Incubator problem - NONE of our 2nd batch of guine eggs are hatching!

Soundguy · Jun 20, 2012

got any gatorade? might pep him up...

MossflowerWoods · Jun 20, 2012

As I was driving to work my girls went to give him some sugar water and it was too late. PB was gone...

All 6 failed to thrive...

David

Soundguy · Jun 21, 2012

sorry to hear that.

MossflowerWoods · Jun 21, 2012

Soundguy said:
sorry to hear that.

Me too... 15 hatched out of 2 batches, only 3 are left 5 weeks later...

I've learned how to hobble for spraddle, and I'm going to put down newspaper topped with sawdust and a metal fabric atop that on the brooder next time for Spraddle. I'm going to increase the humidity for the entire time, and I'm going to monitor the dryness and heat in the "brooder location" better.

I'm also just going to buy some 1 day old keets from a pro hatchery as well, and hope I get a broody hen...

Painful lessons...

David