2015 Peafowl Hatching Support Group - Eggs and Chicks!

[ellymayRans]

Little freaked out tonight.

My IB hen isn't home and I'm worried she finished laying in the woods and has started setting. I'm so worried. I am going on a hunt in the morning. I just hope it's not too late for her!

 

[ellymayRans]

Little freaked out tonight.

My IB hen isn't home and I'm worried she finished laying in the woods and has started setting. I'm so worried. I am going on a hunt in the morning. I just hope it's not too late for her!

She came home this morning for food and water and before I knew it she was gone again! Dang it! I walked part of the woods and will again a little later. Just hope she returns this afternoon and I will try again

 

[DylansMom]

She came home this morning for food and water and before I knew it she was gone again! Dang it! I walked part of the woods and will again a little later. Just hope she returns this afternoon and I will try again

Oh yeah, she's sitting somewhere. Good luck, I hope you can track her down.

 

[KsKingBee]

Oh yeah, she's sitting somewhere. Good luck, I hope you can track her down.

A friend of mine had a peahen setting on a nest in his yard. He had been walking down the path for two weeks not two feet from where she had bee setting and never noticed her. They can hide in plain sight.

 

[Kedreeva]

I hope that you even get 1 peachick, minx! That hatch sounds too disappointing to walk away with none!

As I suspected, my hatch is going early again (it's day 25 an). Thankfully this time i was more prepared, and I had moved them down into lockdown on sunday evening. This morning just before I left for work I made the mistake of peeking through the incubator window... and lo! there was a little pip in one of them and wobbles all around. keeping my fingers crossed I'll have some babies to take pictures of when i get home tonight!

 

[frenchblackcopper]

Must have missed this thread but Monday I started the incubator and put in 9 IB,4 MBS,7 OBS,4 BSSP,1 PURPLE,1 IB/WE,2 TAUPE and 14 ornamental pheasant eggs. Because of the cold weather our laying season is about 3 weeks behind last year so I'm not expecting but maybe 5 of the above to make it to hatch.

 

[Kedreeva]

Oooo good luck on the eggs FBC! My birds started laying in the waaaayyy too cold times, but the eggs that I set from the start of April have started hatching today finally. I've got 2 chicks in the incubator (one pied, and I can't see the other one very well), 1 that is pipped and working on it, and 1 that is just rocking around driving me nuts!!!

 

[casportpony]

Oooo good luck on the eggs FBC! My birds started laying in the waaaayyy too cold times, but the eggs that I set from the start of April have started hatching today finally. I've got 2 chicks in the incubator (one pied, and I can't see the other one very well), 1 that is pipped and working on it, and 1 that is just rocking around driving me nuts!!!

Congrats!

-Kathy

 

[Kedreeva]

So, with the help of a lot of wet towels and quick movements we dove in to rescue the two that had hatched without losing much humidity at all. I wasn't particularly worried about the pied but the little white eye baby had a pretty splayed leg that I didn't want to let get any worse. I've never had a bird of any kind with a splayed leg at hatching so I admit I'm sitting here with it in my hand holding the leg in the appropriate position for the moment. Has anyone had to forge a splint for a splayed leg before and if so what did you use and how did you do it?

 

[thndrdancr]

Kedreeva, it shouldn't be too bad, all 6 of mine got splayed leg last fall since mom chicken for some stupid reason pushed them out of nest onto a slick surface that was nearby right at hatch!

I taped the legs together, I used an extremely thin strip of duck tape and tape them close together in normal position just like you would do a chicken chick. I checked in 3 days and some needed longer, some were ok.

I thought I had a picture but can't find it but do it closest to ankles is possible.

These are the peas that all had splayed.