What is your experience and/or tips for shipped guineafowl eggs?

[hysop]

So I’m debating on buying some guineafowl eggs in June.

The location is close enough that I can drive but my husband rather have them shipped. (About 4 hrs roundtrip)

I saw an article on here about caring for shipped guineafowl eggs. It recommended to turn eggs a specific way during incubation, but I have a Nurture Right 360 incubator that turns my eggs for me kinda just rolling em along.

I guess my question is will that work? What is your experience with shipped guineafowl eggs or any guineafowl type incubation? Thank you in advance.

Update** I ended up ordering keets from Cackle Hatchery instead of hatching eggs.

 

[mkeawsh]

I initially used to incubate each year - guineas and chickens. This year we drove to Cackle Hatchery and just bought day old chicks. Are very healthy. Going to order Guineas from them next year and pick them up. Have gotten shipped chicks in the past and they were much weaker than theses that we picked up this year.

 

[hysop]

I initially used to incubate each year - guineas and chickens. This year we drove to Cackle Hatchery and just bought day old chicks. Are very healthy. Going to order Guineas from them next year and pick them up. Have gotten shipped chicks in the past and they were much weaker than theses that we picked up this year.

Oh I have 6 adult male guineas out of my initial 18 I got shipped as keets from Cackle Hatchery too. I love them. But this time I want to get some hatching eggs and found someone local within my state and I want to try my hand at hatching some.

The keets I got shipped from Cackle Hatchery were amazing, I highly recommend them, but for the sake of helping out a local business AND hatching my own, I need some tips on shipped guineafowl eggs.

 

[R2elk]

So I’m debating on buying some guineafowl eggs in June.

The location is close enough that I can drive but my husband rather have them shipped. (About 4 hrs roundtrip)

I saw an article on here about caring for shipped guineafowl eggs. It recommended to turn eggs a specific way during incubation, but I have a Nurture Right 360 incubator that turns my eggs for me kinda just rolling em along.

I guess my question is will that work? What is your experience with shipped guineafowl eggs or any guineafowl type incubation? Thank you in advance.

If you can pick them up yourself, do it. You will know exactly how they were treated during the trip. If you have them shipped, they may take days to reach you and you have no control over how they were handled.

If you pick them up you will not need to be concerned about treating them in a "special" way.

 

[mkeawsh]

Oh I have 6 adult male guineas out of my initial 18 I got shipped as keets from Cackle Hatchery too. I love them. But this time I want to get some hatching eggs and found someone local within my state and I want to try my hand at hatching some.

The keets I got shipped from Cackle Hatchery were amazing, I highly recommend them, but for the sake of helping out a local business AND hatching my own, I need some tips on shipped guineafowl eggs.

I am giving a dozen guinea eggs to a friend today. They like not having to get jostled eggs through the mail.

 

[mkeawsh]

So I’m debating on buying some guineafowl eggs in June.

The location is close enough that I can drive but my husband rather have them shipped. (About 4 hrs roundtrip)

I saw an article on here about caring for shipped guineafowl eggs. It recommended to turn eggs a specific way during incubation, but I have a Nurture Right 360 incubator that turns my eggs for me kinda just rolling em along.

I guess my question is will that work? What is your experience with shipped guineafowl eggs or any guineafowl type incubation? Thank you in advance.

We live 4 hours round trip from Cackle.

 

[hysop]

If you can pick them up yourself, do it. You will know exactly how they were treated during the trip. If you have them shipped, they may take days to reach you and you have no control over how they were handled.

If you pick them up you will not need to be concerned about treating them in a "special" way.

That was my preference when I saw how close they were but my husband thinks the drive is not worth it with two 4 year old kids just to get a dozen eggs. Plus with everything that is going on in Georgia, he says he’s willing to pay the $15 shipping fee (and accept the risk of poor egg handling )

We’ll see if anything changes, but in GA the quarantine is extended til end of May right now and I have an inkling it will keep getting extended to June or even July which would make traveling not a good idea.

So, for now I’m wondering if my Nurture Right 360 will be a good incubator for guinea eggs.

 

[hysop]

We live 4 hours round trip from Cackle.

That’s awesome! I wish I lived that close to a hatchery that had such a variety of birds. For live birds I wouldn’t mind making a trip like that but for eggs it’s iffy.

My husband doesn’t care for guineas so it’s not that easy to convince him to drive 2 hrs to pick up some guinea eggs and 2 hrs back. I want guineas because I want some female companions for my males.

 

[mkeawsh]

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That’s awesome! I wish I lived that close to a hatchery that had such a variety of birds. For live birds I wouldn’t mind making a trip like that but for eggs it’s iffy.

My husband doesn’t care for guineas so it’s not that easy to convince him to drive 2 hrs to pick up some guinea eggs and 2 hrs back. I want guineas because I want some female companions for my males.

I always need females. That is the only reason I keep on incubating them. They tend to lay and brood where ever their little hearts desire and if I don't see where the male goes in the woods to hang out with her, I cannot put the protective cage around her and the male ends up continuously calling for her after a fox, bobcat, coyote, owl, hawk etc. has gotten her.

 

[hysop]

I always need I always need females. That is the only reason I keep on incubating them. They tend to lay and brood where ever their little hearts desire and if I don't see where the male goes in the woods to hang out with her, I cannot put the protective cage around her and the male ends up continuously calling for her after a fox, bobcat, coyote, owl, hawk etc. has gotten her.

That’s so sad. When my 18 keets got to like a month or two old, we lost a good handful to my dog (I think he was playing with them more than trying to eat them, but once he killed them he was like I guess they’re lunch now) the others kept looking for them and calling out to them. It was so sad. I ended up with one female who just last month got picked up by a hawk one morning, we didn’t see it happen but we saw the feather mess . After that the remaining males went quiet for a weeks. Now they’re back to normal, but they need some company.