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Just found the source of the information about guineas needing to eat with in 6 hours of hatching. It's from a book by Wright, published in 1885. And, no, they don't.

The amount of misinformation about guineas on the Internet is astronomical. I, too, have read that guineas have to start eating within 6 hours of hatch. Nonsense! And I just had a guinea hatch two days ago - on day 20. The other 27 eggs are just sitting there, waiting for a more reasonable hatch...

It has been my personal experience that a hawk will just as soon eat a rooster as a hen.

I'm fairly new to chickens and incubating, and most - OK, all - of what I've learned has been from books and the Internet. One of the things I've seen pushed as a hard and fast rule is that "Lockdown" means exactly that. The incubator is closed on Day 18, and is not opened after that FOR ANY...

Yes, and it's a lot harder when you have the eggs confined in one position like that. Think chicken nest . . . lay the eggs on their sides and let the chicks move around as they hatch out. They'll thank you for it.

This has got to be one of the more irresponsible posts on this forum. (I sure hope it is!) You have no reason in the world to blame your heat lamp bulb for the death of your chickens. And shame on all you other folks who jumped on this runaway bandwagon and start panicking about your bulbs. The...