my guineas

[african chickens]

i have 11 guinea hens, 9 males, and 2 female I can tell 2 of the males apart Rudolph's horn has split so it looks like he has reindeer antlers and paul who even though he's not a female has a short horn and messed up feathers I mainly signed up because I am very worried about the 19 eggs we discovered one of the females started staying out at night on the 3 days we watched her go into a patch of weeds so we followed her and what do you know shes laying down a little bit later I went to check and she was in the yard I decided to check the 'nest' and again what do you know there are eggs I went back to count and sadly on my way there were at least three empty shells later we got latex gloves and went to move the nest for some reason some of them were covered in what looked like yolk once we reached the bottom I noticed there were eggshells at the bottom they were now in the stall aka coop later when I checked on them before I went to bed nobody was sitting on it we decided to move it to the shelf in there stall aka coop i ended up checking on the again later still nothing I'm worried they wont hatch with is sad but reading the articles on here i feel much better.

 

[Isaac 0]

Welcome to BYC!

 

[african chickens]

what?????????????????

 

[african chickens]

breeds? i have a pond with wild mallards and wood ducks

 

[african chickens]

I cant wait for a reply i need to go to bed

 

[Gallinarium]

I don't have much experience with guineas, but I do know that they lay in a community nest. If the eggs pile too high, some may break. Best of luck on them accepting the moved nest. I hope someone with more experience comes along. Welcome to BYC!

 

[Madhouse Pullet]

Hello, welcome! I wish I had more experience. Theres a lot of information here, years worth. I hope you find what you're looking for.

 

[Pork Pie]

Hi and welcome to BYC. I hope the experts will be able to help.

 

[african chickens]

hey guys thanks I would love to answer all you questions on guineas

 

[My2butterflies]

Welcome!
Not an expert here, but my understanding is you’d need to move the hen with the eggs to have a better shot at getting her to continue to sit on a moved nest. Do you have a pen or enclosure you can put her and the eggs in?
I have yet to try having a hen hatch eggs. I let my girls keep a nest early this summer, but they gave up on the eggs a couple weeks before they hatched. I moved them to the incubator and 8 out of 10 fertile eggs hatched.
I moved 9 eggs from a couple nests into a new coop with nest boxes. I was hoping this might encourage them to you the boxes instead of the tall grass outside.
It hasn’t worked. They seem to totally ignore moved eggs. For me anyway.