My guinea eggs are going into lockdown today!

[PeepsCA]

Welllllllll???? UPDATE UPDATE!!! Did any of your eggs hatch???

 

[StevenW.]

Sadly, none of them hatched.

 

[PeepsCA]

Oh no, what a bummer

I know you were hoping for at least a couple.
Winter is pretty rough when you are dealing with baby keets,

so maybe it worked out for the best

In a few more months you'll have lots of eggs from your own Guineas to incubate

 

[cjh0907]

Im new to the whole poultry thing this year and wanted to hatch come spring time, I have ducks, chickens, and guineas. How difficult are guineas to hatch compared to the other two?

 

[GuineaLady93]

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I have hatched all of those and there is not much difference. I treated the chicken and guinea eggs about the same and just sprayed the duck eggs with a little warm water everyday starting on the 10th day and stopping on the 25th.

 

[PeepsCA]

Guinea eggs are pretty forgiving when it comes to incubation conditions, I would say they are definitely one of the easier types of eggs to hatch. And typically eggs from healthy, well fed breeding stock have great fertility rates (at least mine do), and hatch rates often average close to 100%.

Keep in mind that once hatched the keets need high protein starter feed, quite a bit higher than chicks do to develop at the proper rate tho (around 28% protein is optimal). Medicated Turkey, Pheasant or Game Bird starter feed is recommended (with Amprolium), and is what's commonly used. Whether or not you use a medicated feed is a personal choice based on availability and your brooder and poultry set up, but you should definitely opt for high protein.

They of course also need a heated brooder that you will decrease the temp in weekly by 5 degrees, and they need certain types of bedding at certain ages...

There's lots of info on this site about incubating and raising keets, Happy reading

 

[StevenW.]

Yeah, I was a little bummed not getting any keets.

Was hopeing for some little chickies around here, but nope! Maybe it was not to be?

 

[Fenika]

Bummer, but Peeps is right about there being a bright side. Bringing up little keets in winter is a pain.