New keets hatched today!!

[pcosmom]

10 of 11 of my guineas eggs hatched today by my broody hen

 

[pcosmom]

 

[Hotcookie]

Adorable!! Are you going to let your hen raise them or are you going to bring them inside to do it yourself?

 

[KAZROB]

I had a Broody hen hatch seven of my eight eggs, because their mum was sadly killed the night they were due to hatch, they are now at the point of lay, in fact some have laid and they are still with their foster mum, go to bed with her every night and they are perch around her and some even STILL get under her if they can, she has been a FANTABULOUS foster mum, and still is I just love them and she is special for being sooooooooo exceptionally good with them! Good luck with your guineas

 

[pcosmom]

The hen will raise them I have a chicken as of lastnight with 8 new babies as well.. They will stay in the chicken house with a small yard till bigger my other birds free range and never go in the house anyway

 

[malinois]

If you do bring them inside, how and when do you get them back into the flock?

 

[joker468]

If you are wanting them to be raised with the flock then leave them with the flock. You may have to keep the flock penned up with them for several weeks until they are big enough to tolerate the tall wet weeds and avoid predation.
Good luck.

 

[joker468]

If you are keeping the keets with a chicken then that is different than letting a guinea hen mother them. If you research guineas in their native habitat it is much different than here in the US. Guinea hen knows instinctively how raise her keets in her native habitat. Chickens on the other hand are more instintive to climate conditions here and do make better keet mothers than do guinea hens.

 

[joker468]

OH man! I am mess today, sorry.
If you need to bring keets inside and then in a day or so you want to reunite them with the hen, well some do it differently. I plan to add keets to the newly hatched flock during the night. So far my broody chickens have accepted everything I have done so far, I am about to find out how well they accept new keets to the flock. I will post how it goes.

 

[pcosmom]

Ah well my chicken guinea momma killed my 8 baby chicks my other momma had .. So guinea chicken momma and 7 keets r in a brooder till the keets r bigger..
Chicken momma has a passal of babies now though.. She is in a dog kennel with wire around till my babies r bigger to keep them safe.. She is suck a good momma and I can give her any baby and she accepts first babies r a week old but she accepts my new babies all week out of the bator last ones r hatching now

My guinea hen is now setting on 13 eggs beside my house in the weeds around my fig tree... I will let her hatch them and then move them to the brooder till the keets r bigger