Chicken hatched Guinea Eggs (ANOTHER UPDATE & PICS-POST #36)

[TarheelBirdy]

What color are the silverish looking ones in your pic? I just hatched one that color.

 

[denasfarm]

Pretty little babies! They are much more zippy than chicken chicks! They will be up and running in the mornin!
Congrats!

 

[PeepsCA]

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They look like lavenders to me

 

[PeepsCA]

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Cute Cute Cute!
LOL @ the lil guy on his back kickin' back!
Congrats

 

[PeepsCA]

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That's great she was happy to have them back!

What a good Momma!
Love the pics!

 

[kuntrygirl]

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This is good information. I will know next time. Thanks for the info.

 

[kuntrygirl]

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They look like lavenders to me

I agree.

 

[kuntrygirl]

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Cute Cute Cute!
LOL @ the lil guy on his back kickin' back!
Congrats

LOL @ I thought the same thing. I thought it was just my imagination that he was on his back looking at the camera.

 

[kuntrygirl]

Here are a couple of pics 1 week after the keets were born. Mama and babies are doing fine. 14 out of the 15 eggs hatched. 3 of the 11 babies were born 1 day later. They were a lot smaller than the first keets that were hatched. It took them a few days before they started eating but they finally ate.

 

[denasfarm]

Sad Update...Guinea mama chicken gave her life today to save the keets and her chick. We are not sure what took her. Three of us were in the yard and saw the keets flying towards the pen. I commented on it. A few minutes later a realized they were all screaming so I run see whats up. I find all eight keets and the one chick but no mama. I run the babies into the pen and head out to find where mama bird went.
I could not find any sign, no feathers, blood or anything just gone. We searched the woods, crossed the road, looked for dogs etc...
I have an 80 lb Bulldog that is my bird guardian. She was within 3 feet of them when it happened and never even woofed. She alerts and defends against anything except... sky danger...so it had to have been a hawk, vulture or similar.

Poor babies screamed for hours. Sad to not be able to console them. I added 3 older cochin bantam chicks to the group in hopes it would help.
They had no idea how to go to bed on their own so I had to manually catch and crate each one.

I hope tomorrow is better for them. They will not be free again until they are 6 months without a mama.

Please remember my brave mama hen....We simply called her guinea mama.

Thanks
Dena