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keets just don't want to live, huh.
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# ? May 6, 2016 11:25 |
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# ? May 8, 2024 05:09 |
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The Narrator posted:keets just don't want to live, huh.
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# ? May 6, 2016 11:42 |
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the keets survived they're now back to their usual sparkly-eyed fool selves
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# ? May 7, 2016 00:26 |
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good birbs
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# ? May 7, 2016 00:38 |
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The Narrator posted:birds just don't want to live, huh.
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# ? May 7, 2016 03:13 |
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Ah man. I miss my guinea fowl. I ended up moving and giving them away to a former neighbor. They are supreme tick eaters, which is why I got them to begin with. Other than that, they're just utterly retarded and amusing as hell to watch. And yes, their eggs are SO good. Way better than chicken eggs. Enjoy your guineas! They're the best. Post more pics too.
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# ? May 7, 2016 07:29 |
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the keets went marching bravely out into the field yesterday and only four came back i'm shattered. at least i've still got four i guess
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# ? May 7, 2016 23:28 |
Avshalom posted:the keets went marching bravely out into the field yesterday and only four came back i'm shattered. at least i've still got four i guess
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# ? May 8, 2016 00:05 |
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Avshalom posted:the keets went marching bravely out into the field yesterday and only four came back i'm shattered. at least i've still got four i guess Can they fly yet? They will absolutely roost in a tree instead of going back into the coop at night if they can. I spent many evenings pulling guineas out of trees and putting them away at night. They'll also do this thing where they find some really tight vegetation to nest down into. You'll only be able to find them by listening to them if they do this. I had one hen who just had this overwhelming need to always nest in this great big patch of poison ivy that was wedged under some really low pine branches. It took me 2 days to find her the first time.
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# ? May 8, 2016 00:29 |
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i don't think there are any trees low enough for them at their current flying skill - the land around here is very heavily cleared and i've sussed out every shrub with a branch less than two metres from the ground i'm hoping they've found some vegetation to nest in too, we don't slash the paddock often because we don't have any large stock and there's a big population of native quails and finches that like long grass. i've had keets escape and turn up the next morning totally fine before, which i was hoping would happen this time too. they may be waiting for me when i get home from work. fingers crossed. tracking them down by listening for them is always fun, they hold such musical little conversations with each other
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# ? May 8, 2016 02:27 |
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i've given up on the lost keets. i can't imagine they'd survive two nights out in torrential rain. i just don't understand how something could have got five at once. we have hawks and eagles but they couldn't possibly get more than two at a time, keets run so fast, and the other poultry lose their poo poo if anything like a fox or dog comes onto the property so surely i would have heard it. there are no sad little tufts of feathers like i find when a quail gets taken, either. this is really depressing, especially as the two that my mother saved from drowning were among the group that went missing. at least i still have four left. the next batch will be raised alongside chickens - that's what i did with the first hatching, and those keets always returned back to the chook shed with their little flock at the end of the day sorry to bring the thread down. i'll be buying some more eggs soon and the madness will start again
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# ? May 9, 2016 14:30 |
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I'm sorry about the keets but I also look forward to future-keets
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# ? May 9, 2016 21:24 |
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Avshalom posted:i'll be buying some more eggs soon and the madness will start again Give those eggs to a broody hen. Save you the fuss of an incubator and the keets will be more likely to be coop oriented. Also looking forward to more guinea pics and stories
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# ? May 10, 2016 03:44 |
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i plan to raise these ones with some chicks (mum wants some more araucanas ) because that's what i did with the last brood and those keets were good at following their little friends home at the end of the day. all my mature hens are currently trailing little broods of real chickens and i lost my two broodiest in a fox attack two weeks ago so unfortunately i don't know when the next will start sitting i really do apologise for this feelgood thread running into the ditch but that is the farming life and i've learnt many valuable lessons. i will never lose another precious keet. not one! i will have hundreds of guinea fowl
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# ? May 10, 2016 08:43 |
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This was a good post, and I loved the pictures. Thanks for many stories of baby keets, they are so loving cute!
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# ? May 20, 2016 03:19 |
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Shabbat shalom, thread. Shabbat shalom, Avshalom. Shabbat shalom, keets.
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# ? May 20, 2016 19:16 |
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keets!
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# ? Jun 10, 2016 15:52 |
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Ausrotten posted:keets!
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# ? Jun 10, 2016 16:35 |
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I knocked over a dandelion and there they were! so any guesses on their adult coloration? I'm not too versed in guinea coloring
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# ? Jun 11, 2016 05:50 |
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Ausrotten posted:I knocked over a dandelion and there they were! I think the white one will turn green.
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# ? Jun 11, 2016 13:03 |
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im gonna paint them purple with blukote
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# ? Jun 11, 2016 17:36 |
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At what age can you safely incorporate pine shavings in with keets?
