The Guinea babies hatched the middle of June. They start out adorable and quickly turn into gangly teenagers, then back to their ugly-adorable full grown selves. They eat tons of bugs - we haven't had a tick yet!
We hatched 10 in the incubator Dave made and put 10 eggs under a broody hen. When our eggs hatched we put the keets under mom and she took over. The hen is "Broody Mama" - she hatched out 3 chicks last year. She is a great mom!
Our Guinea mom decided SHE wanted babies too, so she is sitting on her nest of 20 eggs which are due to hatch the last week of August. Guinea moms typically aren't the best - hopefully she learned something from Broody Mama!
Oh GRILLS, or Girls !! ring the bell & have the Hot Dogs ready !!
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