Mistake setting guinea and chicken eggs together

[PotterWatch]

Ok, so I obviously should have looked this up about two weeks ago, but I just read that guinea eggs take about a week longer than chicken eggs. I had been told by a local person that they hatch guineas and chickens together with no problems. No mention of starting the guineas earlier than the chickens so I put mine in the incubator on the same day almost two weeks ago. I have four guinea eggs in with nine chicken eggs. What do I do when the chicken eggs are supposed to go on lockdown to hatch? I only have one incubator, so I don't have an easy way to separate them. Anyone have any ideas on how to fix my boneheaded mistake?

 

[R2elk]

Ok, so I obviously should have looked this up about two weeks ago, but I just read that guinea eggs take about a week longer than chicken eggs. I had been told by a local person that they hatch guineas and chickens together with no problems. No mention of starting the guineas earlier than the chickens so I put mine in the incubator on the same day almost two weeks ago. I have four guinea eggs in with nine chicken eggs. What do I do when the chicken eggs are supposed to go on lockdown to hatch? I only have one incubator, so I don't have an easy way to separate them. Anyone have any ideas on how to fix my boneheaded mistake?

What I did was to move my chicken eggs to the hatching tray (cabinet incubator) and raised my humidity to the mid 40% range while the chicken eggs hatched and I left the guinea eggs in the turner until it was time for them to go into lock down. I had already had the chicken eggs started for a specific hatch date when the ordered guinea eggs showed up a couple of days after the chicken eggs were already started.

The guinea eggs had been ordered from a hatchery in December with the shipping date being set as early as possible with no definite date set.

The chicken eggs hatched fine and about ten days later the guinea eggs hatched at what I consider an excellent rate for me on shipped eggs.

 

[loves2hatch]

I'm in the process of this. the chickens already hatched but they accidentally put a guinea egg in with the bantam eggs. So I continue incubating this one lonely egg in a Styrofoam incubator.
It's still alive so far with the hatch day being this Saturday.
I hatched all upright in egg cartons so they don't get bumped around I used a Styrofoam meat tray with two sponges for upping the humidity. I do have two incubators and moved them over once the incubator was at correct temp but two chicks had already hatched early and a couple more had pipped.

I don't know what kind of incubator you have, but maybe you could put the Guinea eggs in egg cartons or something to hold them so they don't get rolled around while the others hatch. do a quick rinse of the incubator after the chicks are done hatching and take out all the water used for humidity until its time to lock down the guinea eggs?
But I don't think a few days of upped humidity will hurt them that late in incubation. but the mess and smell that the hatched eggs make probably would. I won't know if mine will be ok unitl this Saturday.

My problem is I don't know what to do with this one lonely keet if it does hatch. Do I put it in with the chicks that will be a week old, or leave it lonely? They aren't mine and they will be going to the people I hatched them for, but they have no experience with guineas either.
What should I do with the 1 week younger keet? what are you going to do with yours? Put them together or keep them seperate?

 

[NJCHICKMAN]

I just did this too. Everyone hatched and is doing well. The chickens are huge compared to the guineas. I am a little concerned about the guineas growing. They are all on chick starter but the guineas do not appear to be growing. I know they are supposed to be on turkey starter. Should I just switch them all to it?

 

[R2elk]

I just did this too. Everyone hatched and is doing well. The chickens are huge compared to the guineas. I am a little concerned about the guineas growing. They are all on chick starter but the guineas do not appear to be growing. I know they are supposed to be on turkey starter. Should I just switch them all to it?

The keets really need the higher protein for proper development. I routinely brood chicks and keets and poults together and feed all of them turkey/game bird starter that is 28% protein. I have not had any issues with the chicks getting the higher protein feed.

 

[loves2hatch]

My guinea egg didn't hatch. It died sometime after lock down day. Good Luck with yours I hope you have a great hatch.