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HELP! I have pheasants laying eggs and nobody is setting!!

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I have yellow golden pheasants that are currently laying, not setting.  Last year I tried incubating them with less than desirable results.  I refuse to try artificial incubation again due to the fact that I ended up with several crippled chicks.  Yes, I have heard that is due for the most part to flucuations in humidity and temperature at crucial developmental stages for the chick.  All I have is the foam Hovabator with egg turner, no fan; it does a fair job with chickens but not for the pheasants.  Right now I have nearly 20 eggs and no one to set them; I was depending upon my Silkie hens to be broody, but right now, not even my Silkies are broody. (With the exception of one little black Silkie hen that is setting 2 peafowl eggs!  D  )  What to do?  I keep hoping that one or more of my other Silkie hens will become broody, if I did not want them to be broody, then all of them would want to set!  Any suggestions??  Right now I have the pheasant eggs and 4 more peafowl eggs that I need to set.  Last year, I had several different breeds of hens that hatched out the peafowl for me and I hope to use them to do the same this year.  tongue

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Your Peahens should incubate on their own, and are normally very good "mothers".

Same for Golden.

Are you leaving the eggs with them ?

Are they laying in the same place all the time ?

Your aviary set up so they have their privacy ?

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Aviculture: The Worldwide hobby of keeping and breeding numerous species of wild birds in captivity in order to maintain their normal numerical status in nature with a view to forestalling their extinction by supplying aviary raised stock -- Jean Delacour
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smile  The peahen lays all her eggs in the same nest; I generally will take a few out to let broody hens hatch some for me.  I also let my peahen hatch some out; right now, we have 3 pied, about a year old,(1 female and 2 males) that she hatched out last year.  As for the pheasants, no, they just kinda lay the eggs where-ever and sometimes even in the same nest as the peahen is laying her eggs!  They have plenty of room in their coop; a large loft area that they also lay eggs helter-skelter in. barnie   I have not had much luck with the pheasant hens setting and hatching out their eggs.  I do not want to drag out the incubator; the mamas do a better job than I can!

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Do you have any local BYC friends with a bator or broody.. maybe they could help you out. we've helped a few BYC folks out locally here and hatched there eggs for them.. jumpy

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