NY chicken lover!!!!

[Pyxis]

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The mother Earth I'm reading has a nice article on Guineas. You'll want to do your research as they are not as easy to keep as chickens and ducks. I've considered them too. My neighbor has some I think. His first year they got loose and he lost one. 

I've got guineas and they're not hard to take care of, you just have to get them coop trained or they'll sleep in the trees. Mine were raised by a hen and really like the chickens because of that, so it was easy. I imprinted them on the new hoop coop as it was going up and when I first let them out they just followed the chickens back into the old coop, lol. So that helps. I have 12 guinea eggs incubating right now and I'm giving them to my broody BO hen to hatch and raise so that this batch is also raised by chickens. I care for them the exact same way I care for my chickens, no difference

 

[Pharkas]

I have been treating a chick for the past couple of weeks with "wry neck.". The chick was doing great and I thought I was out of the woods (5 weeks old and no symptoms). This afternoon when I went out to the grow out brooder the chick was on its back with it head pinned to its back and the other chicks were just walking on it.

 

[Sweetpea3829]

Funny snake story...

My son has a corn snake. One morning this past winter, the kids came down for breakfast and shrieked, "RAZOR'S OUT OF HER TANK!"

Sure enough...on the floor in front of the wood stove, there was a snake. I covered her with a tupperware bowl and went to check the tank to see if I'd left it open. It was closed. And locked.

Huh.

Looked under the hides and...there's Razor...in her tank.

WTH is that snake under my bowl on my floor?!?

Best we can figure is that the snake came in with a stack of firewood. Many of the pieces had loose bark, and I think it was hibernating between the bark and the log. My husband had brought several logs in, but we hadn't burned it, opting for the propane heated floor instead.

And...it wasn't a corn snake...it was an Eastern Milk Snake. We brought it to CountryMax in Farmington and gave it to a guy we'd met a few weeks before. He works there and is a snake enthusiast.

 

[Sweetpea3829]

The one thing I don't like about guineas is the noise. Holy moly the racket! Our neighbor has a flock....they frequently visit our property...lol.

 

[Desiree Brown]

so my first ever duck hatch and this little guy has his foot stuck out of the egg half way zipped. He has made no progress since. Like a half hour or so. Is this normal for ducks?

 

[Pyxis]

so my first ever duck hatch and this little guy has his foot stuck out of the egg half way zipped. He has made no progress since. Like a half hour or so. Is this normal for ducks?

You can pull him out if you want, looks like he might be stuck. They only start to zip once everything is absorbed so you could open the egg for him safely. Sometimes if they are really big they can get stuck like that.

 

[Desiree Brown]

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You can pull him out if you want, looks like he might be stuck. They only start to zip once everything is absorbed so you could open the egg for him safely. Sometimes if they are really big they can get stuck like that.

I helped him...

 

[Desiree Brown]

 

[Pyxis]

 

[Sristi]

Sweetpea that is a great snake story. I love it!

Desiree Brown, congrats on the duckling! They usually take a bit longer to hatch out than chicks. Sometimes a whole day from pipped to zipped.

So I've been trying to move my bantam cochins to a new enclosure up the hill so they can make compost for us. Dumb things keep flying out and wandering down to the house. My dogs know not to chase ducks, but they have a hard time resisting small flapping squawkers. It's been a juggling act trying to round up the banties and keep the dogs in with the family members constantly revolving through the house. So tonight I let out just my little terrier with the buzz collar on, to give her a little nip so she learns not to chase the hens. I guess I needn't have worried; my bantam cochin chased my dog all over the yard! The puppy was scared stiff. I wish I had a video to share with you.