Incubating Peafowl and Chickens together

[Stephb1013]

Hi ! I have some Peafowl eggs( some of which need to go in ASAP) some are a little newer. I also have chicken eggs that need to go in now too. I am going to take out the egg turner at 18 days and self turn the peacocks, my concern is the humidity. Raising it for the chickens, will that make it too high for the Peacocks for the remainder of the days until I stop turning them??

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

What humidity are you going to incubate at, and lockdown at?

 

[Stephb1013]

Well I have not incubated anything in years so I had to research this. The most recent website says lockdown for chickens should be 66-75. So my concern is once I lockdown the chickens and raise the humidity, will it be too high for the Peacocks becuae they won't be in lockdown yet. And also me opening the hatcher to turn the peacock eggs might pose a problem too...

 

[Stephb1013]

What humidity are you going to incubate at, and lockdown at?

Oh and i was going to incubate at around 55-58

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

Ok there's the problem. I'd incubate at 30% and then on chicken lockdown don't go above 60%. The peafowl won't mind that much humidity and they should be fine. After your chickens hatch I'd bump peafowl humidity to 45%. Peafowl humidity at lockdown could be 70%.
Ideally in the future, you can incubate Peafowl, turkeys and ducks better together.
Chicken and quail better together.

 

[Stephb1013]

Oh wow 30%? Ok I'm going to try what you suggested.. Thanks so much for your advise!

 

[Kiran123]

Hi - just wanted to ask how this worked for you as I have the same predicament. Chicken and peafowl eggs