{"id":632,"date":"2013-01-22T16:20:36","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T08:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=632"},"modified":"2013-01-22T16:22:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T08:22:00","slug":"more-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/22\/more-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"More Babies !!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013-01-22-10.21.05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-641\" alt=\"2013-01-22 10.21.05\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013-01-22-10.21.05-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013-01-22-10.21.05-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013-01-22-10.21.05.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I thought 2 more Guinea Fowl had been taken by foxes, as there were only 4 out and about yesterday. \u00a0I heard a ruckus in the evening and saw one hurrying across the paddock at dusk, so realised she must be sitting on a nest. \u00a0I watched the birds this morning to know where to look and saw a male standing guard under a big tree. \u00a0Sure enough Mama was sitting on her eggs tucked behind a rock. \u00a0She was very protective and fluffed herself up and hissed at me when I approached. When she got off I could see a good clutch of 14, \u00a0and 3 chicken eggs! She kept attacking as I collected the eggs, and may have been the exception to the rule about Guinea Fowl not being good sitters. Unfortunately, I couldn&#8217;t leave her as that is how we have lost other guinea fowl to the foxes, they are so vulnerable nesting on the ground. \u00a0We only have 2 adult females left and I couldn&#8217;t risk losing her too. \u00a0The eggs are all in the incubator now and hopefully we will get another 10-12 survivors in 4 weeks. \u00a0The standard incubation period is 28 days at 37.2 &#8211; 37.5 degrees C and 50-60% humidity. \u00a0The eggs should be turned an odd number of times each day so that overnight they are lying a different way so the embryo doesn&#8217;t stick to the walls. \u00a0This is the most <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.backyardpoultry.com\/viewtopic.php?t=7956908\" target=\"_blank\">amazing set of pictures showing the development of embryo to chicken<\/a> &#8211; the guinea fowls take an extra 7 days, but I am sure it is similar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought 2 more Guinea Fowl had been taken by foxes, as there were only 4 out and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,11,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-farm","category-guinea-fowl","category-not-so-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013-01-22-10.21.24.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":645,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions\/645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}