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incubating question; I know guinea eggs take 28 days, but what day do you put them into lockdown and raise the humidity? I have some in the bator, day 14 coming up, and wondered what day to lock down? This is my first time trying to hatch guineas
I put my guinea eggs into lockdown on day 25 just the same as I do for turkeys. Because guineas can hatch from day 26 to 28 normally, some people put them into lockdown on day 23. Others that do a lot of candling don't move any eggs to lockdown until they see an internal pip.
My current batch of guinea egg contains both shipped eggs and my own eggs. Apparently the shipped eggs got an early start during the shipping. When I went to move them to the hatcher one of the shipped eggs had already hatched on day 25 and three more eggs were externally pipped and all the rest were internally pipped.
My eggs have their first external pip today which is day 26 and most of them were internally pipped when I moved them to lockdown.
Good luck.
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Number 1 tip, use a strong light. The one that I currently use is listed as 3000 lumens by the manufacturer. With a freshly charged battery it easily illuminates the inside of of Welsummer and blue eggs.
Candle from the large end of the egg.
Read @Sally Sunshine Hatching Eggs 101 paying particular attention to the section on candling. Here are the candling links suggested in her guide.
http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/Avian/pfs32.htm
http://www.metzerfarms.com/Candling.cfm
http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=73884.0
http://shilala.homestead.com/candling.html
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...g-candling-pics-progression-though-incubation
Beginning of an internal pip.
Good luck.