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  1. lexgold

    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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    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!!!!!

    These are my first-born pheasant babies. The neat thing is the red golden chick hatched from my first egg of the year! So far all the eggs from my trio have been fertile and are developing in the incubator. I have two more due to hatch on the 13th and six more the week after that! Am very...
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    New hen coughing/sneezing?

    My new Amherst hen started a cough 24 hrs after arriving. She was shivering the first night and now looks fine except for the cough. The male is fine. They were barn kept and my pen is outside with an open fronted coop for shelter. Temps upper 40s at night...60s day. Ideas? Has she caught a chill?
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    Help regarding humidity in Genesis 1588 for pheasants please!

    I have golden pheasant eggs in the incubator. They're at day four. I've read a couple posts on here that indicate higher humidity for pheasants than chickens. I just hatched out bantam chicks at around 35% humidity for the first 18 days and then 65 for the lockdown. I'm trying to get higher...
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    My shipped eggs have weird air sacs with stray air bubbles...

    Just got pheasant eggs in mail. Set one of my own eggs (actually the first one of the season!) alongside them. Just candled after three days to have a quick look and my home grown egg is veining and has a normal air sac. The shipped eggs have air bubbles around the air sac. I only candled a...
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    Two incubators, more eggs on the way! How to hatch please....????

    So I have two incubators and several dozen more eggs coming in the mail and I'm not sure how to do this! I have a still air incubator with eggs at day 12 that I am hand turning... And I have a Genesis 1588 with a fan and egg turner with pheasant eggs that I put in yesterday... I have several...
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    "Gigantor egg"!!! Who thinks it will hatch...?

    My neighbor asked me to hatch some eggs for him and I thought he had a look in his eye... Well sure enough one of the eggs is HUGE...and a very weird shape...like two large ends stuck together... My question is do weird shaped eggs stand a chance? Seems like most of the eggs he gave me are a...
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    Please advise on best method of incubation for pheasants

    I'm gearing up to hatch my first golden pheasant eggs and would appreciate some advice.... My practice hatch on bantam eggs is doing great at day 18...they're kicking away like crazy in there going into lockdown. I am planning on 65% humidity for lockdown and temp holding steady at 101.5 on top...
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    Accidentally cracked an egg...can I leave it in??????

    Last night I took an egg out to candle it and noticed a network of small cracks on the top. The embryo was still good. There are three small yellow fluid bubbles which have dried on outside of the shell and at no point is the shell cracked all the way through. Do I take the egg out or does it...
  11. lexgold

    Air cell question...what am I seeing?

    Just candled some shipped bantam eggs and can see TONS of development and little black embryo dancing around in there at day 8. The lower third of the egg at the pointed end appears clear. Is this the air cell? I thought the air cell was at the top and wanted to see if it was theright size for...
  12. lexgold

    Help me look for peach golden eggs...pretty please?!

    Looking for peach golden eggs. There were some on ebay but I missed the end of the auction and havn't been able to find any since. Even better would be peach chicks or dare I say it adult birds?! Only looking for peach...not the splash. Thanks so much!
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    Yikes...just been told bantam eggs are hard to hatch?True? False?

    Am excited to get my bantam eggs in the mail tomorrow. A local farmer told me he can't get his bantam eggs to hatch but his regular chicken eggs hatch fine. He also said that they are too small to turn properly in the egg turner. I plan to hatch pheasant eggs in the turner. Perhaps his eggs...
  14. lexgold

    First time hatching and NO chicks for me...advice please???!!!

    I have ben receiving help from members as this was my first hatch. Only one of nine eggs developed. The others I threw out at day 18. They were just yolks which I had mistakenly been candling as embryos! I couldn't see if they were fertile or not as the yolks broke when I opened them. On day...
  15. lexgold

    My new birds arrived today in a blizzard...God Bless the Post Office

    Just wanted to share with you how wonderful people can be. My new juvenile red golden males were due to arrive this afternooon in the mail and we are in the middle of a huge snowstorm. Well, at seven am my phone rang. It was Laura from the Post Office telling me my birds had arrived and she...
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    Confused over incubator temperatures...which is right????

    I've already learned a lot from the patient and helpful people on this site during my first hatch! I'm still confused by the differing temperatures recommended for incabation. My Storey's book says 100 to 102.75 degrees. Elsewhere I see 99.5. My Hovabator says 102! I'm just finishing my first...
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    Bought my first red goldens today...is the hen PURE? HELP?

    Have been getting hatching help from the chicken community over on their message board:D Now started my hobby in ornamental pheasants after lots of reading and visiting local farmers etc. Bought two well bred year old males on Eggbid which will be here next week. Today found a wonderful old man...
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    Locked down the eggs and temp has NOSEDIVED and won't go back up! HELP

    Am on my first hatch of nine eggs that were mailed to me and learning so much from you guys. Already threw out five eggs yesterday at day 18 that showed no development. Would have thrown them out earlier but I didn't know what I was looking for! They were just yolks and whites and no smell...
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