Comments on: Incubating Guinea Fowl Eggs http://farmingfriends.com/incubating-guinea-fowl-eggs/ Meet the animals and harvest the information without getting your hands dirty! Thu, 17 May 2012 20:40:47 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: sara http://farmingfriends.com/incubating-guinea-fowl-eggs/comment-page-1/#comment-1041 sara Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:04:38 +0000 http://farmingfriends.com/?p=866#comment-1041 Hi Carole, Thanks for visiting farmingfriends and sorry to hear that your guinea fowl keets are not making it. A disease to watch out for is coccidiosis which can kill keets. Here is some info about it http://www.farmingfriends.com/coccidiosis-in-guinea-fowl/ Symptoms include: Ruffled feathers. Unthriftiness. Head drawn back into shoulders. A chilled appearance. Thirsty. Milky white diarrhea which may have blood in it. If not treated can lead to mortality. Die at night. You can get medication from vets for coccidiosis. Some feed has coccidistats in feed to help prevent it. Some say cider apple vinegar can help http://farmingfriends.com/does-cider-apple-vinegar-help-prevent-or-cure-coccidiosis/ or milk http://farmingfriends.com/using-milk-to-treat-coccidiosis/ If you are vets aren't too expensive then you could take one of the dead keets for a post mortem so that you can find out for certain what they have. I did this with a quail and it only cost £17. Hope your remaining keets are ok. Let me know how they progress. Just to let you know that I have a free forum with a section on guinea fowl which may be of interest. http://farmingfriends.com/forums/forum.php?id=6 Kind regards Sara @ farmingfriends Hi Carole,
Thanks for visiting farmingfriends and sorry to hear that your guinea fowl keets are not making it.
A disease to watch out for is coccidiosis which can kill keets. Here is some info about it
http://www.farmingfriends.com/coccidiosis-in-guinea-fowl/
Symptoms include:
Ruffled feathers.
Unthriftiness.
Head drawn back into shoulders.
A chilled appearance.
Thirsty.
Milky white diarrhea which may have blood in it.
If not treated can lead to mortality.
Die at night.

You can get medication from vets for coccidiosis. Some feed has coccidistats in feed to help prevent it. Some say cider apple vinegar can help http://farmingfriends.com/does-cider-apple-vinegar-help-prevent-or-cure-coccidiosis/ or milk http://farmingfriends.com/using-milk-to-treat-coccidiosis/

If you are vets aren’t too expensive then you could take one of the dead keets for a post mortem so that you can find out for certain what they have. I did this with a quail and it only cost £17.

Hope your remaining keets are ok. Let me know how they progress.

Just to let you know that I have a free forum with a section on guinea fowl which may be of interest. http://farmingfriends.com/forums/forum.php?id=6

Kind regards
Sara @ farmingfriends

]]> By: carole http://farmingfriends.com/incubating-guinea-fowl-eggs/comment-page-1/#comment-1035 carole Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:52:15 +0000 http://farmingfriends.com/?p=866#comment-1035 Hi there I have no trouble hatching guinea eggs but I can't keep the keets alive more than a couple of weeks. They get good wing feathers, are very active but just seem to lie down and die after having a "posture" problem. They are in with some hens chicks that are a bit older and seem to see them as "mum" but I just don't know what is wrong. Any assistance would be much appreciated as it's very dis-spiriting when they die. Carole Hi there

I have no trouble hatching guinea eggs but I can’t keep the keets alive more than a couple of weeks. They get good wing feathers, are very active but just seem to lie down and die after having a “posture” problem. They are in with some hens chicks that are a bit older and seem to see them as “mum” but I just don’t know what is wrong. Any assistance would be much appreciated as it’s very dis-spiriting when they die.

