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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: Dizzycow on May 07, 2011, 07:35:30 am

Title: Hatching guinea fowl
Post by: Dizzycow on May 07, 2011, 07:35:30 am

Have 20 guinea fowl eggs in the incubator which were due to hatch yesterday. Nothing happened, so I candled them. There is definite activity in the eggs, albeit not a lot, and the eggs aren't really moving and I can't hear any peeping. One of the eggs I candled looked as though it was a late death, but then the contents shifted of their own accord. What is going on? I wouldn't mind, but I have cream legbar eggs waiting to go in, so I'm a bit impatient!

Title: Re: Hatching guinea fowl
Post by: sam.t on May 07, 2011, 07:52:00 am

could be your humidity not correct and they carnt hatch
sam :chook:

Title: Re: Hatching guinea fowl
Post by: Dizzycow on May 07, 2011, 07:55:02 am

Could be, I suppose. I'll increase it. Thanks