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# ? Jun 20, 2016 03:10 |
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if any of you have a question that can be summed up as "should i get keets" then the answer is yes you should get keets, they're delightful. just a few suggestions: 1) get guinea fowl eggs and incubate them if you can, because then you get newborn keets and they're the cutest, and more importantly because that means they always think of your property as home. whatever container you use as a brooder box you can just put in your coop for a few days once they're off the heat and they'll go back to it at night once you let them out to run around. hypothetically. it works with my keets but some keets are stupider/smarter and will never see the box as their house no matter how long they spend locked in it. also if you raise chicken chicks and keets together, they form a flock and when the chickens naturally come home in the evenings the keets follow them 2) if you get older keets, don't let them roam for at least a week after you bring them home. they do develop a homing instinct eventually but for the first few days they yearn for the wilderness until they figure out where the food comes from. always feed them in the coop at first. 3) i've never had a problem with any chicks eating pine shavings but i'd give the keets a week to figure out what's food and what's not 4) ausrotten, your keets are all going to stay more or less the same colour except for the brown ones with stripy heads - that's the original wild colour and they grow up pearl (black with white spots and blue heads). some of them might get lighter or darker but they won't change dramatically. i'm really interested to see what the little white one with the brown streak looks like! they are a beautiful little cluster 5) don't get keets in winter unless you have a very well-insulated or heated barn, even if they're old enough not to need a brooder. i bought seventeen (!!) recently and the first time it rained they all went out and stood in it like a pack of idiots, i had to do a dramatic rescue and lost five from hypothermia because they were wet in addition to being cold, which is something they don't deal with. luckily my quail shed was set up fairly well already so i was able to seal it off and fill it with straw and the remaining twelve keets are doing fine. they and the quails seem to be getting along well which is pretty cute. i'll be moving them back out soon when they're better able to cope with the cold but just keep it in mind, they can and will kill themselves in any way possible my surviving three from the last brood (two piebalds and a lavender) are doing well and have graduated to the big chook roosts. if you can't see the lavender one, look closely at the stripy hen on the lefthand side: keets!
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# ? Jun 23, 2016 04:38 |
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lol these things are like the ugly duckling in reverse
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# ? Jun 23, 2016 06:44 |
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keets
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# ? Jun 23, 2016 08:09 |
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willus posted:keets Keets
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# ? Jun 23, 2016 09:48 |
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Avshalom posted:
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# ? Jun 23, 2016 13:29 |
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Avshalom posted:ausrotten, your keets are all going to stay more or less the same colour except for the brown ones with stripy heads - that's the original wild colour and they grow up pearl (black with white spots and blue heads). some of them might get lighter or darker but they won't change dramatically. i'm really interested to see what the little white one with the brown streak looks like! they are a beautiful little cluster unfortunately the entire batch died over the course of three days The feed store we got them from said other people were having problems as well, so they refunded us on 6 and gave us the four the had left but still it really loving sucked. Our four new keets are strong and healthy tho
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# ? Jun 23, 2016 16:41 |
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The Narrator posted:Keets aww keet keet motherfucker
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# ? Jun 23, 2016 23:20 |
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Hi one of my keets is a retarded baby with a hosed up leg and no matter how many times I try to splint his gross little twig leg so the tendon will stay right, it just wildly flails around and he runs around fine on it so gently caress it, he'll probably die getting trampled but for now his name is Bendy Straw.
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# ? Jun 23, 2016 23:39 |
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Ausrotten posted:unfortunately the entire batch died over the course of three days The feed store we got them from said other people were having problems as well, so they refunded us on 6 and gave us the four the had left but still it really loving sucked. Our four new keets are strong and healthy tho Fluffy Bunnies posted:Hi one of my keets is a retarded baby with a hosed up leg and no matter how many times I try to splint his gross little twig leg so the tendon will stay right, it just wildly flails around and he runs around fine on it so gently caress it, he'll probably die getting trampled but for now his name is Bendy Straw.
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# ? Jun 24, 2016 00:06 |
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I've had em about a week and so far they're doing great and making my life miserable by peeping wildly at all hours
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# ? Jun 24, 2016 16:16 |
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Ausrotten posted:I've had em about a week and so far they're doing great and making my life miserable by peeping wildly at all hours
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# ? Jun 25, 2016 01:31 |
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KEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETKEEEEEEEEEEEEEETKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET *is 3am* this is why i hated my turkey polts. peeppeepPEEPPEEP at all loving hours. if escaping the brooder is that loving scary stay in it you trash animal. at least the keets are way cuter and also less repulsively messy
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# ? Jun 25, 2016 04:13 |
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they're so cute they seem to have more melodic voices than my other birds, listening to them trill and burble contentedly to each other is nice. i often go into their shed and just chill with them and the quail
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# ? Jun 25, 2016 07:55 |
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They do, I keep mistaking mine for songbirds. It's quite pleasant when they aren't melting down. I like them a lot, they are good chicks
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# ? Jun 25, 2016 18:20 |
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Thanks, jerks. Now I need to get keets next year.
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# ? Jun 25, 2016 21:46 |
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Lynza posted:Thanks, jerks. Now I need to get keets next year. i'm honoured to be the keet ambassador Avshalom fucked around with this message at 06:22 on Jun 27, 2016 |
# ? Jun 27, 2016 06:05 |
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I like their little helmet heads and stern expressions
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# ? Jun 27, 2016 07:29 |
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# ? May 8, 2024 05:09 |
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Fluffy Bunnies posted:Hi one of my keets is a retarded baby with a hosed up leg and no matter how many times I try to splint his gross little twig leg so the tendon will stay right, it just wildly flails around and he runs around fine on it so gently caress it, he'll probably die getting trampled but for now his name is Bendy Straw.
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