Hatch help

[RubyNala97]

For future reference, I've also used (on chicken membrane) bacetracin, without pain medicine in it. It keeps the membrane moist way longer then just water.

 

[cajunfowl0]

My little project is alive and well this morning. Holding his head up and moving around. Overnight, the other 2 eggs in the hatcher zipped and hatched successfully on their own which was an added bonus to wake up to this morning! I honestly believe that if I had not intervened, he would not have hatched successfully as he was turning in the shell without zipping & likely would've suffocated - seen it happen with chicken chicks. 2 more set to hatch next week and 2 more the following week.

I've left one of my pea hens make her own nest to see if she'll hatch out some on her own. There were 7 eggs in there as of yesterday & she hasn't started sitting on them yet. Anyone have any input as to how long hens will wait to start sitting? It's been 12 days since she started laying the eggs...will they even be viable yet??

I have trouble hatching/incubating any eggs after day 10.(in a bator) Do you have any broody bantams just in case your peahen never goes broody?

 

[KsKingBee]

I may as well give my incubator away, I have twelve broody chicken hens setting on pea eggs and five more in Gen Pop waiting for eggs.

 

[cajunfowl0]

I may as well give my incubator away, I have twelve broody chicken hens setting on pea eggs and five more in Gen Pop waiting for eggs.  

I've hatched out about 50 bantams this spring lol I don't think I'll be using mine very often haha!

 

[KsKingBee]

I've hatched out about 50 bantams this spring lol I don't think I'll be using mine very often haha!

I've hatched out about 100 peachicks and I am still using those broodies. I let them go twenty-five days and switch them out after three clutches. Ah-ha!

 

[critters]

Those of you using Broodies do you all bring the eggs in around day 25 and put in bator or do some of you let the broody hen hatch them?

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

Yesterday i put 8 eggs under two broody chickens, its my first time to use broody chicken to hatch peafowl eggs, if everything went well, I will be seriously considering broodies for next year plan. The only thing i'm not sure about is the weather, its so hot here with average temp is 113.

 

[KsKingBee]

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My broody hens are in nest boxes inside of a well ventilated metal building, when the temperature is above 95 they stand and hover above the eggs.