Will a chicken set on guinea fowl eggs?

[Kindafarma]

I have a broody silkie. Would she set and hatch out guinea fowl eggs?

 

[MagsC]

I think so?

 

[Teach97]

as long as you aren't putting different colored eggs you will be okay...it is kinda like giving a hen more chicks to take care of...they can't count but they know what colors they had

 

[Kindafarma]

Thanks! I'm gonna give it a try

 

[alicefelldown]

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Are you sure about this? Anecdotally, I've placed all the colors of the egg rainbow under tan/light brown layers and I'm not sure they've noticed or cared about the difference. Exactly what happened when you tried - or did you read this somewhere?

 

[chickenma]

I have put all kinds of colors of eggs under my ameraucana broody and she did not care as long as she could sit on them and hatch them. After that she took care of all the chickies and none were hers.
When she is broody she even steels eggs from other birds to sit on. She rolles it into her own nest. Very funny. How more the better it seems.
I don't think they care if they are broody they don't recognize their eggs and they think it is theirs if they hatch it. This is the best incubator ever.

 

[Kindafarma]

I've also put my araucana colored eggs under my broody cochin. She didn't care, and when they hatched she treated them like her own babies. I just wasn't sure if a chicken would sit on a guinea hen eggs, with them being a completely different kind of bird. More research and I've found out that guinea fowl doesn't start laying eggs until May, so I'll have to wait until then to get some. I hate waiting!

 

[NYREDS]

I've hatched Guineas & even ducks under chickens. The notion that they care about the colour of eggs is nonsense.

 

[darkmatter]

Yes, broody chickens will hatch out Guinea eggs, I've done it several times, however---------in the Midwest when Guineas hatch out their own eggs, the keets will die of hypothermia within a couple days due to the dew (without fail). When the chickens hatch out keets the hen will take the keets under wing to keep them warm and can be successful in raising them, but the keets do not have the same instinct as a chick for when Mama hen is scratching up grubs, watch closely, you will see the chicks stay out from under the mama's scratching feet until mama calls them to eat the scratch up. The keets don't stay out from under the scratching feet and will get scratched up and rolled to the point of death quite often.
I've had better success with the incubator, placing the Guinea eggs (28 days) on for a week, then adding Chicken eggs (21 days) so as to have them all hatch together and raise them together.

 

[IggiMom]

Yes, the Guinea eggs take longer to hatch, so I would try to have them all hatch together, or only put Guinea eggs under her.

And there is always the chance that she would get tired of waiting and leave the nest, but probably not.

Catherine