Recent content by jwilhite

Thanks, MeepBeep. That's good to know. I had a similar question and found the answer here. I just ordered 2 dozen guinea eggs and they will arrive today. I was wondering if I should just stick them underneath my currently-broody guinea hens and let nature take it's course. However, these...

Our guineas seemed to benefit from practicing going in and out of the coop. We let our guineas out at 4 weeks old (which is supposedly too young to let them out), but we only let them out for about 30 minutes at a time; then we would herd them back into the coop again. We had a grasshopper...

I'm curious how you know they aren't fertile. Are you breaking them and checking, or are you just trying to incubate them with no results?

Thank you so much! That was very helpful. Two of my guineas like to fight each other. I always thought they just had a personal vendetta, but I guess those are just my two males. I found a clutch of about 30 eggs and I put most of them in the incubator tonight. I don't have any idea how long...

I have seven guineas and I don't know how many are female, but they recently started laying. They usually free range, but early this morning I was able to coop them up, and by this evening I had 5 new eggs in the coop (four in the morning, one in the late afternoon). So...seven guineas, five...