Hatching Question or better yet Not Hatching Question

[RedBugPoultry]

Can anyone help me on this please!

I broke open my 5 precious peafowl eggs today on day 32 of find that they really had not developed much at all. What I thought was development I now think was just the yoke rotting and darkening(and boy were they rotten). Each egg had about a dime size development--bascally just a big blood spot and that was it. All must have died about the same time. What did I do wrong? Can anyong shed any light on this really sad happening? I really would like to try this again. I had them in my Sportsman at 99.5 degrees. I had them laying falt on a turkey tray and turned them manually 3 times a day plus had the turner on in the machine. I did this for two weeks. My humidity was about 54% to 57% but I did have one hatch of guinea eggs during their incubation so the humidity would have gone up to 68% to 70% for that time period of 2 to 3 days. This hatch of Keets was after the first week of incubation.

Any ideas on what I did wrong? These eggs were purchased locally so they did not get shipped.

I really want to try this again but might wait until my silkies develop and start setting. Has anyone ever hatched peafowl under silkies?

 

[Yoda]

I have mine eggs in goose trays on the auto turner and so far they are doing great. 2 are due to hatch thursday or friday and so far there is still movement in the eggs. I got the goose rails on Ebay for about $40. The eggs lay on thier side instead of standing up. Also all the fertile eggs so far have growth inside them. Humidity is 60% and the temp is 99.8. Hope this helps!!

 

[RedBugPoultry]

Yoda, thank you for your reply. My husband had said to just put them in on the turner and leave them but I was trying to follow what everyone else had said about turning them also by hand. Live and learn....

 

[prairiehen74369]

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I recently hatched three peafowl eggs out under a little silkie hen she possibly cold have set on four. I put them in my brooder and sold them at two weeks. You just can't beat mother nature. I tried the incubator thing last summer with no luck Ethel the Mother peacock is due to hatch wednesday she is on seven. Hope this helps.

 

[RedBugPoultry]

Prairiehen--Thank you! That gives me hope! I will have several little silkies of laying age, if all goes well, by spring of next year. I will wait and work with them. I am too bummed to try hatching more peafowl eggs this year. I still have 5 more eggs in the incubator due to hatch next week that do not look like they are doing anything.

 

[ranit]

I like to put my pea eggs under a silkie for a week to 10 days and then move them to the incubator. For some reason I just seem to have better hatches that way.