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[phoneman]

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did you hatch these from eggs or did you buy as chicks. where did these come from. wow sorry for all the trouble you have with these.

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

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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.

I was looking at it again earlier - I swear it is mixed

some of the feathers look like dots, some look more like chevrons or something. Depending on where on the wing.

I will try ot get pics tomorrow.

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

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Was it as good as it smelled? I need to place an order soon. Tired of buying at Bed Bath and Beyond, even with a discount. Where do you order yours from?

Yes it was pretty good! Didn't taste like brownies though!

I ordered from Keurig.com ......I have searched all around, and for a variety, I have to go to 2 grocery stores, and Kohls. No one had the celestial seasonings tea.

So I just ordered straight from the site.

They have 5 cup sample packs $3-$4
Other packs are either 22 cup or 24 cup & price varies from $12-15. (Pretty good considering a 48 cup variety pack from Kohl's runs me almost $40 not on sale.) And my hot chocolate is from a grocery store for $10 for 12 cups.

ETA: Fast too.....I ordered them Sunday.......got them today

 

[Lroach711]

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did you hatch these from eggs or did you buy as chicks. where did these come from. wow sorry for all the trouble you have with these.

One was hatched, 2 were from a feed store, and the rest were from a breeder I got eggs from.

I don't think it has anything to do with where they came from since they were all from diff. places. grr..maybe I shouldn't have let them free range..but they've always done so good with it.

 

[TheRealTimShady]

who's doing quail in the LOWCOUNTRY...i'm talking bluffton, beaufort, hardeeville, hilton head :O

 

[gvilledh]

Lou Ann and I gave the girls some feed tonight in a deep dish. Harriet, the Ameraucana has a slight case of cross beak, and it is easier for her to eat out of a deeper bowl. Of course, we knew everyone would want to eat and since we were mainly just seeing how Harriet would do with it tonight, we let them all have a chance. This picture shows what they thought about it and how much they like Williams Feed...

I can't believe I actually have all seven of them in that picture!

Here is our Cuckoo Marans, Maranda. She is top hen and oh, so, bossy. We are thinking that little Harriet is second in command. She was sleeping on the top roost last night, at least.

Last, but not least, is Harriet. She loved the food in the bowl and stayed in her spot the entire time, eating away. One time, we thought she might repeat her Saturday performance and stand in the bowl, but she resisted the temptation.

 

[Joycats]

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Joy, have you ever let your chickens hatch Guinea eggs for you and raise up the keets? Or just let them hatch the Guineas and you raise in a brooder after that? Or do you just let the Guineas hatch out and catch them then?

I wondered what to do when the Guinea eggs hatch under the Silchins. And thought maybe let the Silkies raise some keets but then thought, no, the Silkies may not watch them well.
But Miss Muffet is super good at teaching the chicks to go up the ramp into the coop at a few days old. She stands at the bottom of the ramp and calls them around her and then starts up the ramp and keeps calling. Of course, at first, the chicks all go running under the ramp or jump off the ramp but she is so good to come back down and start all over. I have noticed that if I interfere with her teaching process by scooping them up and putting them in it takes her a lot longer to teach them how to go up the ramp. I suppose I am an interfering old bag but some nights I don't have time for her to keep after them.
I just wonder if keets would be easy for her to deal with....

Yes, I love for the hens to raise guineas for me. They do a super job and if possible, I leave the keets with them. I always separate my broody hens and give them some sort of pen to raise the babies in for the first few weeks. I've only had one guinea go broody except for the hen that just started sitting yesterday. Last year I let one guinea hen hatch and I placed a small pen around her when the keets were hatched. I was planning to let her take them out after a week, just wanted to give them all a chance to know where to find food and water. But she was so distraught over not being able to get out (it was only 2' hardware cloth) that she was running her poor babies to death around that circle. Then she was stepping on them and she didn't show them food or water and I lost one the first day. By the third day she'd killed them all but 3 and I took them away from her and put them in a brooder and let her out (of that 2' fence).

Anyway, I ended up losing all of the keets that she hatched. The 3 I took all died. Now I have a guinea hen that is sitting and I've left her only 5 or 6 eggs. I will let her hatch and try to raise them herself without interference from me. At least that is the plan. I would like to see if she can do as well as the ducks. I don't bother the ducks and they do quite well. I'll let you know what happens.

 

[RedBugPoultry]

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Humm, very good question! You know we have GQF right in Savannah who sell quail eggs....

 

[RedBugPoultry]

I have always had bad luck with my guineas raising keets. I tried leaving the 3 with 2 hens this year in a large pen with lots of room and they still figured out how to get them killed--all but one (a coral blue) that I took away and is still alive. I still find though that hatching them in the brooder give me the healthest keets.

Speaking of keets, I have about 5 guinea hens setting at this time on eggs--first time I have ever left that many eggs out and about. One poor hen yesterday lost most of her eggs to something and they should have hatched for her soon. Pulled them out of the nest and left nothing but shells and wrappings! I have also lost a young cochin pullet in the last couple of days and during a ruckus yesterday a French Pearl ran out of the woods near my green house in fear for her life--I found a bunch of feather that had just been pulled out of her on the edge of the trees. Well, all the guineas spent the rest of the day around the house and on top of their pen. When hubby came home he wanted to run to town so we all loaded into the truck and low and behold, as we were driving out the driveway, one of the male guinea(Coral Blue) was rushing something on the edge of the shrubs. As we drove up a good size racoon ran from the shrubs and up a tree. We are talking about 5 in the afternoon. Not sure what the laws are on coon hunt this time of year so we will leave it at that.....

When we got back home there was a lot less tension in the bird population!

Of course I better stop typing and go check on everyone this morning!

 

[emptynester]

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we are in the process of building our cages now

Plan on ordering eggs to hatch this weeekend.