42 guinea eggs in the incubator.

[NightHawk123]

Ah got it. Here is part of the hatch!

 

[NightHawk123]

 

[Kilsharion]

1 of 2 brooders full.

Oops having trouble uploading pic.

Hmm it says it's embedding the file but it doesn't do it. Using an Android phone.

I had that same problem earlier on my Samsung GIII. **grumbles** I wound up having to email it to myself and use my computer to actually embed the file.

 

[PeepsCA]

Congrats on your hatch! Cute babies, and nice brooder

They need some bedding tho! Paper towels or more shelf liner (or shelf liner over paper towels), even straw... just something to absorb the poop or they will have toes covered in rock hard poop within a day or so (that you will have to soak off).

If you don't already have one, you're also going to need a top of some sort for the brooder really soon... keets can fly by a week and half to 2 weeks old... then they will be all over the place, lol.

 

[NightHawk123]

Shelf liner is in! We washed it and let it dry while I took the pics. I have a larger brooder in the barn that has a covered top that they will go in to with in a week. That is if we have any left. Half are sold already.

 

[NightHawk123]

That brooder in the pic is actually a foldable shipping crate sold by Uline. I think that's the name of the company. It folds down to about 2 1/2 inches thick.


Pallet collars is what it's called. Sold by uline.

 

[Canieldonrad]

Well I have 12 eggs in a friend's incubator right now, due May 23. My father tells me yesterday he is ready to get 36 more eggs set. I told him he better not play with fire. When people say "don't count your eggs before they hatch" they surely mean that in both senses, low and HIGH. I don't what the hell we would do if we ended up with all 48 guineas.

 

[PeepsCA]

Well I have 12 eggs in a friend's incubator right now, due May 23. My father tells me yesterday he is ready to get 36 more eggs set. I told him he better not play with fire. When people say "don't count your eggs before they hatch" they surely mean that in both senses, low and HIGH. I don't what the hell we would do if we ended up with all 48 guineas.

You can put them on craigslist, sell them and make money to buy feed for the flock

 

[Canieldonrad]

Haha that is a good suggestion. I may try to persuade him into just taking what we get out of 12.

 

[NightHawk123]

We are selling ours on CL and FB. They go fast.