One of my 2 week old guinea keets has some very runny poops. It just started about a day ago.. which is also the same day I introduce mealworms for the first time. They are eating turkey starter crumble, fresh water, access to grit and only giving mealworms once a day as trying to convince the...
This is a warning to silky lovers. I hatched 25 silky chicks and all was good. Until I put 6 guinea keets in with them. They were the same size and at first nothing was wrong. Overnight the guineas had accedently killed 22 chicks. They squished them not on purpose though 3 where left the 3 still...
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I have 7 chickens and 3 guineas who all sleep in the same coop every night. The guineas poop a lot more than the chickens and I am having trouble keeping the ammonia smell under control. The coop is lifted, has a door for them to come in and out, and two windows higher up for...
Someone help! We found an odd Guinea fowl from the store because it was by itself. It can't walk, seems off balance, and the skin near it's beak raises up when it breathes. What could possibly be wrong? We have no experience with Guinea so we need help :(
So my baby guinea was too weak to even pip a egg so i ended up slowly pipping it without hurting it and it succeded.. But it couldnt get out after 24 hrs i ended up hatching her very very gently but her end started to bleed and she is not moving now what should i do put it back in the incubator?
So its been 15 hours since the egg pipped and so i tried to be gentle with manual hatch i kept watering it slowly with warm water checking condtantly for veins.. So there was just a little bit of shell remaining and the chicken got it head of it... So i thought why dont i get it out of the egg...
Hello Folks,
I just joined and it was suggested to introduce myself.
I am New to chickens. I just started in May 2018. Our town only allows 6 birds so I got 4 chickens and 2 Guinea hen.
The chickens are a Red Cross, 1 Buff Orpington, and 2 Plymouth rock ( 1 white 1 barred)
The original...