So I've got 3 peafowl eggs in the incy (put in at different times). The oldest one hatched successfully last night all by itself (no helpout from me). It didn't peep any that I could hear while it was in the shell (as my chicken chicks do), but it pipped and then zipped itself all the way out in a 2-hour period. It was bumbling around the incy for an hour, and then I put it under a heat lamp in the brooder. The temp at floor level under the lamp was 99 degrees, so I went to bed (this was around midnight). I woke at 3:30 AM and checked on the chick. Temp under the lamp had risen to 104 degrees. The chick was dead. 
It had a 2-foot radius to move away from the heat, and it'd bumbled around enough that I could see that it was mobile enough to do so.
This was my first peachick hatched in an incy (vs. under a peahen) and I feel like an utter failure. When the chick hatched, it was bright-eyed and vigorous, and when I carried it to the brooder, it moved around in my hand and peeped. It seemed so lively.
My chicken chicks can tolerate small fluctuations in temp under the brooder lamp (I check to try to adjust the lamp height or position if it's not right). Was this fluctuation too much for the peachick? Are they more fragile than chicken chicks? I feel really dumb asking these questions, because I have a feeling some of you are going to say, "Yeah, dummy it was too hot!!"
I feel like a bad peachick mommy. I need to get this right with the other 2 eggs that are due to hatch (I have 5 more eggs under a peahen who is a proven good mommy - she did great last year and raised her babies very lovingly--these incy eggs are from a new peahen who just drops her eggs in any ole spot). I don't want to go through this again. Any advice would be much much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
It had a 2-foot radius to move away from the heat, and it'd bumbled around enough that I could see that it was mobile enough to do so. This was my first peachick hatched in an incy (vs. under a peahen) and I feel like an utter failure. When the chick hatched, it was bright-eyed and vigorous, and when I carried it to the brooder, it moved around in my hand and peeped. It seemed so lively.
My chicken chicks can tolerate small fluctuations in temp under the brooder lamp (I check to try to adjust the lamp height or position if it's not right). Was this fluctuation too much for the peachick? Are they more fragile than chicken chicks? I feel really dumb asking these questions, because I have a feeling some of you are going to say, "Yeah, dummy it was too hot!!"
I feel like a bad peachick mommy. I need to get this right with the other 2 eggs that are due to hatch (I have 5 more eggs under a peahen who is a proven good mommy - she did great last year and raised her babies very lovingly--these incy eggs are from a new peahen who just drops her eggs in any ole spot). I don't want to go through this again. Any advice would be much much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
