I don't consider myself a hatching expert by any means, but I used to have pretty good luck hatching chicken eggs, but this year has been a disaster! Last year, I used a little giant incubator in my classroom with the kids and all our eggs hatched except 3. When I hatched more at home, we had...
I am new to this, but have had 4 hatches of guinea eggs and hardly any "empty" eggs. I am now on my last hatch of eggs. Am soooo disappointed. I ordered 3 dozen eggs from Stromberg's and candled them this evening because lockdown is this Friday (July3). There were 16 that were completely...
I was mowing at the farm, and didn't realize one of the guineas was sitting on her eggs in some tall weeds I was mowing. I about ran over her as she did not fly up until the mower was practically on her. Unfortunately, I smashed two eggs and the yolks went everywhere. I felt sooooo bad!! I...
I am a newbie and have been trying to hatch guinea eggs. Did pretty well with the first hatch. The second hatch had about 7 eggs that would not hatch with the others. Most of the 25 eggs hatched from day 26-30. One more hatched on day 35. Then we had 6 eggs that just would'nt hatch. We...
I've hatched 15 keets and still waiting on the other 17. Most of them hatched about day 27-29. Is this normal? I am new at hatching guineas! I have the humidity at 80% because that's what most of my research advised. On the site here, I see that some hatch at 60%. I hope I haven't drowned...
I am new at hatching keets! I've hatched chickens, but new to keets. This is my second hatch (the first hatch went fine), and I have one keet whose legs are really spread apart. Do I need to try to tie them together a little? He seems to have difficulty getting them under him. I have put paper...