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Very cool, I REALLY wanted a few whites this year, the local person I got my eggs from only has two hens (one white and one regular) a well as a white male and a few regular males, so obviously statistics said I should have got a few whites as I took every egg from both hens this season and as...

Tree rats will indeed kill/eat small birds if the opportunity arises and they are hungry...

Sperm can stay viable in the hen for 3-4 weeks, when did you cock pass? If it was last last month the eggs might be viable even though you are pushing the limits...

LOL, my teacher chicken had done admirably for the last few months but he/she is now sprouting like a bean, and it's time for change... The job has been handed off to a Guinea keet as of this week...

I'm in the same boat, none of my guineas took the full 28 days this year, all hatched a day or two early and they were always put in the incubator with a batch of pea eggs at the same time, the peas have been dead accurate at 28 days and chickens at 21 days in the same incubator... Temp is as...

2 possibly 3 years old to breed in general...

Bummer to hear about the power outage, it's something that has had me worried this year as well... Our generator needs a tune up and I have been procrastinating so I can't depend on it starting and running right now, I really need to stop procrastinating maybe that will be today's project...

I really wasn't expecting any color variations this year besides hoping for a white when I got my eggs... The person I got my eggs from had a pair of whites and some pairs of regular blues all in a common area so luck of the draw on knowing who the parents are, and no known genetic history...

Just remember you are measuring air temp, air temp fluctuates very fast and very easy, the highs and lows in the air temp swing you are measuring are not really reflective of the eggs internal temp... Also if that thermometer is like mine it only has a few small vents in the back that allow...

I can't get the higher protein 'game' or 'turkey' starter locally so I feed mine medicated chick starter mixed with 1 cup of brewers yeast per 5 lbs of chick feed... The yeast bumps the protein and vitamin levels up closer to a game bird starter, and they seem to love the taste... The specific...

A few outdoor pics of the fuzz buckets...

Up to 3 or 4 weeks, but the vitality will usually start to drop much sooner... If I was rotating a male though multiple females I would let them have their night day together every 7-10 days, that way even if they don't 'do it' one time the vitality clocks will overlap, and in theory they will...

@KsKingBee Sorry to hear things are not going smooth... My second clutch of 4 pea eggs is hatching right now, one bird just zipped out about 10 minutes ago, 2 others are pipped... One has not done anything, I'll candle that one later tonight when I pull the hatched chick out, it might be my...

So far I have been having good luck with weekly (give or take) collected pea eggs... The only obvious difference from you is my humidity levels in the incubator are higher... I average give or take 35-45%, but since I have mixed batch eggs in my incubator there is faux lock downs where I bump...

The short of it I don't do a lock down, the lock down is mostly to keep humidity up and I work around that by alternative means... First, I separate the clutch of eggs due to hatch into a little segregated area of the incubator 3 days before hatch so that I know what ones to stop turning and...

Newbie here... After recently moving onto a 'farm' where I can once again have 'farm' animals after 20 years of living in neighborhoods but growing up on a hobby farm, I really wanted to get a some peafowl again... But, after hitting up a few local livestock swaps and looking around online I...