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

[OkapisRule]

Sounds good!

 

[swampducks]

Quote:
Geeze, maybe I should have bought more than 3!

Hal's favorite dinner is roast chicken. I'd better not mention how good guineas are until I decide whether or not I even like raising these birds! Still, it's all new to me (except the ducks, after one year, that's practically old hat) so I'd rather start small than be overwhelmed and frustrated. I've still got to figure out some proper housing for the 6 layers and 3 guineas in the 3 weeks I have before they arrive. Want those guineas not to wander away.

Time to go look at the coop pages yet again.

 

[Ace_king_brahma]

I love guineas though everyone around me doesn't get it. They always tell me they are noisy and butt ugly. Though I think the keets are some of the prettiest baby birds. I'm waiting on to see if Ideal gets them back in stock or I might send for one of those peacock/guinea packages from Strombergs.

 

[Ace_king_brahma]

Quote:
Easy to hatch. Before I stopped raising them a few years back I hatched their eggs out our hens eggs and I had high hatch rates. My hens did try to go broody a few times but ditched the nest after a week or two so I just put them in the incubator after this happened on a regular basis. LOL people around me are trying to talk me out of raising them again.

 

[jns_binford]

good luck with the guineas I have 30 in the bator now and all are doing well when candled

 

[MissPrissy]

I can't believe I forgot to update this thread!

candling report -

6 pearl developing well
6 lavander developing well

1 of my own giant pearl developing well!!!

12 more days to go.

 

[MissPrissy]

Early hatch! I went to take the eggs out of the turner and raise the humidity on the guinea eggs and imagine my surprise when I found this caught in the turner!

I hurried and took a look at the other eggs. They were dry as a bone! The humidity in the bator had been kept at about 40% the entire time. That is way too dry I think looking at the eggs that were pipped and zipped.

Here is a lavander

Another pearl

And this little baby from my very own guinea egg!! I had to help it out. It was stuck and dry.

9 more eggs in the bator and no other pips yet.

 

[theOEGBman]

Congrats!! Your Lav sure looks like a Pied Pearl to me,lol. They are adorable, I miss my guineas!

 

[MissPrissy]

All I know is the egg was marked lavander. I have never hatched keets and I don't have a clue what any of them look like at hatch except for the pearls. We'll have to see what it looks like when it gets dry.

 

[mangled]

Aw, how cute they are when they're little!! And tiny!!

I only have the one guinea that adopted us. I'm seriously thinking of adding a few more and only keeping the hens.

Congrats!
Em