Hatching Guinea Eggs

[Alan]

So I bought a little incubator recently, nothing particularly nice, but I think I can make it work and I went ahead and bought 18 guinea eggs to experiement with. Going on day two and temps and humidity are stable! I'll be happy as can be if I get even six to hatch!

[michaeljohnson]

Ever tried eating Guinea eggs, they are very difficult to crack with a spoon when boiled, and also require several sharp strikes on the edge of a frying pan if you try to fry them ;D.

The one thing about Guineas that is outstanding though is that they make the best watch dogs in the world- a small flock of Guineas in your yard or premises and they let you know the minute anyone strange comes onto you property-you can hear them from quite a distance away, the only other birds that come even close to Guineas for being good guard dogs are Geese which set off a hollering as soon as you set one foot in the place.

But Guineas are ultra sharp, and kick up such a racket it's almost impossible to ignore them.

[Alan]

I have yet to try and eat a guinea egg, but have heard much about the experience and will probably give them a go next season. I bought six guineas from some fellow market gardeners (the same folks I got the Nicholson's yellow cherry beefsteak tomatoes from by the way) and I love them, they have another guinea setting right now and presuming they get a good hatch I'll probably by 10 more or so off of them. Right now there are 18 eggs on day 10 in the incubator, we shall see how those turn out, I'm very excited!

[canadamike]

You might be less excited once its time to butcher them On the other hand, you'll loose some belly running after them ;D ;D ;D ;D

[michaeljohnson]

And more belly -when you try to catch them ;D as they are absolute buggers to catch