Exactly what the title says. As the hatching day for our eggs approaches I get more and more anxious and I want to be as prepared as possible. Are there any complications I should look out for during hatching? When the keets hatch should we return them to the mother or should we place them in a brooder or do something completely different? Literally any advice at all would be tremendously helpful and appreciated!
This is my (and probably my family’s as well) first time incubating eggs at all, but especially guinea eggs. Last week I discovered one of our guineas was sitting on a nest of a total of 45 eggs and my grandpa decided to buy an incubator for them. The incubator is a Nurture Right 360 incubator. All the eggs have been incubating since the 24th (22 in the incubator and the rest under the hen) and so far everything seems to be going smoothly, but I want to ask for advice anyway since I googled guineafowl egg incubation and each website said something different with the only consistency being how long it takes for the eggs to incubate.
Will the default settings on the Nurture Right 360 incubator work or do I need to change them? How often do the eggs need to be turned daily? And what should we do once the eggs hatch? I feel stupid for asking, but this is my first time and probably the rest of my family’s first time too 😅
Any information would be greatly appreciated!
Edit before I forget again: The default settings for the Nurture Right 360 incubator are 99.5°F, 50% humidity, and it’s supposed to stop incubation 3 days before hatching. It also has an auto turning feature that I tried turning on but I’m almost never in the room so I don’t know if it turns them automatically or not so I turn them myself to be safe. What should the temperature be and what should the humidity be?