NuggetNoob
Chirping
- May 1, 2021
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So I have a batch of chicken eggs in our incubator (I turn by hand 5x a day so no automatic turner). The day after I started them my farmer neighbor handed grandma a carton of guinea eggs... The hen sitting on them had been taken the night before by a fox. She had nobody else broody and knew we had been wanting some guineas/ had an incubator so brought them over and said it would probably be fine to just stick them in alongside the chicken eggs and see what happens. She doesn’t know how long the hen had already sat on them. So I stuck them in there. They are all showing life after candling so I assume they are developing just fine. My only concern is when it comes time to lockdown my chicken eggs (the priority) and I have no idea when to stop turning the guineas. I know they incubate longer but have no idea when they were “started” is it okay to lock them down and increase the humidity early? Or should I just keep turning them until my chicken eggs start pipping then lockdown? After reading into it I’ve found you’re not supposed to incubate both at the same time but that’s hindsight. I don’t want to jeopardize the chicken eggs, it’s a very special batch with eggs from the children’s dearly departed favorite hen and maran eggs that were really hard to track down around here. Any suggestions would be helpful, thank you!