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HELP! How to care for baby guinney fowl (keets)?

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We had about 15 little keets hatch, and we do not know how to keep them warm :0 We got a lamp with a warm bulb, and have positioned it above the keets. Most are ok, but some are struggling, and very cold.

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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

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This is not entirely unknown among domestic animals, but many domesticates have no living wild version. They became known as “Turkie Fowl” (spelling varies) because they were coming from the general direction of Turkey. Bringing animals that would require feed and water at that early stage would have been unwise.

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Mad Max The Macaw Is Pretty Boy Again With 3D-Printed Titanium Prosthetic Beak After It Was Ripped Off In Fowl Fight » Ananova

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Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve: the Gaur Morning

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It is one of the ancestors of domestic fowl. Bigger than the African Buffalo or the American Bison, it is the largest land animal after the Elephant, Rhino, the Hippopotamus and the Giraffe. February 2013. In front of us, in the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve one wild Grey Junglefowl runs across the road.

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Brewery Ommegang: Idyll Days Pilsner

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Following this early example, weathervanes in classical antiquity often assumed the form of animals and mythological beings – often deifications of the four compass winds – traditions that carried on in Europe long past the fall of Rome. Of course, there may very well have been fowl-inspired weathervanes in ancient Greece and Rome.

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Gardner Williams (1895-1972) on Wronging Animals

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The interests in nourishment and in gustatory pleasure lead man to kill and eat cattle, fish, and fowl. This cuts down on the long-range satisfactions of the cattle, the fish, and the fowl. And I believe that in most cases man is morally justified in thus reducing the satisfactions of the food animals.

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Henry S. Salt (1851-1939) on Fish-Eating

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Before leaving this question of "consistency," as affected by the gradations of our duty of humaneness to animals, a few words may be said on the practice of fish-eating. Salt , The Logic of Vegetarianism: Essays and Dialogues [London: The Ideal Publishing Union, 1899], 57-8 [italics in original])

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