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I'm done with the Marans hatching, but I still have some guinea eggs left that MIGHT be good, so I'm rejoining the hatch along for them. haven't decided how long to give them, but some passed their water float test yesterday, so I'm still hopeful. I have no idea when those eggs were laid.

Thanks for the info. the three remaining look good, but i think i'll go ahead and give the coccidiostat just in case.

I'm thinking on getting one of those next year before I start with a spring hatch. My DH thinks its too expensive so I'll probably use my birthday money to get one - our agreement is that our birthday money from my mother can be spent however we want. No discussions necessary. I'm thinking...

Thanks for that. I have another marans chick sick this morning. Can't walk, blood in the poop. Don't think he'll make it. Makes me think I'm not cut out for this hatching stuff because it makes me so sad when I lose them. My guineas have been so hardy that I think I'm spoiled. So I have...

Two of my marans chicks. Different colors. I have two of the darker ones and two of the more silver ones. Oh and one guinea. Pink pig was in there for the guinea while waiting for the others to hatch, but the marans seem to like it so its still there. I had a tragedy this morning. One of...

4 marans chicks hatched so far! Here are three plus the guinea from couple of days ago. One still in the incubator. Just hatched this morning. One more egg working on hatching and one not doing anything yet.

I would let it do its thing. They are pretty tough little birdies

My first marans to hatch! I have three more pipped. Two that haven't started anything yet. I think I'll get one more out before bed time.

Well, I really thought I was done with my unorthodox guinea hatch, but no. I had a baby out this morning peeping at me. So, I suppose I just keep going with these eggs and see what else pops out. Perhaps I'll have some marans chicks to join it sometime this weekend!

Lockdown day for my six marans eggs. One is rocking. Hope the others are good as well. I get stressed with this hatching..

You like the ecoglow warmers? I was considering one but the reviews on the website didn't look that good. I hate the heat lamps.

Last guinea update - total of 14 hatched and healthy. 3 more didn't make it: 1 died in the shell - couldn't get out - one died in the coop after hatching and one had neurological problems and had to go to chicken/guinea heaven. I still have one egg that seems to want to hatch, so I'm going to...

Guinea hatch experiment update. I have seven healthy keets. Thought I was done but last night two more hatched and greeted me this morning. An hour later there was another one and two more eggs pipped and cheeping. This is crazy! I have homes for all of them and need to get my brooder empty by...

Guinea update. I now have six keets. Antbite even seems to be just fine. I'm amazed at the resilience of these birds. I have three more in my makeshift hatcher that have pipped. We'll see if any of those come out tonight. The rest of the eggs are in my makeshift incubator. I'll check those in...

I now have four hatched. And four more pipped. About eight more eggs that looked like they might be good. That's a lot of birdies. We will see what makes it.

Here is Antbite. Poor thing has had a difficult morning. Didn't quite get all the yolk in but maybe will be okay. Also has some membrane stuck. Maybe that will dry off? And while I was typing this another one hatched! Seems okay. These are some tough birdies!

I was using my ipad app. sometimes i can get to a screen to add the pic and sometimes not. Hmmm..So now i'm on the computer and here is the little one from yesterday. Still living this morning. BUT...tragedy this morning in the coop. After letting the guineas and chickens out, I checked the...

I had a surprise guinea today. Was outside by the coop and I hear some cheeping and look down to find a baby running towards me. Hen nowhere to be found. So I scooped him up And put in the brooder. It's lonely. Put a pink pig in there but that's not very comforting. I'll post a pic when I can...

Update on my batch of guinea eggs. Culled what I thought were bad eggs out of the group today. I made only only mistake and opened a good one. Feel terrible but at least I know there are really some good ones that might hatch. All the other culls were either bad or just deposited. I wanted to...

Thanks for that link. The more I look at these marans sites I think my eggs are not " quality" marans. They aren't really that dark. Not much darker than my brown egg layers. I got them from a couple at church and really just want some nice chickens. So perhaps they won't have the harder shell...