The 5th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

[ddhyland]

I love our guineas. They're fun to watch and great guard animals, but be warned, they are extremely LOUD and may pester the other poultry (especially around breeding season.)

Yep and the neighbors too! I keep wondering when they are going to ask us to move

. We have 10 chickens, 3 of which don't like our 1-1/2 acres of property and want to always got to the neighbor's yard, 1 extremely loud Umbrella Cockatoo who you can hear half way up the block when he is screaming (which is basically anytime I am on the phone, working, or have company over), and 3 loud teenage boys. Guineas just might push them over the edge!

 

[amyfitz100]

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Broody hens everywhere e They all have a variety of pheasant, Polish chicken and Serama eggs to sit on ! I can totally relax when the hens are doing the work. We have 6 hens on eggs.

What kind are those? Beautiful!

 

[TJChickens]

Oh how sweet - love the Goffins. I would so trade my DH's umbrella for a goffin!

Yeah, uh...no thanks

My female Goffins is totally sweet to me even when she has babies. The male is a monster. I will get pics up soon.

 

[TJChickens]

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What kind are those? Beautiful!

Thanks!
These are my son's d'Uccles. Wonderful little chickens!

 

[ddhyland]

Yeah, uh...no thanks

My female Goffins is totally sweet to me even when she has babies. The male is a monster. I will get pics up soon.

I know right, even I was like oh how cute and sweet he is yeah lets get him. The breeder was like "they are very loud." That is such an understatement!! You can hear him scream half a block away from my house sometimes. I know our neighbors hate us!

 

[ImpulsiveFarmer]

Quote: My neighbor loves our guineas, but he's an old farmer. He's also really really old, so I think his hearing is going. Guineas are really neat if you can't hear them.

 

[MaryRose213]

Quote: I am hatching out 14 eggs for a b arn yard mix, need more egg layers not really caring about purebreds right now...

The hens are
BO, EE, RIR, SL Wyndotte, Black sex link, and California whites

They were either covered by a BO roo or Barred Rock Roo. They share the hens when the other isn't looking LOL...

 

[ronott1]

Great anecdotal information but it really veers away from all major practices.

Ron,sally and just about anybody else will be happy to agree with me that ventilation is the most critical factor now.

Even with high humidity of hatching chicks, the hatch will do better with good ventilation.

Absolutely!

They suffocate if the humidity is too high and Ventilation is low. They do need ventilation now and no dead air in the room where they are hatching.

 

[Cynthia12]

dead air?

 

[ronott1]

dead air?

Stale air that has less oxygen in it. Closed doors and places where the vents in the bottom pull in the air. As fresh as possible.

Often air is very toxic in our houses. Gas stoves and ovens can make the air in the house so high that a City would have to send a plan to the Government with clean up strategies. The fumes from gas stoves is particularly bad for birds. People have had their canaries die from it too.