Population is expanding by leaps and bounds!

[elevan]

Our Salmon Faverolle hen sat on and hatched 11 guinea keets. Then a Barnevelder hen sat and hatched 16 keets. And now we have a guinea hen setting on a nest next to the house. She probably has 25-30 eggs on that nest.

We went from 7 guineas to 34 almost overnight with more due in a couple weeks!

 

[TheJadeChicken]

Sounds like you got your hands full! Feeding and watching little keets! xD

 

[chesterchickens]

I am located in Chesterland, Ohio...if you are nearby I would love to either by some keets, or fertile eggs! Let me know
Thanks!

 

[KrisH]

This sounds very familar. We had 15, lost 1, and now have keets hatching like mad. We currently have 23 in the house, 6 with a wyandotte, and another wyandotte on more eggs. Oh and at least 6 more in the incubator that the Guinea hens started sitting and then stopped, they are real close. We have doubled our original flock, yikes. Oh they are all Coral Blues.

 

[PeepsCA]

I think I now officially qualify as a Guinea Hoarder... this is the 2nd yr in a row that I've ended up with 125+ Guineas in my flocks from hatching so many pretty keets!

 

[prairie]

I am so envious of all your keets!! I had two hatch yesterday under a Cornish banty and have 15 eggs under an Australorp due on July 4. Sure hope we have more.

I have 3 guinea hens with nests but they are not setting yet and don't know if the eggs will be good becuase of the heat. Two of the nests are outdoors with very little shade.

 

[PeepsCA]

Those eggs may surprise you prairie... and once a Hen goes broody on them they even may hatch early. Sounds like you need an incubator, or more broodies!

 

[prairie]

I really don't have time to take care of a hatcher and the keets when they are young -- just need more broody chickens and let them do the work!!

 

[JLeigh]

I'm with ya prairie. I can't wait until my chicken hens are broody so they can hatch some keet eggs. I won't give up my incubator, because that's a thrill, but I'll enjoy watching them hatch "naturally". My chickens haven't started laying yet, so it will be next season before I have egg laying guineas AND chicken hens to get the job done.