Carole

]]> By: Virginia http://farmingfriends.com/incubating-guinea-fowl-eggs/comment-page-1/#comment-888 Virginia Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:41:08 +0000 http://farmingfriends.com/?p=866#comment-888 Hi i am a hobby farmer and i am trying to hatch guinea fowls, I would like to ask a few questions. I am getting mixed information on the temp for incubator hatching. I also hatch chickens in the same incubator is this going to affect the guinea fowls? When candling am I looking for veins, or some sort of spot?? When is the best time to put the keets into a roost?? Also how should i care for the aggs while they are being collected and I am waiting for the rest to be layed since I only have a few hens?? Any information that you can think of that will help and would be most appreciated. Thank you for your time. Virginia Hi i am a hobby farmer and i am trying to hatch guinea fowls, I would like to ask a few questions. I am getting mixed information on the temp for incubator hatching. I also hatch chickens in the same incubator is this going to affect the guinea fowls? When candling am I looking for veins, or some sort of spot?? When is the best time to put the keets into a roost?? Also how should i care for the aggs while they are being collected and I am waiting for the rest to be layed since I only have a few hens?? Any information that you can think of that will help and would be most appreciated. Thank you for your time.

Virginia

]]> By: sara http://farmingfriends.com/incubating-guinea-fowl-eggs/comment-page-1/#comment-855 sara Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:00:20 +0000 http://farmingfriends.com/?p=866#comment-855 Hi Sydney, Thanks for your question about guinea fowl sitting on eggs. I was under the impression that hens can tell if the eggs are fertile as they can feel movement in the latter stages of incubation, but I could be wrong. I wonder if the eggs that she is sititng on are the hens, maybe you can move the guinea hen abit to see as I know from experience it takes alot to disturb a guinea fowl hen once she has gone broody so just lifting up her feathers to see the eggs may not disturb her, but I would use a long stick to do this as she may be aggressive and the peck of a broody guinea fowl hurts! Any eggs that your guinea fowl hen lays are not likely to be fertile if she is not running with any guinea fowl and you say that her mate died 2 months ago which I am sorry to hear. I posted your question on my forum here http://farmingfriends.com/forums/topic.php?id=190 and one of the members Sarah posted a reply. My ducks definitley sorted out was was good and what wasn't. They put the unviable ones under the straw as if they were burying them and left them to go cold. Being their first brood, they did unfortunately leave two eggs in the nest that had gone off, but i think that may be because they laid so many in the first place. None of the eggs they discarded were viable. Sarah L Hope this helps. Let us know how she gets on. Kind regards sara @ farmingfriends Hi Sydney,
Thanks for your question about guinea fowl sitting on eggs. I was under the impression that hens can tell if the eggs are fertile as they can feel movement in the latter stages of incubation, but I could be wrong.

I wonder if the eggs that she is sititng on are the hens, maybe you can move the guinea hen abit to see as I know from experience it takes alot to disturb a guinea fowl hen once she has gone broody so just lifting up her feathers to see the eggs may not disturb her, but I would use a long stick to do this as she may be aggressive and the peck of a broody guinea fowl hurts!

Any eggs that your guinea fowl hen lays are not likely to be fertile if she is not running with any guinea fowl and you say that her mate died 2 months ago which I am sorry to hear.

I posted your question on my forum here http://farmingfriends.com/forums/topic.php?id=190 and one of the members Sarah posted a reply. My ducks definitley sorted out was was good and what wasn’t. They put the unviable ones under the straw as if they were burying them and left them to go cold. Being their first brood, they did unfortunately leave two eggs in the nest that had gone off, but i think that may be because they laid so many in the first place. None of the eggs they discarded were viable. Sarah L
Hope this helps. Let us know how she gets on.

Kind regards
sara @ farmingfriends

]]> By: Sydney http://farmingfriends.com/incubating-guinea-fowl-eggs/comment-page-1/#comment-832 Sydney Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:56:11 +0000 http://farmingfriends.com/?p=866#comment-832 My guinea fowl's mate died about two months ago, but she's been laying on eggs for a few weeks now. Would she be able to tell if her eggs were infertile? We also have chickens, is it possible she could have taken over one of their nests? My guinea fowl’s mate died about two months ago, but she’s been laying on eggs for a few weeks now. Would she be able to tell if her eggs were infertile? We also have chickens, is it possible she could have taken over one of their nests?

