Why doesn't my guinea girl make eggs?

[perchie.girl]

I have seen youTube video of their egg song and its very very quiet and ONLY while they are laying their egg. So you will have to look for the male doing guard duty. If you dont have a male the nest is hidden somewhere. they are masters at hiding.

WRT the rooster mating the Guinea..... If the eggs hatch the chicks are hybrids and sterile. They will have traits of both chicken and Guinea though. The articles I have read on the subject have indicated that they usually dont live as long as purebreds. The crosses are pretty interesting looking though.

deb

good. I just got 3 bantams. One bantam I squashed accidently by putting the waterer in the cage. I learned how fragile they are. The other was the fault of my hen I left in their. So I got three fine ones. The yellow baby feathered bantam had like 4 pink spots, 2 on one wing at the top arm part and 1 on the other same region of that wing and one spot was on her back but it got a lil pinker... she's with barred rock babies and they are same size as the black giant babies. they are growing up together. The giants were about the same size as the barreds at first. now they are all growing. The yellow is growing a lot for a bantam.

I wish I can start hatching keets. I never had yet. I have no male guinea. Like 6 months ago my only and first male guinea got ran over on our road. Someday we plan to move and he would have been safer at our bigger farm. We always free-ranged our birds. I was lucky, I got my first 4 guineas, they turned out to be 3 girls and one boy. but now I'm down to one girl.

I was asking you all that because we think the rooster may be doing her too besides his only 7 adult hens now. Which we got 2 new females for him I seen him do the dance for his babies, which he dont know they are his own babies. But I did get 5 new males, RIR's. 4 of my roosters babies are males and we gotta eat 3 of them, cuz of too many males... I wanted one RIR st. run b/c it's a bigger chance of male but my man I live with said make it 5. We got 5 Americana baby pullets too. Why are girls pullets, exactly, why called that? pull-its? pollo is italian for chicken, male. polli is italian for males and females grouped together or only males in a group of chickens. Polle is if it were females, all female in a group only. Polla is one single female chicken. French has the -ette I thought. Like Baguette.

I know there are people out there that can hatch keets often. Maybe I'm not the kind of person for that... How do you find a secluded nest? I thought it would be simple but our birds go to our neighbors and their dogs barked when I tried to follow her one day.

OOh... wait.. do Guineas have an "egg song" of their own after they lay like a chicken? I hear her do that... but I ran there and seen nothing. I didn't know where to look. I was careful not to make the neighbor's dog bark... The neighbor gave me a weird look for going there. Soon we will fence in our birds in a big area, once we get fencing for that... Maybe I'll have better luck for a half-bred guinea. When we move, we'll have to order more Guinea babies/fertilized eggs. We are going to live in Oklahoma, can you help me with that? But I know a place I can order them from another state close by enough.. but do you know if you got something like that or a place closer to me that you know of?

It's all good.

 

[Guinea and Chicken raiser]

that's okay. not a crime... but I thought it was you trying to mimic me... sorry. I did not say it was a crime.. it could be a slight case of cyber bullying or you were someone trying to replace me. Just because I'm not around much.... lmao. Nah, we can be friends if you can stop being so apologetic and thinking the worst of what I mean.

I'm sorry we raise chickens and guineas. I didn't know a similar screen name was a crime. I'm sorry.

 

[Guinea and Chicken raiser]

thank you perchie.girl (for watching the vid). I didn't think that was so quiet. We got the guinea put in a closed in spot now, so her old nest would be deserted. Well someone on here said guineas don't lay eggs in winter (without proper food).

I did look online before that a guinea's nest is put in a secluded, well-hidden spot, I thought I would be able to handle it, but I can't when she used to go in the neighbors yard and we have a bunch of woods all around... and someone on a different site online said like guineas would rather lay an egg on a church steeple than on a fixed nesting spot on the ground...

what does WRT mean? I have not interbreeded guinea with chicken yet, I am thinking about it. I looked up today a rooster and a guinea hen will make a gamey taste bird that if you kept it alive it would be infertile. People raise guineas and chickens together anyways to make meat birds... it said too. Oh yea like you said "sterile" always, hugh? Site said they look like a turkey, I seen a pic before that on a different site and it doesn't really look like a turkey to me... oh well.

Wow, I have not read that part that a chick-uinea wouldn't live as long as a purebred. Does that work with like mating a silver wyandotte rooster with a Red-Production hen? Or a RIR male with a Minorca? that they won't live as long as if full-bred?

Thanks Deb!

I have seen youTube video of their egg song and its very very quiet and ONLY while they are laying their egg. So you will have to look for the male doing guard duty. If you dont have a male the nest is hidden somewhere. they are masters at hiding.

WRT the rooster mating the Guinea..... If the eggs hatch the chicks are hybrids and sterile. They will have traits of both chicken and Guinea though. The articles I have read on the subject have indicated that they usually dont live as long as purebreds. The crosses are pretty interesting looking though.

deb

 

[Guinea and Chicken raiser]

okay then... I also felt bad initially when I seen that name, I thought I took their first choice of name... I was the apologenic one originally. I hope they are okay.

