So many questions!

[Susiederkins]

I have been reading the forums and articles and still have sooo many questions.
1. I started some guinea eggs in a aquarium I set up via instructions I found here and had no luck maintaining temperature. Did I kill the eggs?
2. I purchased an incubator and put them in there just in case, but now I am reading the debate about turning them. To turn them (I did not purchase a turner...dang) I will obviously need to remove the top...and lose temperature and humidity... Is there another way?
3. I read the instructions, and many of the posts on the forums and now I wonder if I take out any of the plugs...
I am thinking that too much information is a bad thing!!!
I have appologized to my little eggies...I told them their mommy is a retard and forgot about them (too cold) and then I told them that their mommy had a fever (too hot). I hope I am not the only person that talks to their eggs.

Any advice would be terrific!!!!

 

[redsoxs]

Greetings from Kansas, susiederkins, and

! Happy to have you aboard! I have little hatching experience - and none with guineas - so I'd advise posting over in the incubating & hatching forum link below. They will be able to answer all of your questions! Good luck and happy hatching!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/f/5/incubating-hatching-eggs

 

[drumstick diva]

If you don't have a turner, you can raise one side of the incubator so it tiltes the eggs gently, next time raise the opposite side. You are not a retard, no one is born with knowledge.
with research and experience you will prevail. Incidentally I hybridize plants and talk to them often ie;. "Sorry kids, I'm busy today but, I promise to water you tomorrow." Plants know I am a liar.

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

Welcome to BYC!!!

Glad to have you aboard!!

 

[BantamFan4Life]

Welcome to BYC! Glad you joined us!

 

[Susiederkins]

thanks! I will look.

 

[Susiederkins]

As a new member getting info, I wanted to thank my greeters. This site has helped me so very much. I now have adolescent guinea fowl that feel mis-treated because I only feed them twice a day and have a waterer for them (got the nipple things). My chickens that I adopted (old roosters and hens who no longer lay) are all healed of the leg scale they came to me with, my Polish rooster (Top Knot) has no toes anymore due to the mites, but is walking and is the head buster in the yard (his scale was so bad he was disabled and had been for over a year from what his last owner said).
BYC has made me a loving and informed egg mommy and chicken healer, as well as a middle school teacher for guineas and I want to that you all for all you have taught me. More to come right???

 

[sumi]

A belated Welcome to BYC. I'm sorry to hear about your problems and glad to hear things worked out so well for you. I had to laugh when I read about your guineas, my chickens are the same. Except with them it's treats, but mean mommy only give them treats twice a day.