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Well the experiment didn’t go exactly as planned but everything worked out in the end. The hen I initially placed eggs with, abandoned the nest after a couple days. (Actually she got lost and went back to the wrong nest after getting down to eat.) So we placed all the eggs back under the guinea...

Yesterday, after I had already decided to try this, I had 2 people volunteer to incubate the eggs in their big cabinet incubators. If Gertrude keeps laying and the nesting box gets too crowded, I may take them up on the offer and try a dozen or so that way. Maybe the whole clutch and then my...

My dogs usually find the nests that are in the woods. When they bring a guinea egg to the front porch I know it’s time to go hunting. I either follow the guineas or the hounds back to the nest. I’ve read guinea hens are bad about running off and forgetting the keets behind by accident. We...

I’ve had good success (so far this year) in moving chicken hens and their eggs to my large brooder the day before hatching is due. We take the hen and her eggs and stick them all in a box after she is asleep. The next morning she wakes up in the brooder. I keep them all in their until it’s...

Gertrude the Guinea started laying her eggs for the Spring on April 8. Since “rescuing” her and her mate, Gary, two years ago, she has had nothing but bad luck trying to hatch out keets. Hopefully, this year will be different. Her first attempt in the fall of 2016 was in some DEEP underbrush on...