Chicken and guinea eggs at same time, 1 'bator

[dancingbear]

I have both, that needed to be set now, or risk losing one of them. What if I keep the humidity around 45-50 through entire incubation, up to around 60 for the chicks to hatch, back down to what, 40, maybe, until day 25, back up to around 55-60 for last 3 days on the guineas?

The chicken eggs are shipped Dorking eggs, the guineas are from my own birds. I also added 3 EE eggs from my own birds. The shipped eggs are in pretty good shape, 1 ruptured air cell, a few normal, several somewhat "amoeba'd" air cells, but not severe. No cracks. None looked scrambled, yolk shadows pretty distinct. So I feel like they have a good chance of hatching.

Anybody with experience in this sort of thing, I'd like to hear what your results have been.

I have an LG w/fan, & auto turner. Temp is hovering between 99.5F-100.5F.

 

[DulcyDoll]

I hatched chicks and keets same time last year, it worked out great. I kept the humidity at 40% throughout the hatch. Chicks of course hatched first, no problem and keets hatched later fine. Ididnt raise the humidity for the chicks and all 3 hatched no problems, and I raised it for the guineas to about 55-60%.

Good Luck!

 

[dancingbear]

Thank you! I'll try that, then. I don't want to drown my guineas hatching the chicks, but I don't want to shrink wrap the chicks, either.