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Need some help, a friend who lives off grid has been gifted a dozen guinea eggs. She needs them hatched, can't run a incubator off her solar system, so they are coming to me today, I have 2 incubators both forced air and auto turn.. my challenge at the moment is my big incubator (24 ct.) is tied up till the 24th or so, my little one if I want to use the auto turn isn't going to hold more than 6, so it's going to have to be hand turn.. it's a Janoel 12. I've read some on hatching, here as a matter of fact in BYC. They are saying turn 180 degrees, clockwise and counter clockwise.. then end over end with pointy side down on one turn. Are they meaning having them propped up? anyone raise guinea's?
 
starri33 said:
Need some help, a friend who lives off grid has been gifted a dozen guinea eggs. She needs them hatched, can't run a incubator off her solar system, so they are coming to me today, I have 2 incubators both forced air and auto turn.. my challenge at the moment is my big incubator (24 ct.) is tied up till the 24th or so, my little one if I want to use the auto turn isn't going to hold more than 6, so it's going to have to be hand turn.. it's a Janoel 12. I've read some on hatching, here as a matter of fact in BYC. They are saying turn 180 degrees, clockwise and counter clockwise.. then end over end with pointy side down on one turn. Are they meaning having them propped up? anyone raise guinea's?
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Sorry, I've never tried to hatch any of those before, so I can't help you with that. Have you tried asking over in the hatching section here?
 
starri33 said:
Watching my little monsters, I always thought that was the only way they'd eat it..lol. How they manage to sling it out of the feeder I don't know.
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lol, yes. I have their feeder in a Frisbee to catch a lot of the feed they dump out, before this, the floor was covered in feed they refused to eat.
 
starri33 said:
Going to have to look at doing that, the monsters make a serious mess, I buy my starter by the 50 lb bag..lol. that way I make sure I have feed on hand.
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I use a galvanized feeder. It has a wide chimney to fill from the top and a narrow tray. They can't wade in to kick everything out. Sometimes one will get inside to eat though :gig
 
igorsMistress said:
I use a galvanized feeder. It has a wide chimney to fill from the top and a narrow tray. They can't wade in to kick everything out. Sometimes one will get inside to eat though :gig
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I have the standard chick feeder, the one with the holes, they still manage to get in there and scratch out the feed, they are funny to watch.. or they will peck and sling it that way.. my hens I've started letting them clean up their mess.
 
Well, time for musical incubators, my little one got at least a 24 hour break, it's been fired up and now has 12 guinea eggs in it, I've put two more in the big one, got to figure out how I am going to put that one on lock down with the two new eggs in there. lol I'm thinking that the turn trays that are there come out one at a time, if they do, I can leave one in and take the others out so that the two new one's are turning and the others aren't. We'll see, otherwise I am looking at taking the turner in the little one out and hand turning for the next 25 days.
 

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