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.

 

[FiveMileCreek]

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.

What does your cabinet incubator look like? How do you lock down the top tray only?

 

[R2elk]

What does your cabinet incubator look like? How do you lock down the top tray only?

This thread is from 2012. The person you replied to hasn't been on BYC since 2017.

The person said they use a separate hatcher. They move the tray of eggs that are ready for lockdown from the incubator to the hatcher.

They do not lock down the eggs in the incubator.

 

[FiveMileCreek]

This thread is from 2012. The person you replied to hasn't been on BYC since 2017.

The person said they use a separate hatcher. They move the tray of eggs that are ready for lockdown from the incubator to the hatcher.

They do not lock down the eggs in the incubator.

Thank you for the details! I read it as though they did a lockdown in the incubator, I was thinking all the ways that is possible, if that shelf turner turned off and you cover it to have higher humidity. I was getting a creative notion off what I read. Thanks!