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  1. Nakihunter

    Help! My Pheasant Isn't Doing Anything!!!! CAN'T WALK!!

    My ring necks are 9 weeks old. Today a healthy male was falling over and kicking on the ground unable to get up. I picked it up and it was strong and screaming. When i put hi. Down he wobbled around ran bit unsteady bumped into things and tipped over again. I am concerned. Please help...
  2. Nakihunter

    What is the best thermometer to use in your incubator!!!!

    Yup. I was going nuts too! I tried to break it down to the simplest scenario - 99.5 at egg height. I just ignored the variables on the mesh, on the sides, probe hanging above egg etc - NOT relevant to our goal. I decided I would not try to understand the complex stuff as I am not...
  3. Nakihunter

    What is the best thermometer to use in your incubator!!!!

    Please see my other thread on the setting & hatch. I got a probe thermometer digital as well. I got another glass liquid thermometer (blue) which was from one of the Incubator companies and they said it was the standard one they used. It had much larger tube & more number of gradations...
  4. Nakihunter

    My first lock down Pheasants

    Final count. Correct number is 24 chicks. 43% hatch About 10 were dead in shell at late stage. 2 did not survive after hatching with my help. A few could not get out. Most of these seem to have been wrapped up in the membrane while I opened the incubator after day 25. 3 were early dead...
  5. Nakihunter

    My first lock down Pheasants

    Thanks for all the support, encouragement and help. Day 28 - moved the last 2 chicks into brooder. All 26 chicks look active and happy. Ended up with 2 dead in incubator - did not survive the struggle, on dead with open shell. The rest are either infertile or early dead. I am reasonably...
  6. Nakihunter

    My first lock down Pheasants

    Yes I have clean wood shavings but under the paper. We used to use News paper when I was managing poultry breeding business 30 years ago! The chicks are very active and making soft chirps. Drinking well No huddling up etc. Passed the first night in flying colours. I noticed their "wild"...
  7. Nakihunter

    My first lock down Pheasants

    Day 26 10:30 am. 15 chicks hatched. Moved 10 to brooder. 5 still in incubator drying out. Another 5 pipped. Gave the new chicks a beak dip in electrolyte & they are happy in the brooder box. Learning to drink and pecking away at the crumble. Using Pheasant started with higher protein...
  8. Nakihunter

    My first lock down Pheasants

    Total 11 chicks at 12 midnight day 25. 3 more with long round cracks in shells and a few more pipped. Looks like a total of less than 20 at this point. Good night!
  9. Nakihunter

    My first lock down Pheasants

    Thanks folks. Really appreciate the encouragement. Got 4 more by 2 pm & another 3 by 7 pm. Also saw another 7? pipped eggs. Possiblly more as some of the cracks are low and pointing down. I was getting quite disappointed that only 2 hatched and another 3 pipped at 8 am. Now it looks...
  10. Nakihunter

    Incubating Ring Neck Pheasant eggs

    Day 25 - 8 am. About 10 other pips.
  11. Nakihunter

    My first lock down Pheasants

    8 am - 2 chicks. Very quiet and looking wet with clumped feathers. After shining torch, a few chirps. Opened incubator to remove small water dish I had put in - checked other pips and counted about 12. A bit disappointed. 9 am the 2 chicks are looking more lively and drying out. More...
  12. Nakihunter

    My first lock down Pheasants

    It is now 8 pm day 24 and just 8 or 9 have pipped. The early ones do not seem to have progressed at all - shells look the same. Will my shinig the torch affect them? I hope I have not hurt them by opening to remove thermometers. I moved the first egg to the front so I could monitor it. A...
  13. Nakihunter

    Incubating Ring Neck Pheasant eggs

  14. Nakihunter

    Incubating Ring Neck Pheasant eggs

    8 am day 24 & saw one pipped egg. 9 am saw 4 more. One chirp when I opened to remove thermometers. Thrilled
  15. Nakihunter

    My first lock down Pheasants

    My eggs have started pipping 8 am 24th day. Saw one tiny triangular crack. At 9 am I checked again and started finding a few more - saw total 5 piped eggs. I opened the incubator for 5 seconds to remove the 3 thermometers and I heard one chick chirp from inside the shell! Very thilled...
  16. Nakihunter

    Incubating Ring Neck Pheasant eggs

    Got a Brinsea blue glass bulb thermometer and put it next to the GQF red glass bulb. The Brinsea reads 37.5C & the Red one reads 100F but gradations are not clear. Digital thermometers read 37.3 & 37.4. The variation has reduced a lot after day 20. Today is day 23 and I am nervously...
  17. Nakihunter

    My first lock down Pheasants

    Yesterday a blue glass bulbe Brinsea thermometer arrived and I placed it next to the GQF red glass model. The Brinsea has much smaller gradations & it is easy to see the reading 0.5 degreeC variance. Day 23 and temperature of all 4 thermometers are very close - 37.4C, 37.3C, 37.5C (Brinsea)...
  18. Nakihunter

    My first lock down Pheasants

    Thanks for the encouragement. The eggs feel warm and so I presume I have not cooked them! After adding water to the outer channel, I got 71% humidity & so I added a small bowl of water and now it is 78%. The temperature was dropping with the increased water surface and so I had to adjust...
  19. Nakihunter

    My first lock down Pheasants

    Hi, My first hatch - 56 ring neck eggs set. Day 22 today (now 7:30 pm) I am using 3 thermometers in the basic chinese fan incubator hexagon type 60 egg capacity I am in New Zealand & it is our summer. I realise that most here will be in mid winter! One digital thermometer sits on top of...
  20. Nakihunter

    Incubating Ring Neck Pheasant eggs

    I read on another forum about putting a non-slip mat unedr the eggs at time of lock down. I have cut out a piece of rubberised perforated mat I got from a local $2 shop. Day 22 tomorrow and preparing for lockdown. Also preparing for brooding.
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