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I am working on that, too. Though I am happy to get any white on my Bronze so i am working on the white eye, as well as the pied. I am not a silver pied lover but will get some of those in my breeding project, I bet. Good luck!

You always want to work on making them look like basketballs. A nice round shape to the body. Sometimes in teh juvenile stage they look like crap but if they were nice as a youngster you can wait out the juvie ugly stage and at around a year old or so you will get that basketball look again. If...

Muscovy girls have shorter beaks and rounder heads, smaller feet. The tails will be shorter on girls, too. Looks like you have a pair.

I can fix it on a new chick but if it is over 3 days old I never have success. I put one down this year that I could not get fixed and it was so bad I knew it would not live a decent life but i had kept trying until it was 6 weeks old. Just really sad. I am working on another one now and fear it...

I have made a sling in a cup like an X and dropped them down into it for a day or two so the legs are dangling. Sometimes they do good and other times not.

Yes, I agree.

I had 9 breeding pens this year and for the past 5 years have been breeding and hatching peafowl. I never make any profit, even when selling as week old chicks. I rarely sell eggs unless picked up. Shipped peafowl eggs are iffy and I prefer the buyer to be happy rather than mad or frustrated...

I never put my pea chicks on the ground. I have raised chickens for a good many years and have lost a few turkeys in the past due to blackhead so now all peafowl are raised in brooders and then wire bottom pens until at least 6 months old. I have lost only one in the last 5 years of raising them...

Congrats on the microscope purchase! Easy to do. Parasitology was my favorite as a vet tech, though I ran the entire lab, as well as being head tech, office manager and ran the adjoining boarding kennel. Almost 20 years and I finally burned out but carry the experience with me here on the farm...

Such gorgeous babies! Nothing more fun than catching up with you all on what has hatched and is growing up! I still have pea chicks hatching out and have set a few eggs this week, too. Most of my boys have dropped their trains but I have 3 boys still holding on. I am sure by the end of this...

My best hatches come from under my bantam Cochins and Silkies. I have hatched close to 60 chicks this summer with most of them hatching under my chickens. I do not let them raise them due to snakes, cats, hawks or any other harmful craziness that would befall them so i brooder raise but my birds...

That alotta birds!! :eek:

So many beautiful babies! I just adore them! Looking through your photos makes me realize I am not the only one loving this hatching season. My first batch of hatched peas are out in the barn in a brooder without lights now. Growing so fast. I need to get a current photo of them. My second...

Awww! They grow so fast!

Yesterday's hatch but I took out of the incubator this morning. Both are from my Opal WE pen but I do have a IB pied hen in that pen so I am thinking the white chick is from her.

I actually am working on following the pied through chick pattern to adult plumage. So far I have kept one pied peacock from hatch because he had the chick pattern that I hoped would mature into the train I wanted on a pied. I have 2 silver pied peacocks and do not care for the solid white...

The first pea chick this year from my Cameo pen. The mother is actually a Bronze and we had all discussed this last year, if you remember. I was not sure what to do with my Cameo peacock since he is my only Cameo. I have several Bronze hens and was able to use one to breed to him this year so...

I liken the cooling cycle to me opening the incubator every day to retrieve hatched chicks or peas and checking water since I do that manually. I do lose humidity though so i top off the incubator trays with a bit of HOT water to bump it back up quick when I close it. I also candle about once a...

Two more today so far and another one pipped.