Guinea eggs under a chicken after being in a bator??

[denasfarm]

We had a lot of storms yesterday and the power went out and I was afraid everything in the bator would die as time ticked on so I put my guinea eggs under a broody hen. Not sure if they will survive the transition. They were sitting upright in the bator and now laying sideways under a hen. My plan was to put them back in the bator BUT the Bator died...must have been a surge so I left them under the hen.
Whats my chance of this working? They sat in bator about 4 hours before I moved them.

 

[PeepsCA]

I think they will be ok, 4 hours isn't terribly too long, as long as they did not go completely cold... Do you know what the temp was in the 'bator when you moved them? And how far along are they into the incubation period? You can candle a few of the eggs in a few days and look for movement, if you see movement in them they should be ok... maybe just a day behind for the hatching date if anything.

Being on their sides shouldn't matter, and the Hen should turn the eggs as she feels it is needed.

Good luck, hope the eggs are fine. Sorry to hear about your bator...

 

[denasfarm]

They went in on the 15th so 12 days along...and they were pretty chilly.

I didnt have anywhere to put my 20 chicken eggs so they all died...

Hubby says I can get another one soon.

He knows I am sad.
I can get plenty more chicken eggs from my flock but I JUST traded turkey eggs for the guinea eggs so I cant make more of those!!
Its a one shot deal...

 

[denasfarm]

I candled a few of the eggs and they look Live! Should hatch around the 12th unless the chill delays them.
Now...I have another question. Can an american game hen raise the keets or do I need to take them?

 

[chloebetsychicks]

I also have similar questions. Last year my guineas hatched their own eggs but this year one of my Ameraucana chickens has decided to go broody on a nest of about 20 guinea eggs that have been laid inside the coop near the nesting box. I found the guinea hen kinda staring at her while the chicken sat there on her nest. Its kindof a drag because I have to fish the chicken eggs out of the guinea egg nest because they aren't going to hatch! I'm a little perplexed about this and don't quite know what is going on. Once they hatch I will take then inside and raise them to sell. They will just get eaten or pecked or die in the grass otherwise. Last year we had about 40 hatch from just 2 hens but this year one of the hens and her eggs were eaten.

 

[PeepsCA]

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I don't have chickens, but a friend of mine lets his game hens brood and raise all of his keets. I don't know which kind of game hens they are, just that they are game hens and they are excellent mommas to the keets.

 

[geepy]

I have a favorite banty hen that has raised all my guinea keets. Sadly I'm out of the guinea's because the neighbors never got used t the noise. But, to answer your question a hen can raise guinea keets.

 

[denasfarm]

They are all doing well..more pics on another post about chickens and keets.