I have six guinea eggs and nine chicken eggs in my incubator and today is day five. I candled all the guinea eggs and a few of the chicken eggs. All the chicken eggs I looked at look good. Veining showed on all the ones I candled. Those are collected daily and I know they are fertile so no surprises there.
The guinea eggs, on the other hand, were found in a shallow nest in one of our pastures. Our guineas are fully free-ranged and roost in a tree at night. They don't lay in our nest boxes and these were the first ones we have found (though my kids stumbled across another five today that are going to be fed to the dogs), so I have no idea how long they were sitting in the grass. I figured I would put them in the 'bator just to see if they will hatch. I did crack one to check if it was fertile and it was. None of the ones in the incubator show any veining yet. How long should I leave them in before giving up and tossing them?
The guinea eggs, on the other hand, were found in a shallow nest in one of our pastures. Our guineas are fully free-ranged and roost in a tree at night. They don't lay in our nest boxes and these were the first ones we have found (though my kids stumbled across another five today that are going to be fed to the dogs), so I have no idea how long they were sitting in the grass. I figured I would put them in the 'bator just to see if they will hatch. I did crack one to check if it was fertile and it was. None of the ones in the incubator show any veining yet. How long should I leave them in before giving up and tossing them?
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