Help Guinea had an egg in January.

[DonnaScott]

Well, I just have kept my fingers crossed the whole time!!! I think I started with 12, 4 ended up not being fertile. I had 8 go into lockdown but I think there may've been an early quitter or two, it's hard to tell when they fill up the eggs so completely. I'll be happy with any hatch, I'll consider that a success. I dry hatch up until lockdown and then raise the humidity for the last 3 days. That's how I've had the best results with my quail & chicken eggs here in Oklahoma.

Add: oh, and don't look at them! Lol

LOL omg!

I may have to buy myself an incubator and see what happens. Self turning ones fairly convenient?

 

[R2elk]

LOL omg!

I may have to buy myself an incubator and see what happens. Self turning ones fairly convenient?

I highly recommend getting an incubator with an auto turner.

 

[DonnaScott]

My husband never gets tired of all the money I spend on the birds that will never cost us anything

 

[red horse ranch]

Here are some of mine I hatched last summer

 

[Pennys Mama]

LOL omg!

I may have to buy myself an incubator and see what happens. Self turning ones fairly convenient?

I've used both the rolling type turner and the one that tilts them back & forth. I like the tilt back & forth one better because it seems the air sac is better positioned in them.

 

[R2elk]

I've used both the rolling type turner and the one that tilts them back & forth. I like the tilt back & forth one better because it seems the air sac is better positioned in them.View attachment 2003975

Of course once you advance to a cabinet incubator, the whole tray tilts back and forth.

 

[Pennys Mama]

Of course once you advance to a cabinet incubator, the whole tray tilts back and forth.

Don't tempt me!!! Lol

 

[DonnaScott]

I've used both the rolling type turner and the one that tilts them back & forth. I like the tilt back & forth one better because it seems the air sac is better positioned in them.View attachment 2003975

that looks like a 1000 dollar machine. :-O

 

[Pennys Mama]

that looks like a 1000 dollar machine. :-O

I've also got a GoodMother, it's like the Janoel-12 or 9 or something. It will hold 15 guinea eggs in its turner tray & rails.

The bigger one was probably twice the cost of my GoodMother which was around $80ish.....Amazon, incubator warehouse, ebay......

 

[R2elk]

Don't tempt me!!! Lol

A GQF cabinet incubator can have a "Total Capacity with plastic trays (not included): 1368 Quail Eggs, 354 pheasant eggs, 270 chicken eggs, 198 turkey or duck eggs, or 36-45 larger eggs such as goose, peafowl, and emu."

Of course you have to double stack the quail eggs to reach that capacity. And the quail egg trays are made to be stacked.