Re:

[K M Edgar]

Teresa,

Yeah, no harm in mixing them. I'd be inclined to give the guinea eggs
a 10 day head start so they have a few days advantage when the chicks
start to hatch....just my feelings. Keets are a bit more fragile and
smaller so try to even out the playing field.

Difficult to believe the GFIA Board would try to push it that far with
off board friendships. Larry does seem to feel some of the folks are
emailing him less. Not me. Since he's not posting...its natural for
the emails to diminish. He hasn't been feeling well and hasn't posted
on the new Google Group Guinea Fowl Assn. I think he's just tired.

I got 4 guinea eggs in nests today. It looks like I'm gonna average
100 eggs laid/set a month with the 6 guinea hens...perhaps 120 eggs
with 7...135 easy with 8 guineas. I'm adding a hen tomorrow...a 1/2
sibling to my Porcelain roo.

Take care.

Kelly

--
a Message from "Guinea Fowl Assn of America" your personal guinea friends group

[Teresa (tree) NW VA]

Kelly,
It works ok to start the guinea eggs early, as you noted, then add
chicken eggs later, especially since there's a difference in
incubation times, but I don't want to run the risk of losing keets due
to the cool down of the incubator from the chicken eggs being added.
Easier for me to hatch them separately.
I thought my Silkie was finally ready to get with the program last
evening as she parked on her little stash (of eggs I'd originally
refrigerated before putting them back in the nest to entice her)
instead of roosting .. but she laid another egg this morning & hopped
back out. Oh well .. soon as the incubator temp is stabilized, all
eggs are going in there. That'll work out well, with the hatch on
Memorial Day weekend.

Teresa

> Yeah, no harm in mixing them.  I'd be inclined to give the guinea eggs
> a 10 day head start so they have a few days advantage when the chicks
> start to hatch....just my feelings.  Keets are a bit more fragile and
> smaller so try to even out the playing field.