Guinea Colors - Breeding

Pics
Date sort Score sort
Krazyquilts said:
Cool! I'd love to see pics.
Click to expand...
This is a group produced by a flock of Coral Blues, a Lavender, a Chocolate, a Powder Blue, a Royal Purple and a Sky Blue guinea.
full

Violet keet
full

Royal Purple keet
full

Adult Royal Purple hen
full
 
Between u and the woman I got my keets off of - stick me in your belly! I'm jelly!
Also I'm really thankful you've replied and shared your knowledge! Better a day late for me than never! My neighbor stopped by the other day and he's funny like haha. I was jibbering about my guineas (4 months old and better be adult size!) and I told him about eating them and their edible eggs (I've tasted neither). Well it was about dusk and he was in love with their plumage. I'm all gun ho about letting my other neighbors get a good look at my polish and even petting my silkies (both roosters and "fun" to catch) so I figured I would get my new handy net and scoop one up for him to really get a good look at their ugly beautifulness. Basically they ran around the coop down the adjacent creek and up the road past our barn. This is the furthest they have ever been and it's dusk... well the horse up behind the barn spooked them back down to the side of the barn and I'm like s* I'm gonna loose them all. Forest is directly next to road across from barn and we are predator central. So I get my little scoop of scratch and start shaking. Now my mom has guineas from the same batch and hers make a little racket. When she come to visit she can not believe the noise mine make. It's deafing no lie. Apparently the horses, one behind the barn and two in front hear the feed shaking but the guineas are in high alert looking for a quick escape even though I'm still pretty far from the barn. I do everything I can to show them I got the goods. Only once they stopped squawking did they come running for a snack. It was very stressful for me thinking I would have to hunt 7 down (see my rogue guinea thread). Basically what I'm saying is THANK YOU for your insight about a bell! I'm going to try whistling, it's pretty deafing too lol. Shake the feed and whistle while guineas twerk I do a smooching sound with my chickens and sometimes that's not enough but they are real good about coming home regardless
 
ChiefSuperFly said:
Between u and the woman I got my keets off of - stick me in your belly! I'm jelly!
Also I'm really thankful you've replied and shared your knowledge! Better a day late for me than never! My neighbor stopped by the other day and he's funny like haha. I was jibbering about my guineas (4 months old and better be adult size!) and I told him about eating them and their edible eggs (I've tasted neither). Well it was about dusk and he was in love with their plumage. I'm all gun ho about letting my other neighbors get a good look at my polish and even petting my silkies (both roosters and "fun" to catch) so I figured I would get my new handy net and scoop one up for him to really get a good look at their ugly beautifulness. Basically they ran around the coop down the adjacent creek and up the road past our barn. This is the furthest they have ever been and it's dusk... well the horse up behind the barn spooked them back down to the side of the barn and I'm like s* I'm gonna loose them all. Forest is directly next to road across from barn and we are predator central. So I get my little scoop of scratch and start shaking. Now my mom has guineas from the same batch and hers make a little racket. When she come to visit she can not believe the noise mine make. It's deafing no lie. Apparently the horses, one behind the barn and two in front hear the feed shaking but the guineas are in high alert looking for a quick escape even though I'm still pretty far from the barn. I do everything I can to show them I got the goods. Only once they stopped squawking did they come running for a snack. It was very stressful for me thinking I would have to hunt 7 down (see my rogue guinea thread). Basically what I'm saying is THANK YOU for your insight about a bell! I'm going to try whistling, it's pretty deafing too lol. Shake the feed and whistle while guineas twerk I do a smooching sound with my chickens and sometimes that's not enough but they are real good about coming home regardless
Click to expand...
:lau
I would never try to catch guineas that are outside of an enclosure. When I want to catch any of my guineas, I use a long stick to quietly and patiently herd them into their coop. Once they are in the coop it is still tough to net them but at least they have nowhere to escape.
 
I am learning the hard way! No guru to teach me the ways haha! Before the net I would hand catch them in the run. That was never as fun as it looked I'm sure! I noticed your candler. When do you candle your guinea eggs?
 
ChiefSuperFly said:
I am learning the hard way! No guru to teach me the ways haha! Before the net I would hand catch them in the run. That was never as fun as it looked I'm sure! I noticed your candler. When do you candle your guinea eggs?
Click to expand...
Guinea eggs can take from 26 to 28 days to hatch. Unlike many people, I only candle when I am moving the eggs from the incubator to the hatcher. For guinea eggs that would be either day 24 or day 25 when I candle them and move them to the hatcher.

The only time that I candle eggs under a hen is after the hatch appears to be over so I can remove any unhatched eggs that are not viable.
 
ChiefSuperFly said:
I am learning the hard way! No guru to teach me the ways haha! Before the net I would hand catch them in the run. That was never as fun as it looked I'm sure! I noticed your candler. When do you candle your guinea eggs?
Click to expand...

I am no expert at all I am only on my second attempt at incubating. (1st go round only 3 of the 13 viable eggs hatched and 1 of the keets died at 6 days)
This time I have 30 eggs in the bator and I candled at 10 days because I wanted to prepare myself for disappointment if the majority of them were yolkers. (last batch I had 13 yolkers (50%))
At 10 days this is what I saw:
6 yolkers (I leave these in to work as heat sinks in the case of power outage, we are in a rural area and the power is iffy) I just mark them as N
7 questionable (shells were really thick and I couldn't make out much) left these in as well. and marked with ?mark
17 are fertile and developing. (YAY:fl)
Last night at the end of day 12, I candled the 7 questionable ones and out of those 5 are yolkers and 2 I could see the little embryos swimming in them.
That makes a total of 19 viable, I am just hoping so much that I have a better hatch rate this time. The wait is so hard:barnie
 

Similar threads

G
    • Like
What guinea color is this?
Replies
1
Views
1K
R2elk
R2elk
Ndahly
    • Love
    • Like
Identifying keet colors
Replies
5
Views
1K
Ndahly
Ndahly
ChickenBone23
    • Like
White keets, color question
Replies
3
Views
1K
R2elk
R2elk
Cedarview
    • Love
Identifying colours
Replies
1
Views
808
R2elk
R2elk
J
HELP Guinea fowl still not walking??
Replies
5
Views
783
JST
J

New posts New threads Active threads

Back
Top Bottom