Guinea talk.

[MartinsPoultry]

7/8 eggs hatched that developed.
Waiting on number 8 hatchling to come

 

[guinealeghorn]

I have a broody guinea hen and I am letting her have 4 guinea eggs and 1 leghorn egg. I was wondering if guineas will pick on the keets and if I need to separate the mom with keets from the rest of the flock. I haven't had a broody hatch eggs before and I want to be ready if they do hatch!

 

[R2elk]

I have a broody guinea hen and I am letting her have 4 guinea eggs and 1 leghorn egg. I was wondering if guineas will pick on the keets and if I need to separate the mom with keets from the rest of the flock. I haven't had a broody hatch eggs before and I want to be ready if they do hatch!

If you want the guinea eggs to hatch, remove the chicken egg. The chicken egg will hatch 5 to 7 days before the guinea eggs and will likely cause the hen to leave the nest before the guinea eggs hatch.

Good luck.

 

[guinealeghorn]

The chicken egg most likely isn't fertile, as I only have bantam roosters trying to mate with my full size hens. The chicken egg is more for a filler so she thinks her nest is bigger than it is. We ran out of golf balls in their outdoor nest!

 

[R2elk]

The chicken egg most likely isn't fertile, as I only have bantam roosters trying to mate with my full size hens. The chicken egg is more for a filler so she thinks her nest is bigger than it is. We ran out of golf balls in their outdoor nest!

Bantam roosters can definitely breed with leghorn hens.

 

[guinealeghorn]

I candled last night, and I don't think it is fertile. Thanks for the warning, though! I'll candle it again later and if it is fertile, remove it to incubate.

 

[GlennLee]

Oh, how wonderful @ MartinsPoultry - Christy & James! Very eggsciting! I'll be putting some in the incubator today. The two that I had in previously weren't fertile. It was good to practice with those before trying a larger batch. We have two nests in the barn - one is up to 22 eggs and the other must be over 30 by now. My hope is to get them to each lay on about 20 eggs and I'll incubate the others. Keep those cute pictures coming! Have fun watching the action!

 

[Jessie22]

hI, I HAVE 10 GUINEAS FULL GROWN. ONE IS SETTING ON 32 EGGS AND THE OTHER HAVEN'T FOUND HER NEST YET. I HAVE 6 EGGS IN THE INCUBATOR AND TODAY WAS SUPPOSE TO BE LOCK DOWN, ON CANDLING I NOTICED THAT THE EGGS ARE SLOW DEVELOPING BUT MOVING. WHY ARE THESE EGGS DEVELOPING SLOW. IT IS DAY 25 BUT NOT READY TO LOCKDOWN. THE EGGS ARE THE FIRST EGGS THAT THE GUINEAS LAID. MY GROWN GUINEAS, WERE FROM MY NEIGHBORS GUINEA WHO WAS HIT BY A CAR.

 

[MartinsPoultry]

Will do. We did some work today to get a dog kennel for a run and was given two orphan guinea keets. We mixed them in and they bonded with everyone.


One of my hatched babies has spladle legs what should i do?

 

[MartinsPoultry]

Here are the Guinea's. All 9 of them.
2 Orphaned and my 7 hatched. The last one to hatch has splayed legs, I put her/him in a container with an old sock to try and bring in their legs.
Our flock grew from 65 to a whopping 89 Birds and 6 Rabbits.
We will be doing a cockerel and Drake flushing once we know who is what, and keeping only the ones we have for breeding pure breeds.
Warning Picture Heavy!
Basket'o'Guinea
splayed legs
Tips
Mini Charlie
Num. 8 aka First born
Caps
Mini Zelda
Mini Delta
The orphans
They are maybe a day or so older than my guys and gals so perfect age. I also have them with 16 chicken chicks and 1 Turkey poult. A friend of mine is getting out of the business and is selling everything. He just got rid of his breeding flock of Guineas, countless meat rabbits (6 of which James and I got), Chickens and Turkeys. We might be able to get another poult to make 1 into 2, since Back Spanish's are amazing and endangered from what we read on hatcheries and Livestock Conservancy site.


Spunky
Cricket