Broody Guineas???

[caral07]

Is there any particular breeds of guineas that are bad broody? I have a pearl and some slate hens with there pearl boys.

 

[zazouse]

I have royal purple, lavender ,lavender pied, pearl, pearl pied,white and My breed the" pearly whites" and they all have gone broody.

 

[sonjab314]

If my understanding is correct, they go broody but make poor mothers. I have 2 but they have not laid yet. I got them last summer.

 

[zazouse]

They are not bad mothers,they will protect the keets at any cost , it's just where they originate there is not alot of morning dew ,which is the first thing that can kill them.
They fall prey to snakes around my place if i do not keep them penned till they are bigger.

I have 100's of free range guineas so i spend the entire egg laying season hunting and collecting eggs for my big hatchers,so unless i miss finding a nest all my keets are penned straight after hatch and sold that week.

 

[cracking up]

Last year my guinea hatched out several batches and I always ended up taking them away. Once I followed one around picking up stragglers and putting them in a brooder. We went out for the evening and when we got home I looked in the usual setting places to see where she was with the keets. I finally found her with all of the adult guineas on a high perch. She craned her neck as if to say 'they're down there' and they were all in a ball in the corner of the coop. She was DONE! I picked them up and put them in the brooder with the others. They're good mothers but only for a few hours.