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The last of this week’s predicted round is hatched! Here is “Close 3,” who didn’t show much indication of going anywhere when I checked before dinner!! edit: formatting

Hatch time was probably midnight, because when I came through at 1:30AM “Almost” was out of the shell already. This one is probably a keeper!!! The hen is lavender & cock was most likely her lavender mate from May (egg laid in June)… I don’t see the prominent pied streaks that the new guy...

“Close” hatched by ~6AM today! Unfortunately I didn’t have my phone with me before I ran out the door to get to work, but here is the incubator after I moved the fluffy dry “Close” to the brooder holding my week-olds. I monitored them until I saw the older ones teach “Close” how to drink...

7 eggs with dark tips, and the first one (labeled “close”) has also been the first to pip internally with chewing sounds & chirping! This has also been, incidentally, my first time to hear the chirp before the chew 🤔

I cleared out my broodies’ nest today (community guinea nest:rolleyes:) and dropped 3 of the 9 eggs present. Immediately candling, I found the first two to be clear (under/undeveloped) and… the third egg was far along: feathers, some yolk not absorbed, beautiful eyes, and—blood. :hit It was...

(Box upgraded since 1st photo)

Brooder at 95°F, in a long cardboard box w/ cloth bedding so it can migrate to preferred temperature

Has a sibling that pipped alongside it; this guy hatched while I was @ work today.

Heard egg-chewing sounds from one or two in my incubator tonight, so I went to crank the brooder temp back up to 93F. My latest hatchling had started in the brooder at 95°, and I’m worried that her close contact with the heating panel led to her FTT and eventual demise. So maybe 93 will be...

#FrankenBatch totally matches my collage of guinea eggs this year - ha! I found ~3 more on top of an appliance in the utility room that has apparently been incubating them, and the one that I’d penciled “Clear” definitely had blood vessels today. :eek: Those went into the empty cells in my...

Candled the remaining eggs in my incubator: pulled 2 clears that were well over 7 days old and now I’m left with 4 that have life for sure + “44g” that I thought I should keep there a little longer after realizing that perhaps 39g passed because I’d stored it prior to incubating, and maybe they...

and June 17 baby that still thinks the back of my neck is his broody mama :jumpy

Lavender guinea hen + pied cock :love

Unknown history on this one, but it decided to keep up with the other two I’ve been watching this month! Alas, “39g” stopped living a few days ago. Eggtopsy and burial occurred this morning. After my 1st incubator-hatched keet arrived, I did not do a deep clean because other eggs were still...

I have one egg with an external pip! Chirping & wiggling… and it’s not even the egg (“39g”) that I put a safety hole in at 6AM. 😱 The pecking/chewing noises have subsided from “39g,” and I am hoping against hope that I didn’t destroy it with the safety hole!! The hard part was that I’d been...

“39g” as this one is nicknamed has begun making pipping sounds! Technical due date is something like July 3, but my first hatches from the broody nest were early. The other egg I’d been monitoring was “44g” but I think it succumbed to fate around a week ago because it looks much different...

Is it time to splurge on a #Buddy monitor? :hmm So far I still just have the one keet that hatched 17th June, and I can’t tell how things are going with the other dozen-plus among incubator & beneath non-committed broody (shift change: the original broody Melba is rightfully relieved of her...

This little guy [guinea: 28-day course] has been in the incubator for 11 days, and was really dancing when I candled this morning! I haven’t seen such quality in comparison to candlings of previous eggs, so I’m crossing fingers that this one and its hatchmate continue to develop well. (Each...

I’m getting all of the hisses! :lau #guineas