South Carolina

[RedBugPoultry]

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Oh wow! I can imagine all the talk going on with 60!!! or more! Do your neighbors ever complain?

Okay, Kimberly's must not be a lavender because when she looked at mine when she was here earlier today, she didn't think hers look like them. So maybe another color. I have no ideas. It sure looked lav to an amateur Guinea owner like me.

Closes neighbor is about 1/4 of a mile away but they do hear them some times! And the 60 is only the babies!! Only about 6 are Coral Blues but I am now thinking of keeping them! We had so many Pearls hatch--they should be yard birds. We do not have any Pearls in the small birds so I think it is from the Royal Purples crossing with the Lavenders. The French stay away from them and they are the only Pearls--humm, or do they stay away?? No, the keet would be bigger!

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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I am just wondering if the Silkies would calm the keets down a bit. My Silkies are laid back (I expect everyone's are) and thought perhaps keets would be less stressed if raised with the Silkie clan.
If yours think they are Silkies then it must work. I'll see what these Silchins are able to do with the 3 eggs they are sitting on. They are in the same shed as my Silkies but their run goes out the back instead of to the side. Still, the Silkies are right next door and I only have that 2x4" wire to separate them.
This should be interesting.

 

[oneofseven]

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See!? That is all I ever get from CL people! I gave up listing anything.
However, I often go in and see what I can't afford.

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[CarolinaChickenKeeper]

FYI- went to tractor supply today, they no longer sell Sulmet liquid!?!?!

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Every time I see your name up there, oneofseven, I think of Star Trek...but that was 7 of 9, wasn't it? No, no, that was just Seven....wasn't it? Ah geez! A mind is a terrible thing.

With that I think I am taking myself off to finish chores. Talk to you all tomorrow.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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I just bought another bottle at the Hay Rack in Landrum. I got the last one on the shelf and told them to get more in.
I was going to order a gallon online but the cost of shipping put it way over the cost of just a qt at the feed store so I just buy a bottle when I get halfway through one.
I figure I will treat everyone the next few days before the sale since most of the birds have been out on the ground in baby pens.

Nikki, I put your Silkie eggs in the hatcher. Lost another splash 3 eggs...quitters.

Fingers crossed you get a great hatch from the rest of the shipped eggs!

 

[CarolinaChickenKeeper]

So, how many made it into lockdown?

Re my bird: she didn't leave her coop today. Puffed up, sitting inside, and panting with her mouth open. Poop is still clear water with green like grass. Gross!! I know, but something is wrong- shes not acting right.

 

[Joycats]

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I am just wondering if the Silkies would calm the keets down a bit. My Silkies are laid back (I expect everyone's are) and thought perhaps keets would be less stressed if raised with the Silkie clan.
If yours think they are Silkies then it must work. I'll see what these Silchins are able to do with the 3 eggs they are sitting on. They are in the same shed as my Silkies but their run goes out the back instead of to the side. Still, the Silkies are right next door and I only have that 2x4" wire to separate them.
This should be interesting.

Amy - I would just suggest that the silkie chicks outnumber the guinea keets a good bit. Those guineas tend to be a bit active and can run over some of the smaller, less active babies.

 

[phoneman]

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That's cool! Where did you get those birds from? Yeah those 2 grew really fast even in the short time I had them. I'm glad you may have a pair instead of 2 of one sex, esp roos. Why did you stop raising quail?

just can eat so many but i will get back into quail again. i also had bobwhite, gambrel, calif, valley, and hungarian partridge.

i got my sussex from a man in s. congaree. they are huge. on craiglist

 

[oneofseven]

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Wwwwelllll.... We are trekkies, but I am the the father and husband to a family of seven.

BTW her name was Seven-of-nine and it was shortened to Seven.