egg weight?

[My2butterflies]

That’s a big guinea egg, isn’t it???

Not for my guineas. Those two are a good representation of the sizes I get daily.
This was a big egg. One of the biggest I’ve ever had. I never thought to weigh it. It was a double yoker.

My guineas are jumbos, so I guess that means they lay jumbo eggs by guinea standards

 

[Sydney65]

Wait a second...are those french guinea eggs? You've got some pretty big grays....

 

[Sydney65]

On the shoulder, in the hair, and asleep. If I did this w/theView attachment 2300145
This one may have broke through Himself's indifference toward guineas this evening when she perched on his shoulder while I cleaned out the brooder. I started to take her back and he actually stopped me.
We'll know for sure if he starts building a guinea castle for her...

 

[My2butterflies]

Wait a second...are those french guinea eggs? You've got some pretty big grays....

French or jumbo. I really don’t know how I’d tell the difference. Mine can reproduce naturally, and I think French ones have a harder time if I remember right. But I honestly have no clue what I’ve got. Lol
If I remember the next time I go to the store I got them from I’ll ask if they know what the hatchery sends.

 

[Sydney65]

French or jumbo. I really don’t know how I’d tell the difference. Mine can reproduce naturally, and I think French ones have a harder time if I remember right. But I honestly have no clue what I’ve got. Lol
f I remember the next time I go to the store I got them from I’ll ask if they know what the hatchery sends.

https://www.mailorderpoultry.com/di...ench guineas,“Jumbo” are used interchangeably.

I have those as well, but the eggs in the oven aren't jumbos. I *think* regular guineas lay slightly smaller eggs. -atleast, I hope so! Lol

 

[My2butterflies]

https://www.mailorderpoultry.com/differences-jumbo-guinea-fowl-french-guinea-fowl/#:~:text=Jumbo guineas and French guineas,“Jumbo” are used interchangeably.

I have those as well, but the eggs in the oven aren't jumbos. I *think* regular guineas lay slightly smaller eggs. -atleast, I hope so! Lol

Thank you for that! It seems whatever article I read was going off the “myths” about the French/jumbo strains.
Although, my guineas don’t fly. So there maybe some truth to that part.... unless mine are just weirdos. Haha.
Im very interested in seeing the difference first hand next year when my regular guineas go through their first breeding season. I’ll try and hatch guineas from both at the same time to get a side by side comparison.

I hope your eggs do well! Please keep us posted on how it goes!

 

[Sydney65]

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Mine are from Hoover Hatchery (TSC), which tags them as French. None of mine, french or otherwise, opt to fly beyond going up to reach the roof. Something spooked them once and they soared over the house, then immediately landed. So atleast with mine, it's a matter of preference over ability.
I'm a novice at all of this, but I raised 3 french with 2 RP and a Lav.,who have just entered their 2nd yr. Even though they were raised together,same conditions, treatment and handling, they remained far more skittish than the others and preferred to be left alone where as the others demand their share of attention, being talked to, petted, sitting with me and hand fed. The french wld still eat from my hand. But it's more peck & run.
2 of them were the hens that kept leading my males away to nest, so the remaining hen no longer gets to free range. She's decided, I guess, to warm up to me since she's no longer allowed to roam. So now she will stand next to me to gnaw on her celery and tolerate being petted and picked up. I'll have to have Himself help me video her sometime;she gets so excited when it's popsicle (celery) time, if I'm not fast enough to suit her, she'll jump up to get a bite of celery, land, jump, bite, land..it's comical. The cock cont. to peck and run.

 

[My2butterflies]

Mine are from Hoover Hatchery (TSC), which tags them as French. None of mine, french or otherwise, opt to fly beyond going up to reach the roof. Something spooked them once and they soared over the house, then immediately landed. So atleast with mine, it's a matter of preference over ability.
I'm a novice at all of this, but I raised 3 french with 2 RP and a Lav.,who have just entered their 2nd yr. Even though they were raised together,same conditions, treatment and handling, they remained far more skittish than the others and preferred to be left alone where as the others demand their share of attention, being talked to, petted, sitting with me and hand fed. The french wld still eat from my hand. But it's more peck & run.
2 of them were the hens that kept leading my males away to nest, so the remaining hen no longer gets to free range. She's decided, I guess, to warm up to me since she's no longer allowed to roam. So now she will stand next to me to gnaw on her celery and tolerate being petted and picked up. I'll have to have Himself help me video her sometime;she gets so excited when it's popsicle (celery) time, if I'm not fast enough to suit her, she'll jump up to get a bite of celery, land, jump, bite, land..it's comical. The cock cont. to peck and run.
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Hoovers are French? I know that’s who the store orders their chicks from. They gave me a flyer back in the spring when I asked about when they place orders for the year. I didn’t think they sold French guineas and that’s why I was going to ask if they order from more then one hatchery. But I guess that answers that.

It amazes me how tame your guineas are. Mine really only let me be a couple feet from them. The only time we get to “pet” them is if they take their time going in the coop we boop their tails. Even Tiny the guinea recovering from her leg injury hates me being around. She still fluffs up and hisses at me while I’m caring for her. I’ve been able to pick her up and she is nice enough to not peck me. So I appreciate that. Haha.
Here she is being a good girl when I weighed her.

 

[R2elk]

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[My2butterflies]

Oops. Sorry! I had no idea.