2015 Peafowl Hatching Support Group - Eggs and Chicks!

[ellymayRans]

I see one problem with the scale picture, lol.

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It's not in grams! 

Sorry, can't help myself. 

-Kathy

I had it on grams and changed it. The babe weighed 64 grams if that helps you!!
Lol!

 

[casportpony]

Quote:

Sorry, can't help myself.

-Kathy

I had it on grams and changed it. The babe weighed 64 grams if that helps you!!

Lol!

Lol, I was just teasing you. I find it so much easier to to keep track of them in grams, it makes calculating medications, food, weight gains/losses so much easier.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Got to say that I am thrilled to see so many people weighing their chicks these days!

-Kathy

 

[ellymayRans]

Used two phones to take pics but update of the hatches. 4 made it to lockdown. 1 hatched really early Monday morning on day 27. 2 others had pipped. Both below the air cell. I helped a bit just to make sure I could see them and they were able to breathe.

The pics are of the 2 pipped. The smaller of the 2 died after a bit of labored breathing. The other is quite large but not from too much humidity. It has a bit of a bloody navel but otherwise seems ok. Its leg was on its head with both wings at its sides.

A little blood so I stopped and waited for a couple hours. It tried moving but couldn't.

Here are the 2 together. The larger weighed 132g at set and Day 25 114g.

The smaller 131g at set and Day 25 112g.

 

[ellymayRans]

Hours later I removed enough to basically allow it to be sitting in the egg as it had quite a bit of goop and open navel but yolk completely absorbed.

 

[ellymayRans]

The first to hatch weighed in at 64g. This one weighs 84g.

Navel is a bit open but dry.

This is the egg. You can see it had already had a bowel movement but very bloody in there.

The 4th egg which seemed to lose the perfect amount of weight throughout died. Eggtopsy: no internal pip. Set weight of 126g Day 25 111g.

 

[frenchiegirl21]

Hello! My name is Rachel. My dad told me yesterday we would be getting some peafowl eggs from someone and they dropped them off today. I have 4 eggs total. No idea which type or anything, and I have no experience hatching them. I was hoping to set them tomorrow since I don't know how old they are. Does anyone have an advice for a peafowl newbie? I'm not sure I'll get to keep them if they hatch since I live in the middle of the city but having a successful hatch would be nice.

 

[casportpony]

Is this the correct formula to calulate weight loss?

Start weight - final weight
------------------------------------- X 100 = % lost
Start weight

I'll use one of my eggs as an example

114.84 - 99.84
------------------ X 100 = 13.06%
114.84



-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Calculating fertility percentage:


-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

And this:


-Kathy