hatching old (and toasty?) guinea eggs

Lenka

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Jun 30, 2013
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Hey everyone, my neighbor found some guinea eggs this week. there were about 34 eggs in an outdoor nest. We candled them, and some were viable... but it has alos been 90ish and humid all last week and the birds had not been sitting on the eggs.

I took the eggs and put them in the incubator.. figured its good practice for when i hopefully soon get some fertile eggs..

but what are my chances that these eggs will actually hatch? im not holding my breath personally... and i will candle them at day 7 psot incubator incubation..
 
I have no experience with guinea eggs but I had a similar experience with my chicken eggs and one just hatched on me today. I put them in the incubator a week ago. Temps here we're consistently high 90's except overnight of course. I didn't expect much and from what I can tell they are quite varied in their stage of development so my hatch is going to be very staggered. I guess what I am trying to say is give them a chance you might be surprised. Good luck!
 
oh awesome! thanks for letting me know that. I also have never hatched out anything except chicken eggs, and this incubator is new to me. I think i will end up candling a few eggs every night, especially the ones that seemed a bit more developed... I'm not gonna have good luck on lock down I don't think.

good luck with your eggs!
 
well candled all the eggs on day 14ish for them and there are 12 that are good! i'm shocked and so happy!
 

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