Incubating peafowl

[annabell254]

I have heard that pea hen eggs are most venerable in the first week, I think they need more turning than chickens but could be wrong.... I do know one one very large breeder that uses Broody Cochin for the first week of incubation and then moves them to the big red-wood incubators and he is getting 99+% hatch rates with this method.... and he keeps over 100 broody Cochin just to start all of his pea chick eggs!!!!!!

 

[cohobby]

I don't have the tray for my RCom, I just put paper towel on the floor after I take the egg holder out. Works great and less clean up.

 

[frenchblackcopper]

Kuntrygirl,,good job for future planning but you will need good spirits for THIS season. I hate to celebrate alone here in Illinois. Every hatch day is a celebration of life. Took God 7 days to create man and earth but it takes 24 days to create the most beautiful birds on the planet Well worth a celebration ever hatch day.

 

[kuntrygirl]

Kuntrygirl,,good job for future planning but you will need good spirits for THIS season. I hate to celebrate alone here in Illinois. Every hatch day is a celebration of life. Took God 7 days to create man and earth but it takes 24 days to create the most beautiful birds on the planet Well worth a celebration ever hatch day.

You are absolutely right my friend. Which is why I started a batch of grape wine 2 days ago in honor of YOU and hatchin. Friends have to stick together, so I can't let you celebrate alone. CHEERS MY FRIEND !!!!!!

 

[annabell254]

mmmm...wine and fluffy chicks

 

[frenchblackcopper]

Kuntrygitl,Do yourself a favor now and go to SAMS CLUB and look for whats called Reggae Splash,,it's a nice sweet red wine almost like a Sangria and it's cheep,,about $4 a bottle. My sis is a member so I've instructed her to get me a case for this seasons vino hatch alongs.I'm also considering some good wines from the Washington State region. Annabelle254 we have many wine-hatch alogs here during the short hatching season for Peas.The year long wait and the anticipation of what genetic combinations your'll get are overwhelming.Blackberry Merlot chilled to about 42 degrees farenheit is great for extended hatches.When my first Taupe-Charcoal-Cameo eggs hatches I may declare the following day as a stay at home holiday because all these colors will be new for me this year(cept the charcoal)

 

[bandbaustin]

Reggae red and reggae white are yummy as well. As for me, it will be peach moonshine as my hatch helper.

 

[frenchblackcopper]

Band,bring a bottle with you Sunday pleeze??? PS,, I love peach,,as in schnapps or brandy.Peach stone sours are my favorite all around camping buds.

 

[annabell254]

ooooooo... blackberry merlot!!!! I LOVE it!!! I am on a wait for pea eggs

I have waned them since I was a kid and my neighbors had them

and for the last 3 years I have been reshearching an finding a breeder to go with....and convincing my hubby that I NEED them!!!!

I got a brinsea advanced incubator in antisapation of the eggs later this year and will set two hatches in it before I get the pea's... my plan is to get them in May from Rocking B-A-B Ranch.. they are a few hours from us, and have all kinds of colors and I can drive to pick up the eggs, so I wont have to worry about shipped eggs that cost mega bucks

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Thanks for the thread on hatching and wine!

I recently got back to drinking some blackberry wine and am hooked but not snockered.
The first 2 eggs I set did not develop but I have another one in and haven't candled. I am rolling this one by hand a few times a day. The girls are now starting to drop them from the roosting boards so I may have to take those out. I hate to since they love roosting. But I would love to hatch out some pea chicks.

I use a Sportsman 1202 and have 2 others set up for more chicken and duck eggs, the styrofoam ones.

Happy hatching, everyone!