How many eggs a year?

[PeepsCA]

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Once my Hens are done laying because of the high late summer/early fall temps... they are done until next spring.

 

[perchie.girl]

 

[PeepsCA]

perchie.girl :

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Patience, Grass Hoppah​

 

[perchie.girl]

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Patience, Grass Hoppah

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[WestKnollAmy]

It will be next year before I get eggs, unfortunately. Though I have a nice little flock growing up now. I think I have 11 keets that are mine. A few are the blue or lavender. Since the photos of keets colors is not very good on the websites I can't tell. One may be an Opaline, which I find attractive. And probably hawks and other predators will, too.

My one fella that showed up here to live will be happy to have some friends. He coops up with the chickens now but spends his time watching me work around the farm. He has become quite the pet in the few weeks he has been here.

Some of his new friends for fall.......

It will be my luck all I keep will be boys!

 

[PeepsCA]

The 1 grey/sliver keet is definitely a Lavender keet, the others (the 2-tone brown & tan) are Pearl Grey keets... which is what your adult is also.
Post a pic of your Opaline keet if you can!

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Beside a lavender it looks Opaline to me but I am new to this so what do you all think?
Some other color?

 

[PeepsCA]

In the first pic the coloring of that keet looks like a male Buff Dundotte to me because it appears to be tan-ish in color, not blue-ish/grey-ish.

In the 2nd pic it sort of looks like a Lite Lavender or a Porcelain, because it has quite a bit of color, but Porcelains are are usually much lighter, and lean towards being a faint blue/grey.

It's not an Opaline tho, it would have broken thin stripes on it's head, leaning more towards blue/grey color, with white wings. This keet has a wide stripe on its head with thin stripes on each side of the wide stripe, and colored wings indicating it will be a fully pearled adult. Opalines are partially pearled.

Watch the feather shafts under it's wings as it feathers out. If they are blue/grey tinted at all it's possible that it may be a Porcelain, otherwise male Buff Dundotte would still be my guess.

Cute keet tho

This is a pic of a male Buff Dundotte (from the back) that I hatched 2 yrs ago, I still have him running around free ranging:

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Oh, cool, thanks!

It does look tan-ish to me in real life but since it is the only one I wondered if could have come from all the eggs I hatched looking like lavenders and pearl greys. But the eggs came from an auction house and there were 5 dz all together that my friend brought me so in all the ones that did not develop or hatch there could have been others.

I can't wait to see what it grows up like. I find it very pretty as a keet! And it probably is a male so no eggs....bummer. But the male living here now is a cool dude so I think I will enjoy them no matter what.

 

[Scoobette13]

hi everyone!

I have been told by everyone that has guineas and also from what little I've been able to find online that they lay twice a year, usually about 20-30 eggs each time. My girl is laying for the first time and has laid 70 eggs so far!! I let her and my hens sit on the first 38 or so, she only wanted to sit for a week then got bored but thankfully I had 2 hens who went broody right away and sat on them the whole time. When the keets started hatching I took them out of the coop and put them in a brooder because one got squashed by a hen. I had numbered all the eggs but thought I missed a few so when the babies hatched I candled the ones left over with no number on them and saw no life so I threw them away. They weren't bad...just new obviously.

Well, then more eggs showed up in the coop! She lays them where the chickens lay or on the floor, either way I can't miss them since its indoors. It just hasn't stopped! I bought an incubator so my hens could go back outside...is this normal? No one I know has a gal like this. Any advice would help so I don't worry. Thank you.