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If you hatch 50% of the total number of eggs laid you are doing fantastic. How many eggs laid are you averaging per hen?

I don't think moving the eggs makes any difference at all. My incubator is open at least 5 minutes twice a day and I still get good hatches. One thing I did not mention is that I have been locking down the eggs a day early. That seems to help. Maybe it gives them more time to position. I am...

I know Brad Legg has used cochins before. Around here it seems like game hens are the preferred surrogate mother. In your experience has fertility always been an issue during wet seasons? One of the old hands around here taught me to leave all the hens for the season in a community pen with...

I don't know unless that meant they were just dry. Could it be a response to infection? I would still say that big chick was the result of to high humidity or to low temperature. But if it was the only one in the group? I don't know.

Please let me know if something is contradictory. Wrote the post setting in a chair outside in a hurry. May have mixed something up. Was moving birds.

I don't see excess fluids but that definitely appears to be the typical big sticky chick that cannot hatch for some reason. Maybe they cannot move in the egg.

Slightly lower percentages than the groups reported average.

I edited the post to say two days a week instead of three on the higher percentage.

This, of course, is the most common problem in peafowl hatching. I have been part of a group that has been playing with various incubating and hatching methods the last couple of years and sooner or later there will be some published results (not by me, I am small potatoes). This is the...

Yep. Find an old mercury thermometer before they are all gone!

I might be confused about what you are confused about so lets start from the beginning. You put the egg in an incubator to hatch it. For the first 25 days it is in the incubator truning. At 25 days you stop turning the egg but it stays in the incubator or is placed in the separate hatcher...

To early to tell. In the second picture, that cameo is lighter like a typical hen would be.