One has survived and is looking good the other has hatched but doesn't look like it will make it.
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| Author: | fancythat [ Sun Mar 02, 2014 6:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Is this a record or common |
I found a couple of GF eggs in my chook house and decided to leave them there in case they laid more, anyway they sat in the straw in the chook house for 6 weeks with the laying hens (chickens) hoping off and on to lay their eggs in the same nest. I finally bought an incubator and put them in there along with 8 other chook eggs, the chook chicks hatched on Tuesday and guess what one GF has hatched so far and the other looks like it might too. During the 6 weeks they were in the chook house we had some bloody hot days including several 40+, it is hot enough here in SE Qld as it is. How is it possible they were viable, these are my first ever keets that I have hatched so pretty stoked and hope the little tackers survive. I have just had some bantams hens hatch some babies so I am going to try and sneak the keet in tonight along with another bantam that hatched in the incubator too. |
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| Author: | CinnGuinea [ Mon Mar 03, 2014 8:48 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Is this a record or common |
Yep its quite common but you will find the egg/s that hatch will be the last laid so they are the 'freshest' of the lot. Guineas eggs are very unique and not like any other fowl |
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| Author: | PeepGuineafowl [ Mon Mar 03, 2014 5:19 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Is this a record or common |
I have hatched eggs 4-5 weeks old from guineas because the shell is very different to chooks ect... they last MUCH longer |
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| Author: | fancythat [ Mon Mar 03, 2014 5:23 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Is this a record or common |
One has survived and is looking good the other has hatched but doesn't look like it will make it.
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| Author: | Bund9 [ Tue Mar 04, 2014 8:13 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Is this a record or common |
Whats the longest you can keep the eggs for |
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| Author: | guineafowl [ Wed Mar 05, 2014 11:05 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Is this a record or common |
Yes I have heard of eggs being set 2 months after laid and yep they hatched |
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