Incubator settings, first attempt for Guineas

[60ACRES]

Will the settings be different, temp, humidity?


What about days? How long, and when do I stop turning??

 

[TennesseeTruly]

I just hatched guineas. My temp was 99. Humidity was 65% for 25 days and 80% for 3 days. Stop turning on Day 25. I have a wonderful hatch of pearl guineas.

Good luck!

Laurie

 

[Darin115]

I just finished my first hatch of them. I set 14 eggs. 7 of the 14 were not fertile. I hatched 6 of 7. One died soon after hatching.
Another one was messed up. It was dizzy acting and could not walk. I culled it today.

So I got 4 live keets out of 7 fertile eggs. Not very good hatch rate.

I am trying to find more eggs for a second chance. I am not going to get more from the same guy. 7 out of 14 unfertile is just bad.

Darin

 

[rittert3]

In the same predicament the old man i am getting my eggs from tomarrow to me 21 days so i'm glad i saw this and also i put a turbo fan in my hovabator and can't remember but i think with that i'm supposed to keep both water troughs full for the entire incubation period.

 

[swampducks]

You guys did better than me. I set 42 eggs, 21 turned out to be infertile, and of the other 21 I got 4, 2 of which we had to help out of the shell. They're doing fine now. That attempt was using the old fill one channel of the tray in the Hovabator with water. I tried dry incubation with my chicken eggs and that's working better, so, I've set another 24 guinea eggs and we shall see.

 

[rittert3]

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Is your hovabator still air or turbofan? seems to evap. alot faster with the fan and i've had alot of shells come up to dry at hatch time i don't have any way to read my humidity so i just try to keep full. I also lost one of the vent plugs somewhere.

 

[swampducks]

It's got a fan. The humidity upstairs in the room they were in was over 60 but the last 2 to hatch were stuck to the shells. I'll try to really crank up the humidity at the end. It's working well with the chicks I'm hatching.

 

[rittert3]

mine was always set up in the cool dry basement and now garage (similar humidity/temp) so being a in a humid room may make a difference (hoping cats don't come in and mess with the keets before i can sell, i lost a blue sumatra i hatched because the cats got in the brooder.

As soon as i get my own place to raise birds it will be 100% cat free cant count the birds i've lost to them.

 

[coupcobbler]

I am picking up 12 eggs tomorrow and be putting them in the bator for monday morning, hope all goes well. this will be my first attempt

 

[HidingInTheHenHouse]

I incubated guinea eggs with my chicken eggs, so 99.5 in a forced air. Humidity at 35-45% for the first 25 days, then increased to 55-65% in the still air hatcher. I had some pips when I moved them to the hatcher at the end of day 25, since I didn't expect any to hatch until day 28. The 8 that went into the hatcher took 3 days to all hatch. Started with 12, 4 were clear, 8 hatched and doing well, so 100% for the fertile ones.