so three weeks ago i hatched out 1 peachick he has always been vary active but he has been spoiled he will not eat just chick starter i have to mix hard boiled egg yolk in with it and i think he has only been eating the yolk and last night he stopped eating and drinking and seems to weak to...
one of my peachicks is pipping but it did not pip a hole it is only a crack about one 1/3 around the top of the egg but its only crack should it have made a hole firs this is my second time incubating and none of the others have done this
well this is the second time i have ever incubated eggs and they started hatching this AM just wanted to thank everyone who helped me out last time i was a mess it was a stressful 28 days so i thought i would do it again lol and wouldent you know im freaking out again does it ever get...
i have peafowl i do not eat them but i do know a guy that lives near me has raised them for eating he says the are very much like pheasant or guinea fowl and i have read that they were eaten alot in roman times they even glued the train back on the cooked bird with a type of honey i could...
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i bet yeah my male is for sure a good looker he is actually 15 but i have only had him for eight he came from the neighbors when they hatched some of his offspring and wanted to get rid of him needless to say we couldent say no haha:)
last night my pea chick hatched and is doing well in the brooder however i still have not seen his right eye open all the way is that normal it hatched lastnight around midnight if that matters
its from my male so IB split to blackshoulder it was one of the eggs i told you she was laying in the middle of the pen o and both hens are sitting now:)
well it was my first run at incubating eggs i only had 2 peafowl eggs in a lil giant still air incubator and 1 of them hatched but to be honest i think the second egg was gone about a week ago never the less 1 hatched and is doing great thanks to all who helped me out last night i was a...
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blame it on the peacocks haha i would have thats to bad that you didnt have a good firt impression of peafowl i think they are great but i do agree during mating season they do get vary loud but they are fun to watch
yeah i have heard that the hovabator is really good and i obviously cant complain about the lg the kids got to turn the eggs and see the process but i will take your advice it would have been nice to have an auto turner it kind of limits things when you have to make sure somone is there...
im no expert i just asked that same ? this morning and was told to give it another day or two and wouldnt you know my first one just hatched and this was my first time incubating so from 1 newbie to another just keep waiting its hard trust me i know
i was incubating peafowl that takes 28...
well i have had peafowl for about eight years and never let the hens hatch any eggs but this year the kids talked me into it and i thought it would be fun for all of us to incubate as well as have the hens sit so the kids could see what happens so i just got the lil giant but i might be...
wow thats alot of chicks im just happy mine hatched i havent heard good things about the little giant still air incubator i also was hand turning them as i didnt have an auto turner but just as well it worked i work graveyard and its my weekend so i timed it all right thanks for the...
ok so when its dry do i put him in the brooder im gonna call it a him wow this is exciting but stressful so calm down i have read everything about this i have found and its like i have forgotten it all sorry for being such a mess im a first timer