2014 breeding season begins, post your results

[casportpony]

Thanks, that's actually from last year, bit she and her sister did just start sitting.


-Kathy

Well I've got 4 for you so far. So I should be able to ship Monday. Got a BS egg tonight finally, no IB eggs yet, but I figured you had plenty of those already.

What fun! I set a bunch more of mine and will ship you some fresh ones on Wednesday or Thursday at the latest. All IB, none related to each other and my first crop from these peas produced large hens, all over 4kg.

-Kathy

 

[DylansMom]

What fun! I set a bunch more of mine and will ship you some fresh ones on Wednesday or Thursday at the latest. All IB, none related to each other and my first crop from these peas produced large hens, all over 4kg.

-Kathy

Hens would be nice! Maybe you could send pics of your eggs to someone and they could confirm that they are fertile and contain hen embryos!

 

[margaret8]

Hens would be nice! Maybe you could send pics of your eggs to someone and they could confirm that they are fertile and contain hen embryos!

Now, now!

 

[zazouse]

Hens would be nice! Maybe you could send pics of your eggs to someone and they could confirm that they are fertile and contain hen embryos!

 

[MinxFox]

I thought you preferred the more gold look of the Javas over the more blue/green of the Burmese?

I do like the Javanese and the Indo-Chinese more, but I have been wanting green peafowl so badly and Doug of DM Farms contacted me recently saying he would send me an egg (for free) from his Imported Burmese green peahen (I believe she is from Wolfgang) and really I knew that if I had a chance like this I wouldn't care what subspecies I get I just want to get started raising green peafowl.

Anyways I am really super grateful to Doug of DM Farms and I got the egg today and it was packed very well! I have it in the incubator at around 99 deg F.
Here are some photos!


I reached in and started to carefully unwrap the egg from the bubble wrap.


Here is the egg it was very clean! I already have some eggs inside so I compared it to my peafowl eggs and it is as big as the biggest egg I have. It seemed kind of heavy.

 

[casportpony]

Quote: I haven't ever shipped eggs, so just looking for ideas.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Quote: D' oh!

-Kathy

 

[DylansMom]

I do like the Javanese and the Indo-Chinese more, but I have been wanting green peafowl so badly and Doug of DM Farms contacted me recently saying he would send me an egg (for free) from his Imported Burmese green peahen (I believe she is from Wolfgang) and really I knew that if I had a chance like this I wouldn't care what subspecies I get I just want to get started raising green peafowl.

Anyways I am really super grateful to Doug of DM Farms and I got the egg today and it was packed very well! I have it in the incubator at around 99 deg F.
Here are some photos!


I reached in and started to carefully unwrap the egg from the bubble wrap.


Here is the egg it was very clean! I already have some eggs inside so I compared it to my peafowl eggs and it is as big as the biggest egg I have. It seemed kind of heavy.

Keep us posted on how it does!

 

[DylansMom]

I haven't ever shipped eggs, so just looking for ideas.

-Kathy

Unless they destroy the outer box, you should be able to reuse all of my packing materials and just send everything back. I use sheets of foam to wrap each egg and they go in a compartmentalized box, which in turn goes in a larger box surrounded by packing peanuts.

 

[MinxFox]

Keep us posted on how it does!

I was thanking Doug and he said, "There should have been two eggs." so I jumped up and ran and dug through the box and found the second egg! Yay now I have two eggs in the incubator!

So for everyone getting eggs shipped to them, make sure you look or feel through the box more carefully than I did.