Emergency...leftover eggs are peeping! UPDATE, FOUR OUT, NEW PICS!

[ChickenTiff]

the bra comment was completely a joke,,,no worries

 

[BirdMom]

Congratulations! Good job on your makeshift hatcher.

What a cutie!

 

[AkTomboy]

how cool!

 

[Sharons7]

so, would these be bra orphantons??


sorry.

 

[damselfish]

Well, the morning update is that we still have just one, and no peeps from anyone else. I have moved her out to a brooder because she's all dried out. Please everyone, hope for a bunch of siblings for her as I have no idea what to do with a lone guinea that mama won't take.

 

[sred98]

Are you sure the guinea won't accept it?? I moved my lone surviving baby in with the 2 4 month old guineas, so they had no maternal instinct, and they immediately accepted it and helped it find food, protected it from the other chickens, etc. Of course, guineas are unpredictable, but you might try it.

Otherwise, my suggestion is to get more guineas!!!

more baby hatching vibes!!!

 

[damselfish]

Thanks sred, maybe I will try some other guineas. We only tried to give it back to its nest-mama.

Meanwhile, we actually do have at least one more pipped, and I think maybe more than that, but I refuse to look under the towel (that's why I'm in here typing, so I won't be in there poking!).

I hear cheeping....

 

[sred98]

Ooooooooooh!!!!!!!!!!!!

Shelly

 

[damselfish]

Woo-hoo, here is the morning update! After worrying all day yesterday because the cracked eggs were taking so long to do anything, I woke up this morning to peeping (well, actually, I woke up again, since I'd been up several times in the night to check them).

At 3:55 AM, there was a whole lot of nothing, but by the time I woke up again at 5:50, we had three new keets!

We also have an additional new egg cracked, and four others that I haven't seen a crack in yet.

Thank you all for the advice, this is working out better than I ever dreamed it might.

And here are the pics...

Keet number one all lonely last night with just a bear for company:

Everyone in a happy pile this morning right after I added the new keets:

Bonus pic, here are their three siblings, the lucky early hatchers, running around with mom. It's great to watch, they have a guinea honor guard of six guineas total. Nothing is getting those keets without going through their bodyguards first.

 

[cassey40]

awwwwww how cute