Uh oh... found an egg today! ... - A journal of sorts, from finding eggs to hatching them... Update

[JLeigh]

daylily - keeping my fingers crossed for you. I won't have access to a computer for a couple of days (maybe I will though), but I'll be on first thing when I get back to see how your hatch goes. One day six of my eggs looked perfect, the next they went weird on me, and I have a 1588 incubator with egg turner, but shipped eggs. Anything goes.

It's our first hatch. We're just learning, and we gotta hang in there. If we don't get keets this time, we will the next. (But I think we will get a least a couple!)

 

[JLeigh]

I have a hatch in progress, should be done by tomorrow... so far I see mostly Pied Browns, and a few Pied Lavenders, maybe a couple Buffs and I think I saw 1 Royal Purple zipping around in the hatcher. Nothing that I absolutely HAVE to keep from this hatch... so far anyway lol. Just hoping for enough to hatch out to be able to fill my orders!

I keep thinking about that beautiful chocolate guinea you have - (the one in the picture on your website). I think I gotta have some of those. Good luck with your hatches! Can't wait until I have orders to fill.

 

[StevenW.]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-Dozen-Gui...799?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c27831ad7

I LOVE the picture in that auction! So clear and happy healthy birds!
I'm excited! I'm trading some eggs for guinea eggs! Woo! I'm soooo excited! )
Neighbors may not like them but I do!

 

[rosewolf22002]

Ok I know it says it somewhere but I can't find it. boy or girl buckwheats?

 

[JLeigh]

The female "buck-wheats" or some call it "pot-rack". The female can make the one syllable call, like the male. The male will NOT make the two syllable call. I had a 7 month old adult guinea for a few weeks before she made the two syllable sound.

 

[StevenW.]

I always thought they said "Butt-crack" when the females were suppose to say "Buck-wheat."

 

[TarheelBirdy]

I always thought they said "Butt-crack" when the females were suppose to say "Buck-wheat."

Our females say buttcrack.

 

[JLeigh]

That's a variation of "pot-rack". ("butt-crack"...lol.

)

 

[daylily]

I've got one white one that "come-back" calls for two hours solid before she lays an egg. The other pied pearl says nothing , but when she did her voice was much lower in pitch and gravelly, so she sounded like she said the "buck wheat" Or "butts sweet". The neighbors just call it the rusty swing sound. LOL

 

[scheelgrl]

Peeps! I wanted to share my new keetsies with you! She gave me a freebie with a wry neck tho, any suggestions on hepping this little guy out?