guinea keet hatched early

[kimt816]

ok had a surprise in the incubator this am i was checking on a batch of americaunas that have been hatching and in my guinea incubator i had a keet sitting on the turner. they are only at day 25?? he/she was alert and active so i took it out and stuck it in the brooder i removed the turner and set rest of eggs in bator with increased humidity. has anyone ever had keets hatch early?

 

[PeepsCA]

Yes, I've had lots of early hatching keets. Day 24 is very common for my hatches, even had one hatch on day 23 before.

I incubate in Hovabator Genesis 1588s, what kind of incubator are you using?

 

[kimt816]

a little giant still air i have had good results so far on my standard birds with these as i only hatch about once maybe twice a year

 

[bigdawg]

my last hatch started on day 24 and still hatching today on day 30.

 

[PeepsCA]

What kind of incubator are you using bigdawg? And did ya use an egg turner?

 

[chickenguru]

I have 61 guinea eggs in the bator now that were supposed to start hatching on
May 28. They started hatching today which is day 24. I have several out already
and lots more pipped.

 

[shelleyd2008]

I wouldn't consider day 25 as being early; my guinea hatches are usually 'done' after day 27. Most all of them hatch on day 25.

ETA: My guineas are not early, that's just when they hatch. I hatch them with several other species and the guineas are the only ones that hatch 'early'.

 

[kimt816]

update on guineas
two out so far several more pipped so we shall see glad to see that they do this LOL kinda caught me off guard as i still had the turner in the box the first little one was taking a ride back and forth lol

 

[skya328]

We started our guineas out in a homemade incubator w/ egg turner then split the eggs between 2 broody hens around day 6. Today is day 23 and we woke up this morning to FIVE keets! They had to have hatched last night because at 7 am when I noticed them they were all dry and fuzzy. One hen had 4 hatched, 1 pipped, and 3 not pipped and the other hen had 1 hatched and 6 more eggs. We double checked the calendar and couldn't believe they hatched that early.

Kim, how did your hatch turn out?

 

[BAMACK2]

for me day 25 most of them hatched than i got 2 or 3 every day after up to day 29 which is today. i just heard a pip as i was removing hatch shells and was like wow so i am giving them to day 30 before i say they are done and starting the clean up and refill