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Chicken mama, or guinea mama we talking about?

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Ann

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Date Posted: 03:18:22 08/08/02 Thu
In reply to: Marion 's message, "You may want to move your setting guinea mama" on 13:32:37 08/07/02 Wed

>4 months old????? That's incredible to be setting.
>Guinea hens are very easy prey for predators when they
>are setting on their eggs, unless you got lucky and
>have her already setting in a coop or safe place.
>That would be wonderful. I have 1 adult guinea hen
>and have never found her nests.
>
>At what age will Mama take her babies out to play??
>Right now I have each Mama in a cage that is 2x2x2.
>Is that big enough? for how long? How do I let them
>out to play? They are in the coop which is inside a
>yard. Do they need their own yard? or will mama
>protect her babies from all others?
>
>Marion

I'm new to chicken raising. I've only just gotten 4 my sex-linked hens this March as day olds, and do not have a roo for them. This was purposeful on my part, so as not to disturb my neighbors with a roo, and then not to have to weed out later on for roos. But I've heard tell that Chicken mommies and their babies do not like other the chicken mommies and babies of others in the same pen. I've heard they will attack and kill the other babies....that was posted on FowlAround a couple months ago, I think. I don't know how long you would want to keep them in a 2x2x2 cage. I have no clue there. I have some good chicken links I could give you:

Backyard Chickens
Quackers links page
Tony O's links

Guiniea's are bad mothers. They loose their keets if on free range. They also stop setting on the eggs and don't remain after a few hatch. But have heard of them returning home from the field with like 19 keets. I've only let one female stay on a field nest and that was this year, my third year with my guineas, and she was ate by a coyote. So sad. Last time I do that, lol. But I did have a nest in the coop this year from my guinea girls, and they hatched out six out of like a hundred eggs...lol. All the other years the crows would steal their eggs out of the field nests. I removed the keets to a brooder as they hatched. I sold 4 and kept 2. The 2 I kept are about 6 weeks old now, and I have been letting them free range for a little bit the last few days. I still put them up in the brooder/nursery cage in the coop at night, so as not to be pecked to death from the adults just yet..in the pecking order way of life. They are still only 1/4 the size of an adult guinea.

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Thanks for links. I am ....	Marion	09:23:47 08/08/02 Thu
Re: Nah. LOL Was talking about Guinea mama's but i'm new With Guineas! :-P -- Sandy, 10:02:12 08/08/02 Thu