Peafowl hatching eggs??

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BHep

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How is the hatch rate on shipped eggs? Same as chickens & ducks etc.? What should I expect to pay?
Any info would be great...
 
BHep

Peafowl are a little harder to incubate than chickens, and with shipped eggs its always no guarantee. Shipped securely, intact, and fertile when sent is all you can hope for. The right shipping should leave no broken eggs unless the package was really abused during transport.

As far as egg prices go, its tough to say because a lot depends on color/pattern and who they are from. You can check ebay where they go from $8-10 to $40-50 per egg during breeding season depending on breed color/pattern. Some breeders won't sell eggs in precious patterns, the offspring are worth much more.
 
I think the people at the peafowl information center sell a bunch of peafowl eggs still:
http://www.peafowl.com/

In fact, here is there short video about buying eggs:

That is all I know lol.
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I read about a breeder who always used a chicken hen to incubate for the first week then move them to the incubator. He/she claimed that this technique greatly improved hatching rate. Something about how the live mother tends the eggs during the first week of development.
 
I never had much luck with shipped peafowl eggs. For us it was lower than other poultry eggs, on pea eggs 20 to 40% would be about our average for our hatches. On our own eggs they hatch just fine. The price varies by the color - India Blues the cheapest and up and up from there.

Steve
 
Above commets are about the same I hear for shipped eggs from most people, usually way lower than chicken eggs. It's the reason plus harder to incubate than chicken eggs why I won't ship peaeggs.. too easy for customer to be disappointed. Best to get them locally or get started peachicks.

Some had great success so it's not impossible but as a general rule best to expect a low hatch.
 
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I bought eggs from Deerman a few years ago. They were packaged extremely well. I read that using an automatic turner didn't work that well, so I laid them on their side in my Hovobator and hand turned them 5 times a day. I got a 50% hatch rate. My birds are gorgeous!

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You will have much better luck if you pickup them or find someone local. Shipped peafowl eggs are really hard to hatch. I bought tons and had them shipped from different breeders. most of them didn't hatch. Mine that was at my farm I got almost 100% hatch rate. But like they say if you are a newbie at hatching peafowl don't spend too much. There is a trick to get these little guys out. Also if you get them to hatch you need to have them on wire floor until they are 3 months old or they can get splayed leg which is almost impossible to correct.
 

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