Questions about incubating Guinea Fowl Eggs!

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Hi I read through this thread hoping for answers. Found some great info but not all I needed.
We are Newbies to incubator hatching
We moved guinea eggs under a broody chicken a couple weeks ago- didn’t know how long the chicken(7) or guinea(12) eggs had been sat upon. I won’t go into the details of possible reasons, but the hen abandoned the eggs. After an overnight where they sat out in the night air, we bought an incubator and moved the eggs - (couple of days ago). One of the chicks hatched today. So I unplugged the egg turner And moved the chick to a brooder setup after it looked dry. It appears perfectly healthy. Now other chicken and guinea eggs are pipping. Maybe more chicks/keets in the AM? Hope so
Couple questions -
1. will it hurt the chicks to be on that uneven surface of the egg turner? Since we’re in lockdown now, I can’t take the eggs off of it. When can I move the hatched ones to the brooder w/o affecting others still to hatch?
2. How do I add H20 for humidity to a Farm innovations 4200? Tried with tubing run through the vent hole but I couldn’t see what I was doing and the water ran under the machine
Sorry for this LONG post
Kathy
 
chancegardner said:
Hi I read through this thread hoping for answers. Found some great info but not all I needed.
We are Newbies to incubator hatching
We moved guinea eggs under a broody chicken a couple weeks ago- didn’t know how long the chicken(7) or guinea(12) eggs had been sat upon. I won’t go into the details of possible reasons, but the hen abandoned the eggs. After an overnight where they sat out in the night air, we bought an incubator and moved the eggs - (couple of days ago). One of the chicks hatched today. So I unplugged the egg turner And moved the chick to a brooder setup after it looked dry. It appears perfectly healthy. Now other chicken and guinea eggs are pipping. Maybe more chicks/keets in the AM? Hope so
Couple questions -
1. will it hurt the chicks to be on that uneven surface of the egg turner? Since we’re in lockdown now, I can’t take the eggs off of it. When can I move the hatched ones to the brooder w/o affecting others still to hatch?
2. How do I add H20 for humidity to a Farm innovations 4200? Tried with tubing run through the vent hole but I couldn’t see what I was doing and the water ran under the machine
Sorry for this LONG post
Kathy
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Lockdown is not as critical as some would like you to think. You can take the eggs off of the turner and remove it if you want to.

You can take the keets and chicks out of the incubator when you want to although it is best to wait until they appear dry.

You can open the incubator so that you can align your tubing so that the next time you add water it ends up in the right place. It would have been best if you had done this before lockdown. If needed you can open the incubator to add water.

It helps if you make it so the incubator being open is held to a minimum and for as short a duration as possible. You can add a wet cloth to help get the humidity back up as quickly as possible.
 
R2elk said:
Lockdown is not as critical as some would like you to think. You can take the eggs off of the turner and remove it if you want to.

You can take the keets and chicks out of the incubator when you want to although it is best to wait until they appear dry.

You can open the incubator so that you can align your tubing so that the next time you add water it ends up in the right place. It would have been best if you had done this before lockdown. If needed you can open the incubator to add water.

It helps if you make it so the incubator being open is held to a minimum and for as short a duration as possible. You can add a wet cloth to help get the humidity back up as quickly as possible.
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Thanks so much R2elk !
I need not to have worried! I followed your advice and we now have 3 chicks and 14 keets!!
Now, I’m looking for someone local who wants to buy some or all of our 9 surplus keets. We are about halfway between Madison & Milwaukee
 
chancegardner said:
Thanks so much R2elk !
I need not to have worried! I followed your advice and we now have 3 chicks and 14 keets!!
Now, I’m looking for someone local who wants to buy some or all of our 9 surplus keets. We are about halfway between Madison & Milwaukee
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For sale ads have to be placed in the Buy ~ Sell ~ Trade forum. You are far better off to advertise them locally on either your local craigslist or your local Facebook. Some local feed stores have bulletin boards where they allow buy/sell posts to be made.
 
I had huge problems getting humidity to stay steady. I found the sponge method time wOrkney the best. I cut a sponge into small pieces, roughly about an inch . Fourban of these pieces does it for my 48 egg incubator. My smaller incubator I use one. I second the part about lock down. I continuously hatch eggs year round and they donto all start at the same time. Case in point, my Guinea nest had 30 eggs until last week One of my male Guins woke me up with his alarm scream so I stagger outside with my flashlight to find an absolutely GIGANTIC rather coon happily slurping down my guinea egg! So I politely asked hime to vacate my yard forthwith, yeah right in gave him the proverbial get the blank out of here. No sign of mama so I grabbed the eggs and took them all to my incubator. Apparently I had miscalculated themail to nest date. They were clear as a window pane. I was disappointed but left them in the incubator. Good thing too because I recandled last night and 75% now have blastoderms. I have now 3 ddifferent stages of eggs going in my incubator so no way really to make all of the babies happy.
 

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