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My 7 pearl babies went off to their new home yesterday, and I put the 2 lavender ones outside with Dave, so for the first time in months and months there are no keets or chicks in the house! it's very quiet. One of them has started making go-back noises i think, I'm certain Dave is a hen now...

Mixed fortunes here. Young Dave and his (her) buddy are eating mealworms from my hand. Operation Tame Guineas has been moderately successful so far 😊 they are starting to grown their little horns and their heads are going bald. I feel quite proud of them, my first proper hatchlings 😂 The 9...

oh that's tough. We have had a very mixed bag this year, first 2 attempts were using a small borrowed incubator and of the first 7, only 1 hatched but it took forever to zip and never really thrived despite having a couple of chicks for company. Second time we got 2 out of 7 and they are now 8...

I got my husband to cull the crossbeak when he got home, couldn't face it myself. He's made of tougher stuff than me. But this morning we had another keet hatch, day 31... this one is absolutely fine and now in with the others :ya After the crossbeak hatched I thought perhaps I should have...

Fortunately for Lavender Dave this week's hatch included 2 more lavenders. Strength in numbers! They are 6 weeks apart but I don't suppose that will make much difference by the time they are all getting big enough to join the adults, hopefully they will be able to stand up for themselves. I've...

Do people find that the funny coloured ones get picked on? our adults are all pearl so I'm worried about Dave integrating 🫣

My home-grown keets went outside for the first time yesterday. They are 6 weeks old now but the weather has been so miserable here in the UK I didn't dare put them out any earlier as I didn't want them to get too cold... i brought my young chooks inside at night when they first started going...

Totally normal... nothing to see here... 🤣 😳

I've seen so many mixed verdicts about raising them with chickens. My chooks are about 8 weeks old, my 2 keets about 4 weeks old, i suppose there's too much of an age gap really to mix them. as chickens can be such savages I really hesitate to put them together. their behaviour is so different...

I moved my pair of 2 week old keets into a bigger brooder box with a lid yesterday as they were looking about ready to escape their first home. they were so shellshocked to begin with that they perched on top of the brooder plate all day... fortunately they got brave enough to go underneath it...

Sorry to hear your keets are unwell. They seem so fragile. I hope they turn a corner soon. Dave is Lavender, I think, which was unexpected from our pearl adults, but admittedly I know almost nothing about the genetics of their colours 😳 Dave3 was doing the splits upon hatching so got...

Well my newest one moved from the incubator into the brooder 🥰 I've just noticed another has pipped. these are eggs from our little gang and it's their first year laying so it's a bit experimental at this point. only one hatched from the last attempt and it sadly died after a few days. I'd had...