ginuea ?

[only one lay]

It is about a year old

I started getting another egg of odd shape. If a girl could she have just started laying at this age?

 

[embkm]

A guinea egg is shaped different than a chicken egg. I was worried about telling the difference until we found our first one. And yes, she could jsut now be laying her first egg. I was told they only lay seasonally in the spring. Of course, I could be wrong... I don't know as much about guineas as I should. Never planned on getting her, but my 4yo DD had to have her.

 

[froggie71]

That is a pearl gray guinea. They do start laying in the spring. Ours were born in July and just started laying. They do lay in cycles spring, summer and i think in early fall. The egg is sort of long, skinny and speckled orange.

Our first guinea egg

edited for spelling error

 

[Marlinchaser]

Try to crack that egg, if you think your gonna break the counter your cracking it on, it is a guinea egg. Should be pointier than regular egg too.

 

[only one lay]

Thank you all very much.

 

[hippie]

that looks like a male to me. every year i forget what a guinea egg looks like but it is unmistakeable. if you drop it on the concrete and it doesn't break, it a guinea egg.

 

[warcard]

My girls can get big wattles like only-one-lay's, I only guarantee a girl if I have heard the two-tone "buck-wheat" call out of her.

Yeah, if you gotta really whack the egg to break it, it is a guinea egg. They are also more "pyramidal" instead of "ovally" (okay neither one of those is probably a real word but they are descriptive

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