Incubating guinea eggs and chicken eggs together?

[LaynaDon95]

Can you incubate guinea eggs and chicken eggs together? I've been offered some guinea eggs but I have chicken eggs going into my incubator in a couple weeks. Could I start off the guinea eggs and then put in the chicken eggs when I get them? (assuming I have the turner by then. I don't think that would work without the turner.)

 

[PeepsCA]

Yes, you can incubate them together, the same temp and humidity will typically work, but for lock down the Guinea eggs do better with 75% humidity or as close as you can get to that. I've never hatched chicken eggs so I don't know how well they do with the humidity that high tho. Incubating chicken eggs takes a week less than incubating Guinea eggs, so you'd need to add the chicken eggs about a week after the Guinea eggs, unless you have a separate hatcher to use, then it doesn't matter.

Good luck

 

[LaynaDon95]

That's very good news! Thank you!

 

[coleridgedane]

I always add a couple chix eggs (a week later). The chix are sort of "guide dogs" for the guineas learning to eat & drink.

 

[jcatblum]

I often do guinea & chicken eggs together. Last night we sat 52 guinea eggs & 5 dz chicken eggs. I use a separate hatcher so we label each tray with the proper dates & I try to always keep the oldest eggs at the top of my cabinet incubator & every Monday I lock down the top tray.

 

[LaynaDon95]

I always add a couple chix eggs (a week later). The chix are sort of "guide dogs" for the guineas learning to eat & drink.

Oh, that's smart. Gives me more to think about. Thanks.