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We have had a lot of losses from hawks this year and wonder if there might be a rooster that makes a good watchdog. We have 8 bantam hens and 2 bantam roosters, a Silver Duckwing Old English Gamebird and a Silver Sebright. Although the gamebird is sometimes aggressive toward us and tries his...

I've had a hen trying to steal a nest from another hen for about a week. I kept tossing her off but she kept coming back, so eventually I decided to let them work it out. So two days ago the interloper won out. Today, only two days after the 2nd hen won the contest, was hatch day. I just...

Anyone have experience with a Murray McMurray High Hatch Incubator? I've been offered one at a good price but know nothing about how good they are.

Anyone have experience with the Murray McMurray High Hatch Incubator? Someone is offering to sell me one at a very reasonable price, but I know nothing about them to know if they're very good incubators.

We're working on plans for an automatic door opener for our coop and have a question for those of you who have used car antennas. We're wondering if the motors for these antennas hold up over time or if people have trouble with them burning out. It seems like opening a door is a much bigger...

We have a small flock of guinea fowl that we added a buff sebright bantam hen to with no problem. So we then added a pair of bantams that turned out to be silver duckwing old English gamebirds. While the hen is quite docile, the rooster has gotten very aggressive toward us. We've been trying...

We've been letting a banty hen incubate some guinea eggs and they are due to hatch today. We plan to catch up most of them to sell but thought we might let her keep a couple to see how well she would do raising them. So now it occurs to me--what do I do about food and water for the little...

Hoping someone has some thoughts on what's going on with one of our guineas. She had a nest of 16 eggs. I removed 10, left 6 behind so she would continue to lay. Every day she lays one, but three days ago she didn't want to come off the nest in the evening to go into the barn. We got her off...

Can anyone tell me what kind of bantam these chicks are?

We have 7 keets about 10 weeks old. Two weeks ago I noticed one of them sort of tiptoeing when it walks. It spends most of its time perched or hunkered down in their pen, but when it does walk, it doesn't use its whole foot--and this is true for both feet. I have no reason to think it's not...