It is wonderful we have all these new people on here~~welcome all of you!
Wish some of you lived closer to me. I have some nice Standard/Giant Cochin pullets down here for sale. And I still have some really nice young guineas and keets!! Oh, and I cannot forget the pen of Polish girls and boys--I have already gotten a few eggs from those girls!
I am trying to give my OEGB Black roos away -- which is not happening! No one even wants them for free? I am buying a non-related year old black roo this weekend for the girls and getting rid of all the related boys.
Now I have 5 more newly hatched keets in the brooder! Saved from the deserted guinea nest. The girls still have 3 keets with them and I have been keeping moms and babies in the large guinea pen with no complaints. I was going to throw the rest of the eggs out of the incubator this morning and I see one more egg is pipped--Anyone want some keets for $1 a piece?
Also, I put a small fan in the cochins shed and after 2 days got 6 eggs! The girls must like a little cool air. I have been leaving it on day and night because the air just does not move in there and they are starting to hang out in there even when the shade is back on the run! Happy hen!
One other thing I wanted to mention since we have been having a great discussion on our poultry care practices--The woman I got my colored guinea eggs from last year had stressed to me to worm my guineas at least 2 time a year. She said when she first started raising giuneas she had several that just layed down in the yard and would not move. After a few days they died. She took one of the bird to her vet to see if he could figure out what was going on and he called her and asked if she ever wormed her birds? Which she said at that point she did not but has made it a routine now. I have not seen that behavior in my birds but just incase anyone ever does I thought I would share.
