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Sending Light, Loving and gratitude for all you did for the little tyke ~ it was so very lucky to have you <3

(I have had to cover the mirror in my bathroom when I have very young keets in there just getting their feathers on, because they fly at it!)

Thank you, LP hangs out outside by day, running along the wire cage where his mother and father are (his dad and he are arch enemies), or alternately the parents are out of the run and LP is inside - again, he and Papa run alongside the wire for hours trying to get to each other. There are 4...

Wow - these guineas have head bumps much, much bigger than my guineas! (Australia) They're amazing! I have 25 who have their own protected perches outside (huge cage, high roosts). I have one guinea, LP, who runs around outside on acreage by day, and lives inside with me at night - watches tv ...

An addendum: I can hear the two females out in a paddock nesting, so I imagine, once the eggs hatch, they will just leave them and return to the big cage with the boys, so I'm fixing to go on a hunt to find them when the weather permits, with a heat pack in a box, and put them in the incubator...

HI This is an old post, but someone might benefit from what I've learned with 5 batches of keets under my belt. The first lot I incubated are my main flock - all 3 years old now, and some of them have sideways feet - something I didn't notice when they very very small ( I had 18). Now I've found...

It's easy to identify the males and females - males generally have a larger, more prominent bump on their head, and they make a very different call - 'chi chi chi chi - as opposed to the females 'buckwheat' call. I doubt they will range far in snow - maybe include some freeze dried meal worms or...

If you are feeding your guineas chicken food there is not enough protein - and, if they are not free roaming - which is what they need to do, they are not eating protein in the form of ticks and bugs. You will benefit from adding a few black soldier fly larvae or meal worms into their food...

Well this is good news! Over the last 3 years my females have all wandered off at nesting time and only once did one return - now she's gone too, I have a flock of 10 males who actually seem to get along perfectly fine. Their Mama and Papa live separately, and, interestingly, they only roam in...

Thank you so much ~ that puts my theory to rest leaving me with some vacant mental real estate :jumpy

What a sad story - and sadly also quite a familiar one for me. I've incubated a few batches each summer for two of the last 3 years. Some are just not quite right, and I've poured time and loving into a few tiny lives that have had foot or leg issues, only to have them pass after a few days of...

I have 4 x 3 yr old astralorp hens - 2 of them have 2 long spurs, and one of them only has one spur and the bud of a spur. I don't have any roosters, and I'm wondering if they grew the spurs as a response to not having a protective male around?

We have a mouse plague here in Australia - it's brought out some great solutions - the best is a bucket with a spindle inserted into 2 holes close to the top - first, the spindle is inserted through a plastic (water) bottle. Peanut butter is smeared on the bottle and water put into the bucket...

Here's a thought - fox deterrents - they emit lights that flash with no discernible pattern so they look like a torch is being used... the battery one is $Au100 and the solar version is $150. I just invested in one of each to figure out which is the most economically viable over time -...

Aw, Sunny is so very lucky to have a life, and to have you taking care of him :love All your birds are - Snowy is so very pretty! We have all learned this year that company doesn't always mean touching, perhaps they will be able to communicate better without fear and with wire in between them!