am i the only one still waiting on eggs?

[birdbrain5]

im in NC, it was real warm here for a week or two, now we're having a cold snap. my guineas are a year old now and i've seen the female going in the box for a week now but still no eggs!!! is anyone else close by still waiting?

 

[melroseladi]

I am in NE Florida and just got my first egg yesterday. My hen started looking for nesting spots a few weeks ago, while she was out free ranging, going under bushes, digging, sitting, both on my property and my neighbors. I have penned her up and yesterday moved her and my 2 males into the dog run to give them more room. I gave her a nesting box with a piece of plywood angled over it. She dropped her egg on the ground, in the dirt, in the middle of the pen. I put it in the nesting box and hopefully she will catch on. She was hatched last spring so about a year old, and I was starting to worry if she would lay or not. They were given to me a few weeks back so I didn't get to raise them and I am still very much learning their personalities.

 

[StoneyRidgeFarm]

I haven't found eggs in Texas yet. Last year they made a nest in the coop and made it easy on me I hope they do the same thing this year

 

[sben451]

I'm in Alabama and my guineas are 8 mos. old. Will they lay eggs this spring or are they not old enough??

 

[allanimals21]

I'm in MN and mine usually don't start laying until june or so. They seem to like really warm to hot weather to lay here. I've had some sit until october though too

 

[zazouse]

Some of Mine have been laying for a month and some are just starting.

 

[Cattitude]

I'm in the northeastern part of West Tennessee, and our guinea hens have been laying for about a month. We should have some out of the incubator this coming weekend, then about two weeks after that, then two weeks after that.

Some lay in the nest, some lay in the barn, some lay in the yard, some lay out on open ground. You just can't tell where they're going to lay.

The guinea hens we hatched last year have been laying, also. Guineas are such fickle critters, though. They don't do anything on *our* time schedule, for certain!

 

[flgardengirl]

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I am also in NE FL and I just got my first guinea egg yesterday. Today there was another one. I found them in thier coop. I think I have 3 females and 2 males. I got mine early last summer.

 

[birdbrain5]

i just found out someone in the next town has guineas the same age as mine already laying!

lets go guineas!!!

 

[PeepsCA]

Hi, I'm new to this forum, but not new to Guineas (or other forums). Figured I'd add in my 2 cents on this topic...

If you are letting your Guineas out to free range every morning, chances are that they may have already started laying outside somewhere, which is what most Guineas (if given the choice) will prefer. Not many people I know that own Guineas are lucky enough to have their Guinea Hens lay eggs in the coop or covered run. Mine do, but I keep my main breeding flock in until they lay their eggs, then I let them out to free range in the after noons. Have you looked around your property (and even the neighbor's property!) for outdoor nests, or even randomly dropped eggs?

Hopefully you have already switched your flock over to a good quality Layer feed as their main diet, and that they have free choice access to oyster shell? If not, that may help with egg production. Also leafy greens like fresh spinach and romaine lettuce help add some extra vitamins and minerals, if your birds are not out free ranging for their own greens yet. Also if their coop or run does not get much light, that may be what's delaying their egg laying too...

I'm in Northern California, and have been collecting and incubating eggs from 2 separate flocks since the first week in January. Lucky for me, cold rainy weather does not slow my Hens down much. As of this evening, my hatch count is up to 82 keets so far with another 16 eggs pipping in the hatcher, and I have 3 full incubators humming away

Hope you get some eggs soon!