@ the guinea I didn't find her nest, but she is in a cage now, big one.. 100 foot square... I found three of her eggs, one each day so far... she laid the 3rd one later than the first two. I went to see if they were fertile and the first two weren't, but the third one, I'm gonna try incubating it first, I got that one like an hour or two after it got laid, it wasn't notably warm.
We have no male right now, but we are getting 4 new guinea keets real soon.

Oh... don't take any eggs where she sees me, it might be too late... I was hungry for the second one after my body decided it liked the richness. I had it just plain pan fried.. dont need ketchup, cheese or anything to add to its flavor. I put cheese on one for a sandwich, didn't work. It tasted better by itself. Thanks, you are a charm.

i see no problem with the screen names. now my guineas lay between 10am and 2pm. her mate will be close by when she is laying or sitting. he will sound the alarm when you get to close to her and try to lead you away from her and the nest. so look for a single guinea hanging around by himself between 10 and 2 and you will find the nest. but dont take any eggs while they can see you or they will nest in a different spot. they like to nest in the bushes,under something, mostly in the thickest ugliest snake infested place they can find. the are very private when it comes to laying eggs. good luck finding there nest.

 

[Guinea and Chicken raiser]

great minds think alike.

from San Diego.... Keets an Chicks.... There are plenty of usernames that are similar here .... Great minds and all. No worries here.

deb

 

[Guinea and Chicken raiser]

So I put the guinea amongst chickens in a 100 foot square pen and she made a new nest that very same day. Since it's Spring time now. I wanted to see if they were fertile... I put a flashlight I think but I couldn't tell... maybe I didn't use that, it was daytime and I was hungry for eggs and I seen the egg in the daytime. I wasn't that hungry, I noticed it was small. I didn't take any other egg at that time. I made a two-chicken egg omlette after that, with a slice of cheese.
Anyways, the first two didn't have signs of fertility like some chicken eggs do. The guinea hen is around a chicken rooster. We are going to get 4 more guinea keets, we don't know if we'd get more male or female. I feel worried that if just one is a male, he'd not like any chicken rooster. The adult rooster has a son rooster that just started to crow even, and we def. want to keep the son, the dad does not like us to go near him and the adult daddy rooster tries to hurt us, so we wouldn't care if the guinea male bothered him. Last year we had a guinea male that kept the two rooster males we used to have away from food.

(Just for people who wonder where their guinea eggs are from now on...)

 

[perchie.girl]

WRT = With Regard To

Its a very old acronym.

deb

thank you perchie.girl (for watching the vid). I didn't think that was so quiet. We got the guinea put in a closed in spot now, so her old nest would be deserted. Well someone on here said guineas don't lay eggs in winter (without proper food).

I did look online before that a guinea's nest is put in a secluded, well-hidden spot, I thought I would be able to handle it, but I can't when she used to go in the neighbors yard and we have a bunch of woods all around... and someone on a different site online said like guineas would rather lay an egg on a church steeple than on a fixed nesting spot on the ground...

what does WRT mean? I have not interbreeded guinea with chicken yet, I am thinking about it. I looked up today a rooster and a guinea hen will make a gamey taste bird that if you kept it alive it would be infertile. People raise guineas and chickens together anyways to make meat birds... it said too. Oh yea like you said "sterile" always, hugh? Site said they look like a turkey, I seen a pic before that on a different site and it doesn't really look like a turkey to me... oh well.

Wow, I have not read that part that a chick-uinea wouldn't live as long as a purebred. Does that work with like mating a silver wyandotte rooster with a Red-Production hen? Or a RIR male with a Minorca? that they won't live as long as if full-bred?

Thanks Deb!

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[perchie.girl]

Just curious.... how do you tell an egg is fertile without cracking the egg and looking for the bullseye.

deb

So I put the guinea amongst chickens in a 100 foot square pen and she made a new nest that very same day. Since it's Spring time now. I wanted to see if they were fertile... I put a flashlight I think but I couldn't tell... maybe I didn't use that, it was daytime and I was hungry for eggs and I seen the egg in the daytime. I wasn't that hungry, I noticed it was small. I didn't take any other egg at that time. I made a two-chicken egg omlette after that, with a slice of cheese.
Anyways, the first two didn't have signs of fertility like some chicken eggs do. The guinea hen is around a chicken rooster. We are going to get 4 more guinea keets, we don't know if we'd get more male or female. I feel worried that if just one is a male, he'd not like any chicken rooster. The adult rooster has a son rooster that just started to crow even, and we def. want to keep the son, the dad does not like us to go near him and the adult daddy rooster tries to hurt us, so we wouldn't care if the guinea male bothered him. Last year we had a guinea male that kept the two rooster males we used to have away from food.

(Just for people who wonder where their guinea eggs are from now on...)

 

[PeepsCA]

You don't, lol. Not until they've been incubated or sat on by a broody for at least 7 days.

 

[perchie.girl]

Thats what I thought....

You don't, lol. Not until they've been incubated or sat on by a broody for at least 7 days.