Incubators Anonymous

[DMRippy]

Quote: I hatch all the time so I don't worry about that. But you could do it that way if you want them to hatch at the same time. If they hatch early it will not hurt them to be a few days apart. Just me, but I will not brood guinea and chickens together. Some do.... I will not. I did it and just didn't like the flighty-ness of the guinea in the same pen.

 

[ozexpat]

Oh that's terrible

so do you just set the ginuea eggs and then wait a week and set the chicken eggs with them?

the normal incubation time is 28 days so that will work out fine

i am hatching 40 GF eggs on my next get-the-flock-out-of-here run. i set together but use a separate hatcher.

good luck

 

[Chucklecluck]

I would love to get ahold of some ginuea eggs also would love to get some geese, duck and turkey eggs. If anyone have any up for sale it just have to many hit me up. I could also incubate for someone for halfsies if someone wants. I got a50-60% rate on 200 miles + and a 90% on local

 

[ozexpat]

I would love to get ahold of some ginuea eggs also would love to get some geese, duck and turkey eggs. If anyone have any up for sale it just have to many hit me up. I could also incubate for someone for halfsies if someone wants. I got a50-60% rate on 200 miles + and a 90% on local

ca peeps has great guineas. shipped from cali but reasonable pricing

 

[DMRippy]

I would love to get ahold of some ginuea eggs also would love to get some geese, duck and turkey eggs. If anyone have any up for sale it just have to many hit me up. I could also incubate for someone for halfsies if someone wants. I got a50-60% rate on 200 miles + and a 90% on local

Someone put some guinea eggs up on the Just in time thread in my siggy. I have had GREAT hatch rates on shipped guinea eggs... near 100% is common on them. They are tougher than chicken eggs for some reason.

 

[ozexpat]

Someone put some guinea eggs up on the Just in time thread in my siggy. I have had GREAT hatch rates on shipped guinea eggs... near 100% is common on them. They are tougher than chicken eggs for some reason.

they also keep fertility 10-14 days

 

[DMRippy]

Quote: Chicken eggs do to.... I have hatched chicken eggs over 30 day old.

 

[ozexpat]

Chicken eggs do to.... I have hatched chicken eggs over 30 day old.

I have read you say so. I have hatched one month old trader joes refrigerated eggs too. I guess what I am saying is that although you can have success hatching older eggs with any breed, studies have shown that guinea fowl eggs have a statistically better chance of being viable at ten days than a chicken egg stored under the same conditions.

 

[mrshaggie810]

All right, well, we are jumping into the world of hatching! I'm setting up the bator today, so long as we can find the duck tape, and since we are doing this for the homesteading/mini-farming value so I figured we would try a cooler bator and see what happens...if we like it, we might invest in a more expensive bator, but for right now, we have fertile duck eggs, so we are going to try to set about 12 to raise as meat ducks...or to sell as chicks....not sure yet, and if that goes well I've been eyeing SFH for over a year, but they were out of stock from Greenfire and the one I found local sold before I could get it. :/ SOOO if it's a successful hatch, I'm going to hunt down some fertile SFH eggs and have a go at it.

 

[Overoberyl]

All right, well, we are jumping into the world of hatching! I'm setting up the bator today, so long as we can find the duck tape, and since we are doing this for the homesteading/mini-farming value so I figured we would try a cooler bator and see what happens...if we like it, we might invest in a more expensive bator, but for right now, we have fertile duck eggs, so we are going to try to set about 12 to raise as meat ducks...or to sell as chicks....not sure yet, and if that goes well I've been eyeing SFH for over a year, but they were out of stock from Greenfire and the one I found local sold before I could get it. :/ SOOO if it's a successful hatch, I'm going to hunt down some fertile SFH eggs and have a go at it.

You may want to read the previous posts regarding SFH, esp if you are planning to use as a dual purpose bird or process extra cockerels, they are not a good investment imo. The peeps on the SFH are quite in love with them and refuse to admit that the meat yield is as pitiful as it is. A friend of mine who raises them has gotten max 3.5lbs dressed. Almost not worth the effort...there are many other breeds that are much better for dual purpose.

Good luck with your cooler bator, would love to see pics!