hatching eggs upright?

[Trefoil]

I have read that pea eggs hatch better lying on their sides. Is this true? Does anyone incubate them upright?

 

[Kedreeva]

You can incubate them upright but they do hatch better on their sides and the incubation/hatch generally goes better if they are also incubated on their sides. Maybe they get disoriented easier if they are upright and turn on their sides, maybe there's some biological function that doesn't work as well with an upright egg (after all, they don't lay upright in a natural nest, and they aren't so domesticated that it doesn't really matter like chickens), I'm not sure anyone has a specific reason why... just the experience of it working better on the side.

 

[DMFarm]

I don't know why people thinks pea eggs have to be on there side to have a good hatch they will hatch out just fine either way. I have hatched 1000's of peafowl over the years and have never lay a egg on the side in the incubator. It all in the temperature and humidity not how they are setting.

 

[DAS]

I don't know why people thinks pea eggs have to be on there side to have a good hatch they will hatch out just fine either way. I have hatched 1000's of peafowl over the years and have never lay a egg on the side in the incubator. It all in the temperature and humidity not how they are setting.

Thank you for answering this. A lot of people have had questions on this subject. I generally set eggs both ways. For some reason, most of the eggs laying on their sides this year are quitting on me. The hatch rate on the ones in the upright position has been great. Have not been able to figure this out.

 

[AugeredIn]

Go with what works. I have hatched both ways and really don't notice a difference.

 

[Choctaw Valley Farm]

With the thousands of Peachicks, Pheasant and other Poultry that we have hatched over the last 10 years we have never layed the eggs down, we always seem to have a better hatch if we forget the hatch date and they hatch in the incubator trays standing up.

This kinda falls in the same place as the "LOCKDOWN" we have never done that either because we set eggs every 7 days so it gets opened.

 

[Kedreeva]

You're also operating with a cabinet incubator, I assume, which holds temp and humidity better. It makes a huge difference