Are Chicken Eggs the Easiest to Incubate? (compared to pheasant)

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I have always had really good results incubating chicken eggs. I use a GFQ Sportsman 1502. I typically have 90% of my fertile chicken eggs hatch. I have recently gotten into raising ringneck pheasants. I ordered some melanistic ringneck eggs from a reputable sources. I placedthe pheasant eggs in the incubator a few days before the chicken eggs, in an effort to line up the hatches at the same time. When candled around day ten, I had 9 pheasants developing and 13 chickens. I ended up with 2 pheasants hatching, while 12 of the chickens made it. This is a 22% pheasant hatch rate vs 92% for the chickens.

Do you do anything different when hatching pheasants vs chickens? Could a slight humidity or temperature issue wipe out ringneck pheasants without noticeably injuring the chicken chicks? I am assuming the fact the eggs were shipped wasn't a factor since they made it halfway, but maybe this is a bad assumption?

Thanks for the help.
 

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