She is still sitting on the nest, I can still hear peeping, but she is also coming off just long enough to take the older ones over to eat and drink and then back again to the nest. so I will give her another day and then pull the rest of the eggs. We appear to have one weak keet, but it could be young or ? and the rest seem perfect.
Just another Day on the Farm 
They are super cute! JOI is the ratio of hatched to unhatched eggs always that large?
LOL, don’t know, its my first hatch with this breed of birds, I would normally say no for other hens but I have never seen such a large clutch under one female before. Time will give me that answer.
What kind of a bird is a “Keet”?
Baby Guinea Fowl 🙂
That is a lot of eggs under one bird! Is that a species thing? Just out of curiosity, how many eggs do your chickens hens usually set? I realize this isnt a chicken hen in this post.
Hi, yes, very much a lot of eggs, huge clutch, the hens normally sit a dozen to 18, the duck hens typically do 14 to 16, but the guinea hens are sitting on around 40 each.. crazy amount of eggs.
Very cute! Their feet look so big for their bodies.
they are adoreable for sure
Just what I was thinking (SUPER cute) and wondering… I see 10 hatchlings/23 intact eggs? Hoooleee smoke! Was this all from one hen… Or were they sharing?
26 have hatched so far out of 41 counted eggs, I thought it was from both hens but now the second hen is sitting on her own clutch so not sure anymore, the books say they will lay in the same nest, so most likely in this one, both hens helped in creating it.
Well, you certainly wouldn’t have a shortage (of keets) even if you did harvest some for the house…
ANAZING birds!