and stains everything dark purple on contact... and works well on all...

Every brand of poultry electrolytes with vitamins that I've used contain sugar... but yah, if poultry electrolytes with vitamins aren't available, then sugar water is better than nothing. Some keet issues are due to a simple nutrient deficiency of some type, which is why I always recommend the...

Scrambled eggs and crumbled up freeze dried meal worms are great for protein boosts (live meal worms are ok too, but there is a risk that the worms can bore thru the crops, so you'd need to snip the heads off the worms just to be safe for a few weeks). And you should provide them with a little...

Red heat lamps are fine to use for keets. I have used them for years, they are just usually just too warm for small brooders so I use them in my larger brooders to provide heat for 50 or more keets at a time. It's not the color of the light that matters, it's the temperature that the light...

Sorry you lost the eggs/possible keets. Typically moving eggs and a Guinea Hen does not work... Guineas are not like chickens in that aspect, THEY have to be the ones that choose their nesting spot and if messed with they will quickly abandon their eggs out of fear the nesting spot is unsafe...

She may be too stressed to sit on her clutch now that she's lost her mate, so I would locate the nest... (if the predator hasn't already found it) and incubate the eggs if you are wanting keets from the pair. I would not risk letting her sit on her nest tho, more than likely whatever took your...