]]> By: Michael O'Riordan http://farmingfriends.com/incubating-guinea-fowl-eggs/comment-page-1/#comment-743 Michael O'Riordan Sun, 21 Jun 2009 07:30:04 +0000 http://farmingfriends.com/?p=866#comment-743 I have just obtained some Guinea Fowl eggs to put in my Brinsea octagon incubator. It does not control humidity but does turn automatically. It seems to work well with chickens - not quite so well with ducks. I am now trying Guinea Fowl. I have seen various websites siting a range of temperatures - one says 100.5F works best, another suggests 37.5C for the first 14 days and then 37.65 for the next 14 days and then reducing to 37.3 for hatching. The guy I bought my eggs from uses a hatchery near by (very old large scale incubator) where he takes all his eggs - duck, geese, turkey and guinea fowl. The temperature is the same for all - only the time to hatch varies. His Guinea Fowl take 33 days - not the 24-26 the book says. Now this is Malaysia where humidity is high and outside temperature is high also. He also says his Muscovy ducks hatch in about 30 days not the 35. he has been doing this for 4 years and he has not had many problems - Guinea Fowl and Muscovy around 80% - only geese a bit low at 60%. My eggs go in tonight, initially at 37.5C, but I would be most grateful for any further advice I have just obtained some Guinea Fowl eggs to put in my Brinsea octagon incubator. It does not control humidity but does turn automatically. It seems to work well with chickens – not quite so well with ducks. I am now trying Guinea Fowl. I have seen various websites siting a range of temperatures – one says 100.5F works best, another suggests 37.5C for the first 14 days and then 37.65 for the next 14 days and then reducing to 37.3 for hatching. The guy I bought my eggs from uses a hatchery near by (very old large scale incubator) where he takes all his eggs – duck, geese, turkey and guinea fowl. The temperature is the same for all – only the time to hatch varies. His Guinea Fowl take 33 days – not the 24-26 the book says.

Now this is Malaysia where humidity is high and outside temperature is high also. He also says his Muscovy ducks hatch in about 30 days not the 35. he has been doing this for 4 years and he has not had many problems – Guinea Fowl and Muscovy around 80% – only geese a bit low at 60%.

My eggs go in tonight, initially at 37.5C, but I would be most grateful for any further advice

]]> By: sara http://farmingfriends.com/incubating-guinea-fowl-eggs/comment-page-1/#comment-722 sara Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:58:01 +0000 http://farmingfriends.com/?p=866#comment-722 Hi Muriel, Thanks for this advice. I have heard others say that they have lost guinea fowl keets under a hen. Glad to hear that 11 out of 13 are doing fine. Guinea fowl keets love shredded lettuce and prefer their water to be warm. I put marbles in the drinker so that they don't get their head in and drown. Let me know how your guinea fowl keets progress. Just to let you know that I have a free guinea fowl forum where guinea fowl enthusiasts chat about their guinea fowl and share tips and advice. http://farmingfriends.com/forums/forum.php?id=6 kind regards Sara @ farmingfriends Hi Muriel,
Thanks for this advice. I have heard others say that they have lost guinea fowl keets under a hen. Glad to hear that 11 out of 13 are doing fine. Guinea fowl keets love shredded lettuce and prefer their water to be warm. I put marbles in the drinker so that they don’t get their head in and drown.
Let me know how your guinea fowl keets progress. Just to let you know that I have a free guinea fowl forum where guinea fowl enthusiasts chat about their guinea fowl and share tips and advice. http://farmingfriends.com/forums/forum.php?id=6
kind regards
Sara @ farmingfriends

]]> By: muriel http://farmingfriends.com/incubating-guinea-fowl-eggs/comment-page-1/#comment-719 muriel Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:54:54 +0000 http://farmingfriends.com/?p=866#comment-719 i had a broody hen sitting on my guinea eggs. i found its best to remove them after they have dried. she was either crushing them because they are smaller or they just could not breath. but i did get 11 out 13 that are doing fine. i had a broody hen sitting on my guinea eggs. i found its best to remove them after they have dried. she was either crushing them because they are smaller or they just could not breath. but i did get 11 out 13 that are doing fine.

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