25 Guinea Eggs in the Bator - Final Photos - 8 hatched

[greyfields]

Hey you have to justify the cost of the incubator, right?

 

[Cats Critters]

another kind of animal I want!

Good luck on the hatch MissPrissy

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I bet you won't be able to leave them alone

 

[gumpsgirl]

Exciting!!! Keep us posted on how they do please!

 

[MissPrissy]

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Ducks (not all but many), geese and guinea eggs are only available right now and some are coming to the close of the season. There won't be any more eggs in a few weeks to hatch. It is now or never until next spring. I prefer now. I plan to be eating these birds this winter. I don't hatch for pets or the thrill of it. We need these to feed out for our freezer. It may seem like a hatching frenzy but I haven't hatched a single egg since early last fall.

 

[wegotchickens]

Are guineas hard to hatch?
A guy I work with offered to give me a bunch of eggs to hatch for fun. He'd take any back that I couldn't keep (all). Our neighbors wouldn't like the noise.
And his never survive with the guinea hen brooding them. So it would be a win/win from his point of view since he'd like to have more and doesn't want to fool with hatching them... And I'd have to give them back at about the time he could add them to his farm safely!

 

[hcammack]

MissPrissy can I come for guinea dinner? how many eggs is that lets see 24+48+12= 85 eggs!!!! I bet there are more then that LOL.

Hope the all hatch so there can be a guinea in every pot.

Henry

 

[MissPrissy]

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This is my first time hatching them. We bought keats before. I am told just like chickens except they go 28 days or so.

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Yes, you can! 25 guineas + 34 orpingtons + 8 ducks = 67 - 5 clear duck, 4 clear blues, 4 clear buffs = 54 eggs. Not too many. this will wrap up my incubating until summer or fall when I might test some of my orp eggs from the pullets growing out now. I do have some geese and turkeys but no more chickens for a while.

 

[hcammack]

woops I miss calculated I will see if I can make it down there in the fall

 

[swampducks]

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Do guineas taste like chicken?

Actually, I'm serious. DH was wondering. I know duck doesn't. And I know any excess ducks are going to be heading to our freezer too.

 

[MissPrissy]

It is like chicken but I find it to be better when slow roasted. I roast with a generous rubbing of Mrs. Dash and lemon and garlic stuffed in the cavity.