Anyone know anything about raising guineas? If the hen lays one egg a day, will they all keep til she sets?

i raise guineas, (the bird not the ones with a uterus) haha, and if you want your guinea to go broody you should always leave her with eggs. once they set they generally won't lay anymore eggs stock piling the energy for when they don't leave their nest. i have always found them to be decent mothers so i wouldn't worry about taking away her babies. if you have many hens then sometimes they will use one nest so not all hatched babies will be hers. eggs should last about 7-10 days so anything thing older than that i'd remove or they can explode which is pretty horrid! but all birds can be unpredictable as to when they set so ya never know. i have a leghorn who raised 3 group of chicks this year she had at least 5-7 guineas in her little brood pretty funny. for my guineas i allow 10 eggs per hen to set any more and it's too much.

This answer is based off of my readings and observations of our "pod" of about 20 guineas.

No, you won't want to let the eggs lay there in the nest because they will spoil before the hen decides to go broody. You might as well use the eggs as the hens lay them. Trust me, the hen doesn't need you to build up her nest collection. When she is ready to become a mother she can build up her egg collection herself!

When the hen IS ready to be a mother she will mass produce eggs. I'm not exactly sure how many she'll lay per day while broody but our hend had about 15 eggs within five days when she went broody.

Guinea hens are terrible mothers. The hen, for all her good intentions, cannot raise the keets. You have to get a box, heating lamp and much more. You will need a corner of a room in your house or garage if it can stay hot enough. We have raised two sets of guinea keets and they are demanding, skittish, sweet little critters. They require much work, they have to stay under a heating lamp for much longer than baby chickens. And they have a funky scent, so you better have a room in your house that you don't mind smelling.

I suggest you go to your library or start searching google on how exactly to raise these birds. A message board cannot provide you with the depth of information you will need.

Hope this helps!

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The most important things I can tell you about guinea pigs are:

1. Ensure they have access to fresh grass everyday ( they need this for calcium and as a vet nurse its one of the most common gp problems i see)

2. Either give them a sipper bottle for water or give them fresh pumpkin, corn, lettuce ect everyday so they can get water

3. Must give pumpkin everyday or mix vitamin C powder into their dry food - this is essential as they can not produce Vit C and if they don;t get it they get scurvy and develope sores and hair loss.

If your talking about guinea pigs they do not lay eggs. They deliever just like we do, they had a uterus.