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    Advice please.Shipped eggs 10% hatch rate/my golden pheasant eggs 95%!

    So I had a mixed first year in pheasants. Almost all of my own red golden eggs hatched. Of the four sets of shipped eggs I got just four hatched and only two of the chicks made it. Only some of the shipped eggs developed. They developed up until almost hatch day and then the chicks died in...
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    this was my last try

    I had almost a hundred percent hatch rate on my own pheasants, and about five percent hatch rate on shipped eggs! If you are hatching your own don't give up. use an incubator with a fan and get the humidity fifty percent for the first 21 days and sixty five percent for the hatch. My shipped eggs...
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    Found a neat way to stop new chicks playing hockey with hatching eggs!

    I'm now three more hatches down the road and have had 100% hatch rate on my own eggs. Still using the trays but didn't bother with the grippy stuff...they seemed to do fine on the wire floor. Like the idea of the cup of water...guess you could put marbles or rocks in it so they can't drown...
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    Pics of my newly hatched golden pheasants! Thanks BYC-ers!!!!!

    Well, 'old chicken lady', I started in pheasants this winter and now have three pens of adult birds, 17 chicks and more in the incubator., Basically you just enjoy them for their beauty and their company and yes, you can eat the eggs!
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    Pictures of Pheasant Housing/Run

    "stuck in the city" the trees that look like Christmas trees are hemlock branches that I swtich out every month or so when the needles drop off... "sgt dane" wow, those pictures of yours look so similar to my pens...using the natural trees is really fun and gives plenty of shade...
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    Pics of my newly hatched golden pheasants! Thanks BYC-ers!!!!!

    Well here's a question...six more red goldens hatched today and one is buff colored...completely different from the others which are stripey yellow and dark brown? All twelve previous chicks from my trio were the same color!!!!
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    Pics of my newly hatched golden pheasants! Thanks BYC-ers!!!!!

    Two week old pheasant baby doing his speed skating impression!
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    Pictures of Pheasant Housing/Run

    these are my pens that my husband helped me design and build this spring.
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    wondering what when wrong

    hey, I saw your post on the pheasant page. Good luck. For pheasant eggs (golden) mine went 23/24 days and the humidity was supposed to be 50 percent for the first 21 days and then 65.
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    11 of 12 developing

    good luck! I had a shaky start but now have hatched all my last three batches! It's amazing how quick you lern. Tonight I had three new babies and there should be two more out by morning. Enjoy!
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    Pics of my newly hatched golden pheasants! Thanks BYC-ers!!!!!

    Thankyou. I have five out of five hatching! Three are out and two are almost out. Very pleased. Gotta love the Gensesis with the fan...
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    Found a neat way to stop new chicks playing hockey with hatching eggs!

    Well it's working again. Just hatched three chicks and the other two are pipped! Am going to line the baskets with the grippy drawer liner stuff too. The first two chicks jumped out of the pens within hous of hatching, but the one that didn't is slipping and sliding in there a little. I hatched...
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    Found a neat way to stop new chicks playing hockey with hatching eggs!

    My connection is slow so sorry for not posting pictures. Have been experimenting with using little plastic baskets from the dollar store to put my pheasant eggs in to stop them getting rolled around during the hatch. So far they are working great! They are three inches wide, six inches long and...
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    Pics of my newly hatched golden pheasants! Thanks BYC-ers!!!!!

    Well first the sad news, the peach golden baby died. He was very weak. But, I now have two newly hatched red goldens and six more due to hatch this week. So far three out of three of my own birds hatched!
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    Pics of my newly hatched golden pheasants! Thanks BYC-ers!!!!!

    My Peach golden has been hanging by a thread...I have to put him back on his feet all the time. The red golden is so tough!!!!
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