Incubating Guinea Eggs

[C Siena]

Take a few white eggs and one of the dark eggs out of the carton. Lay them on their side and take the picture from above them.

One picture with flash.

 

[R2elk]

One picture with flash.View attachment 4104021View attachment 4104023

The dark eggs are guinea eggs. The white eggs look to be chicken eggs.

 

[C Siena]

The dark eggs are guinea eggs. The white eggs look to be chicken eggs.

Thank you for your help. I will hold the white ones for 7 days.
As the Mennonites don't use electric, I thought I would help her.

 

[R2elk]

Thank you for your help. I will hold the white ones for 7 days.
As the Mennonites don't use electric, I thought I would help her.

Good luck.

 

[C Siena]

I collect guinea eggs for up to 14 days.

I incubate them at 99.5°F and about 35% humidity. They can handle 40% humidity during the incubation phase. This is for a forced air incubator. Higher temps are needed for a still air incubator.

My incubator has an auto turner that turns them every 3 hours.

On day 25, I candle and move the viable eggs to the hatcher which is set to 99°F and 65% to 70% humidity. It is also forced air.

If hatching them in the same incubator as they were incubated in, I candle on day 25, discard the non-viable eggs, turn off the turner and raise the humidity to 65% to 70%.

Mine typically start hatching on day 26 and finish on day 28.

Good luck.

Your advice, please. Our NR360 reads the temp at 99.5 and the Govee at 98.5-99.5 depending on where it is in the incubator. Usually about 99.1. Humidity is ranging from 28-43%.

When dry, it's 28%, I have been only adding a little water to keep it from going over 40%. Problem is that overnight, I add a little more water and it does go up to 40-45% for a time, until morning when it is around 30ish.
How would you adjust?

 

[R2elk]

Your advice, please. Our NR360 reads the temp at 99.5 and the Govee at 98.5-99.5 depending on where it is in the incubator. Usually about 99.1. Humidity is ranging from 28-43%.

When dry, it's 28%, I have been only adding a little water to keep it from going over 40%. Problem is that overnight, I add a little more water and it does go up to 40-45% for a time, until morning when it is around 30ish.
How would you adjust?

Guinea eggs can stand a higher humidity than my chicken or turkey eggs. If you can keep the incubating humidity around 40% to 45%, you should do fine.

The way to combat the various incubating temps is to regularly (daily) move the eggs to different positions in the incubator. If you know a particular spot runs high or low, try to avoid it.

 

[C Siena]

Guinea eggs can stand a higher humidity than my chicken or turkey eggs. If you can keep the incubating humidity around 40% to 45%, you should do fine.

The way to combat the various incubating temps is to regularly (daily) move the eggs to different positions in the incubator. If you know a particular spot runs high or low, try to avoid it.

Reading the Govee instead of the factory reading helped me through the last hatch 16/22 with 3-4 not fertilized. I was marking what the temp/RH was at different areas, throughout 2 days. I was moving eggs 3 times a day in/out of the center (lowest temp) but had to as I had it full.

Thank you so much for helping us! I mean sooo many members. Maintaining 40-45% will be so much easier.