hillbillywelder
Hatching
- Jun 6, 2020
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Hello all. I've been "browsing" through the forum for a long time, and finally decided to join as I'm new to incubating eggs, and these guineas are giving me a run for my money.
Here is the back story. My wife and I have a mixed flock of about 4 dozen birds. (Chickens, ducks and guineas). We also raise broilers in our pasture in a tractor. The broilers are getting processed in a few days and I was hoping to raise a bunch of Guineas to butcher in the fall of this year. I have a new Hovabator 2370 forced air incubator. I set 40 guinea eggs in it about 2 months ago. Temp was 99.5 and humidity was around 50%. I candled the eggs and only had 7 that were fertile and growing. Luckily, all 7 hatched out. I am hoping to get 20-30 Guineas to raise. I borrowed a friends Still air incubator and I literally cooked 2 batches of eggs due to a faulty thermometer. (I just figured this out this week, when I cross referenced to another thermometer. The one I was using was about 5 deg cold. (When I had the still air incubator at 101-102, it was probably at 105-106. That leaves me to my 4th batch in my incubator. I candled all 42 on day 10 and not a single one is growing. We have 10 females and 2 males. We see them mating. I eat Guinea eggs for breakfast and I can see what I believe is the bullseye on some of the yolks. They were on a 18% layer crumble from a local mill, but just this week we started to transition to a 16% non Gmo crumble from another mill that supplies our broiler feed.
Here is the back story. My wife and I have a mixed flock of about 4 dozen birds. (Chickens, ducks and guineas). We also raise broilers in our pasture in a tractor. The broilers are getting processed in a few days and I was hoping to raise a bunch of Guineas to butcher in the fall of this year. I have a new Hovabator 2370 forced air incubator. I set 40 guinea eggs in it about 2 months ago. Temp was 99.5 and humidity was around 50%. I candled the eggs and only had 7 that were fertile and growing. Luckily, all 7 hatched out. I am hoping to get 20-30 Guineas to raise. I borrowed a friends Still air incubator and I literally cooked 2 batches of eggs due to a faulty thermometer. (I just figured this out this week, when I cross referenced to another thermometer. The one I was using was about 5 deg cold. (When I had the still air incubator at 101-102, it was probably at 105-106. That leaves me to my 4th batch in my incubator. I candled all 42 on day 10 and not a single one is growing. We have 10 females and 2 males. We see them mating. I eat Guinea eggs for breakfast and I can see what I believe is the bullseye on some of the yolks. They were on a 18% layer crumble from a local mill, but just this week we started to transition to a 16% non Gmo crumble from another mill that supplies our broiler feed.
