any keets yet..? 2012 hatching thread anyone?

I love the pictures of the chickens with the keets! Right now I have a banty hen outside with 5 keets. We also have the bator going with keets hatching as I sit here. I've got a sad story about the eggs in the bator, though. We had 2 guinea hens sitting on a nest. It was about 10:30 pm last Tuesday night. We noticed that one of the girls was off the nest. We knew that there was something seriously wrong if she's wandering around in the dark. We locked her in the coop and checked the nest. We believe the other guinea was taken by a coyote.
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We found a ton of eggs and one broken egg with a 3/4 developed keet (dead of course). Some of the eggs were still warm so I told DH to fire up the bator. We candled and put anything that had more than a weeks worth of development in the bator. I was floored at the total count in our tiny bator....29 eggs! The first keets started hatching last night. As of right now we have 10 keets! 4 more have pipped. I think they'll hatch slowly over the next week. I'll post pics as soon as I get them off my phone!
 
I finally got some pictures off my phone. As of the time I left for work this morning we had 14 babies. 10 are in the brooder (kiddie pool in the guest bedroom!) and 4 are still drying in the bator. We still have 15 eggs that have yet to hatch. Some have pipped, so we'll see what we end up with.

Tuesday night we were lucky enough to be watching the babies and all of a sudden a head popped out of an egg! We couldn't have had better timing. We have sat and tried to watch babies hatch before and haven't had good luck. It's always exciting. I had good timing this morning and got to watch one hatch, too. Thank goodness for camera phones!

It looks like so far in the brooder we have 8 pearl gray pied and 2 lavenders. (If I'm wrong someone let me know!)

Just the head


Getting some encouragement


10 babies in the brooder


Keet hatching 5/24/12
 
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So many colors...I can't wait until mine hatch next week. It feels like Christmas a little bit since i'm not entirely certain what colors will come out. When I hatched my buff orpingtons, we all knew what they would look like. These guineas will definitely be interesting.
 
LOL it is exactly like Christmas, every hatch. I've slowed down on my hatching this year (lol only 325 so far!) but last year I had colorful batches of keets hatching every 4-5 days
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