BYC Guinea hen club

[margaret8]

My guineas are a year old and all I got was an egg about every week for a month totalling fifteen all summer. I have four females and a male in a pen that doesn't get a lot of sun. Is that why they aren't laying. Someone said they are supposed to lay about an egg a day in the summer. I just thought guineas laid once in a while when the weather's the hottest.

I have 4 hens and lots of eggs when I find their nest they lay in their pen and when they free range. They prefer to free range. They can turn their egg laying off when I don 't let them out. I started out with 15 guineas I now have 36! I have an incubator.

 

[Star2014]

I can completely agree that BYC needed a Guinea hen club! I love my guineas. We are having a female being broody and we moved her for her safety. So she is laying again.

 

[kenzier093]

Do guineas lay in the fall? I am new to them and I am still learning about them.

 

[margaret8]

When she is ready to start sitting on her clutch it will look something like this .... This give you some idea of what you are in for ???????

Did your eggs hatch?

 

[gander007]

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Well most of them developed but did not peep at all and when I opened them I found they had sucked up all the yoke so they were ready but just did not finish or start to hatch ......

 

[margaret8]

Well most of them developed but did not peep at all and when I opened them I found they had sucked up all the yoke so they were ready but just did not finish or start to hatch ......

Mine did that this year. I opened them up with a little hole so they could breath. I candled them first to see where the air pocket was. If there was any blood I put them back in the bator. I only lost one.

 

[casportpony]

Hi everyone, I don't usually post anything here, but thought maybe I should since I have two hens in a dog crate on about 40 eggs, lol. Haven't candled them yet, so I have no idea if they good or when they might hatch.

-Kathy

 

[margaret8]

Hi everyone, I don't usually post anything here, but thought maybe I should since I have two hens in a dog crate on about 40 eggs, lol. Haven't candled them yet, so I have no idea if they good or when they might hatch.

-Kathy

Welcome to my world!

Here we go again! I had a guinea hen setting on about 30 eggs. She hatched 2 and quit the nest. I now have about 40 eggs in the bator with 3 in the hatcher. 15 have already hatched!i now have 45 guineas with more coming!

 

[kenzier093]

Welcome to my world!

Here we go again! I had a guinea hen setting on about 30 eggs. She hatched 2 and quit the nest. I now have about 40 eggs in the bator with 3 in the hatcher. 15 have already hatched!i now have 45 guineas with more coming!

What are you going to do with them all!? And here I thought 12 was too many to handle

 

[margaret8]

What are you going to do with them all!? And here I thought 12 was too many to handle 

I have 46 now with about 30 in the bator and 3 in the hatchery. I do not expect all of them to hatch. I 'll probably have about 55-60 when it's all said and done. I'll probably sell some of them. The rest I'll keep. They are habit forming!