Would you get eggs if you've never hatched anything before?

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I'd really love some white peafowl. There is someone near me who is selling white eggs. I have a hovabator but I've never successfully hatched anything. Well I had some chickens hatch and ready to hatch but we had snow storms and the power kept going out. No one survived. So are peafowl too difficult for a noob?
 
If you can pick them up and they don't cost an arm and a leg i would give it a shot but set some chicken eggs a week later just in case you end up with 1 pea hatching cause the crying will break your heart, i know i just hatched out 8 and can walk near the brooder without hearing them cause they see me.
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why don't you see if they will be having babies and save yourself alot of trouble, then when they grow up you can practice hatching peas with your own eggs like most of us have and are doing now
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Well I gave my boyfriend Aaron 1 peafowl egg and let him borrow my hovabator (mine is the two window one and it doesn't have anything fancy so you have to hand turn the egg around 5 times a day). Aaron has never incubated any kind of egg and sometimes when I came to see him there would be no water in the incubator tray and I would have to tell him he has to always make sure it has water but even so he still ended up hatching a peachick but he had to help it out of the egg because it broke the shell but was taking too long to hatch so he had to help it out. Once again, he has only owned a parrot so that is the only bird experience he has had (that and helping me feed the peafowl) so this was very new to him.

Here is the peachick he hatched on his own.
 
Well i think I'll give it a try. I don't live in a very populated state and I'm having the worst time finding peafowl for sale at all. Any advice for hatching then?
Here are my current peas hanging out.


 
I had 3 pea eggs shipped from Florida and I live in Montana....yes it's a really long ways but they we're a great price and the seller had good reviews, so I chanced it. I had never incubated pea eggs before (only chicken and duck). I did start them under a broody hen. One didn't start, one quit, and the smallest egg hatched in my incubator...I did need to assist a bit as after 24 hrs no progress...its foot was over his head and the air sack was a bit funky so it couldn't finish. Amazingly I had a chicken hatch the same day, so they are best buds. So I think you should try it! :)
 
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Wow I just checked the UPA breeder listing for Wyoming and you are right, there are NO breeders listed!
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Here is the link to the breeder listing page: http://www.peafowl.org/breeders.htm

If you are near another state you could maybe take a drive to a peafowl breeder in a different state. It does look like you might have to ship. Shipping eggs can be hard to hatch. So if you ship eggs try and get them from the closest breeder possible to lessen the chance that the eggs will be shaken up too much.
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MinxFox said:
Wow I just checked the UPA breeder listing for Wyoming and you are right, there are NO breeders listed!
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Here is the link to the breeder listing page: http://www.peafowl.org/breeders.htm

If you are near another state you could maybe take a drive to a peafowl breeder in a different state. It does look like you might have to ship. Shipping eggs can be hard to hatch. So if you ship eggs try and get them from the closest breeder possible to lessen the chance that the eggs will be shaken up too much.
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I'm about 30 mins from Colorado and there is a breeder about an hour away from me with eggs so I was just going to go drive and pick some up. Course I found her on craigslist and haven't had any response to my email inquiry so maybe I'll be ordering from someone.
 
Did she list a phone number too? Sometimes I think some peafowl breeders don't check their email that much so calling might be better. I hope you get a reply!
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