My last peachick is on day 30 with no sign of hatching
All others hatched on day 27.
It’s heart is beating strong
It looks underdeveloped
It has always looked different
I’m not sure how long an embryo can survive after a certain time
Anyone out there with any knowledge or thoughts?
Thanks Carol
Edwina is laying eggs now and it is freezing outside. She is free range but tame. She stated laying outside by a calling shed. We tried to tempt her to go inside but that didn’t work so we closed them, her and her two boyfriends Aleth and Clyde, in the corral next to the barn that they usually...
Help! I haven’t heard about this before. This egg is alive but very little movement and no peeping.
I candle it and there seems to be blood haloed near edge of air cell.
Does anyone know what this might be caused from?
I need help trying to decide if his stump looks healthy or not. He doesn’t seem sick or sore and is eating and acting normal.
However, the stump is black and doesn’t seem to have any new skin growing over the stump.
Any ideas or experience with amputated toe?
Thanks, sseabass
Greeting to all the Fowl Farmers out there. My name is Carol and I live in Montana. I am new at hatching out eggs in my incubator. I joined BYC a year ago but I haven't visited this increadible site very often.
I raise sheep and have a few chickens, 1 Peacock, 2 geese, 2 turkeys, 1 guinea, 3...
Hello Peafowl Farmers.
I hatched my first peachicks last year and it was a wonderful adventure of learning, anxiety, joy and then loss. Between feral cats and bad luck I ended up losing all surviving chicks.
I found BYC late in the incubating process and was exstatic. Help was available :weee...
I just hatched out a Java Green Maticus crossed with a White peafowl. I don't know anything about which was hen or cock or if either were also crosses. I was actually trying to get a couple of White eggs and misinterpreted his description.
I am very new at this. She/he is 6 days old now and...
Hi. I just bought a month, month and a half old emu chick. She, I call her she, but realize I won't know that for 2 years or so?
She is not used to people and quite skittish / wild.
I am starting with holding her next to me on a bench. outside.
I keep a good but gentle hold on her feet.
I am...
Help! Does anyone have experience with their Peacock getting aggressive with grown thurkey hens or other larger fowl?
He is about 6 and lost his mate a few years ago. He is free range with a turkey hen, mallard drake, 6 yr. Emu hen, little pig, grown Turkey hen and him, my beautiful, gentle...