This is my first attempt at hatching guineas. The first one came out last night and I thought it would be running around this morning but it's just laying around. It picks it's head up and chirps. It scoots around the hatcher but doesn't walk. I gave it some poultry drench about 3 hours ago...
Just curious about everyone's experience with dry hatching.
My first attempt at hatching didn't go well at all. I put 40 eggs in and got 2 babies. I was so focused on humidity being perfect. My friend who raised birds way longer than me suggested dry hatching so I figured I might as well try...
So I'm using the little giant still air incubator as a hatcher. It's in the same shed as the brooders so I thought the smell was the brooders. No...the hatcher smelled like mildew. It was so strong I felt bad about keeping the newly hatched ones in there to dry. After I put the babies in the...
I'm Christine. I run a small 5 acre farm with my husband, who is just as crazy as I am. We've got 3 horses, 6 dogs, 2 daughters,3 cats,3 lizards, raise goats,chickens,ducks, & guineas. I also have one Katahdin/dorper ram that I bottlefed.
My chickens:
Ameraucana
Silver laced wyandotte
Buff...