Help! first time hatching!

[Lacrystol]

LOL, I think they just need to change it. I kind of like the 3 day rule but says stop turning on the 26th day. Last time I counted, three days on a 28 day hatching period would bring you to day 25?. LOL

Perhaps I need to go back to school and re-learn how to count. LOL

 

[casportpony]

Even something like this has errors:


-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

That chart says peafowl hatch in 28-30 days, but many peafowl breeders have them hatching at day 26-27, rarely do they go past 28 days. Of course the chart also says to incubate at 100°... not sure that 1/2 a degree makes that big a difference, but I would feel better if it said 99.5°

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Quote: IMNSHO, yes, it's too high.

-Kathy

 

[Lacrystol]

Even something like this has errors:


-Kathy

My goodness, I guess you just can't go by everything that you read on the internet. I kind of like the last part about if the egg is older than 7 days to give them more hatching time. HUM????? I did not know that. HAHAHHAHA but then I didn't know half the stuff on here. LOL....

Wonder why the older the egg the longer time they need? HUM, I think I will ask my Girls. Perhaps they can give me that answer..

 

[casportpony]

My goodness, I guess you just can't go by everything that you read on the internet. I kind of like the last part about if the egg is older than 7 days to give them more hatching time. HUM????? I did not know that. HAHAHHAHA but then I didn't know half the stuff on here. LOL....

Wonder why the older the egg the longer time they need? HUM, I think I will ask my Girls. Perhaps they can give me that answer..

I think there probably is some truth to that, though I I have not experienced that here. Note that it does say "might"

. I can tell you that eggs not stored properly, or for longer than three weeks aren't very likely not to hatch. I did an experiment where I set a bunch of peafowl eggs all over three weeks old and only one hatched, but it managed to hatch in 27-28 days.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

I would like to see more articles like this:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/incubating-and-hatching-guinea-fowl

Beautifully written and looks to be spot-on fact wise.

-Kathy

 

[Lacrystol]

I think there probably is some truth to that, though I I have not experienced that here. Note that it does say "might"

. I can tell you that eggs not stored properly, or for longer than three weeks aren't very likely not to hatch. I did an experiment where I set a bunch of peafowl eggs all over three weeks old and only one hatched, but it managed to hatch in 27-28 days.

-Kathy

I thought you told me one time, you stored eggs up to 1 month?

 

[casportpony]

I did, and only one of those eggs hatched. I had already hatched about 30 peachicks, so was in no hurry to set more eggs, but decided to see what happened. Can't remember all of the details, so if you remember me saying something different, that's probably how it went down. Will look for my posts on the subject.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Hatching experiment. We bought a Janoel 48 to use as a NICU, not as a hatcher, but I had a bunch of *really* old pea eggs and decided to see if I could get some to hatch. Today is day three.



-Kathy

Many of those were older than 4 weeks, some were only three weeks.

-Kathy