Incubating peafowl

[casportpony]

OK! soooooooooooooooooo..... I am concerned about one of my eggs.... the air sack in it is over 50% of the entire egg! the other's are about 1/3 toward the top in a perfect circle.... in the large air sack egg it coveres the entire top and one whole side of the egg and has several curves in it (not a perfct circle) but the chick IS moving around inside it.... Will it be able to reach the shell to pip through the egg ... the chick will have to be TINEY as most of the egg is air cell ... I do not want it to die.... advice/help please!

I had one like that last week, it was like too much evaporated. The chick pipped but died, it was very small and had not absorbed it's yolk properly.

I have no idea what I could ave done to save it...

-Kathy

 

[annabell254]

I think I will try to help it once it pips... I have assisted many chicks before with great sucess.... of course they are not all made to make it... but some just need a little extra help... I can keep it in its shell in a cup with moist papertowel wrapped around it... to give it extra time to absorbe the yoke if needed.... this works some of the time.... other times not so much

Why do you think it would 'all of a sudden' evaporate too much? esp when all the other eggs are normal?

 

[casportpony]

In my case, the egg in question had a larger air cell than the others from the very beginning. I think it's because it was laid right after one that had no shell, so maybe it's shell was too thin?

Also have a duck egg that's the same, but it has holes and cracks in it, so i'm pretty sure that the problem with it. Going to take some pictures of it and will post them just for grins.

- Kathy

 

[annabell254]

hummm....this one is hard and not porus.... and the air cell was spot on 5 days ago.... then yeasterday when I checked it was HUGE but the rest are about perfect size for hatch .... and this one just decided to go crazy haha


do you think raising the temp 1/2 degree may help with late bloomers or egg yoke absorbson...

 

[casportpony]

I have no clue what to do, this is my first year with an incubator and only my second year hatching pea eggs.

-Kathy

 

[frenchblackcopper]

According to brinsea eggs in incubation should lose 13-15% of their weight while shaking and baking.If you suddenly notice a larger airsack I would suspect a cracked shell. Raising the temp this far along wouldn't have much effect on hatching sooner and yolk absorbtion is more controlled by mother nature when the chick is getting ready to pip and hatch

 

[annabell254]

I had three hatch unassisted... one white or black shoulder, one silver (heavy) pied and one brown... the small one I helped out...no blood... and it seemed dead... I got it out it took one breath and died.... the other egg the chick was up-side down, I got its head out and it died a few hours later... again fully developed and no yoke sack on eithre I started with 13 eggs... I had 5 clears... and 8 developing.... 5 went to full term and I got 3 live babies.... not the hatch I was hoping for

but I am very happy about my silver pied chick.... I may go back to him and buy some just hatched babies today as we set the eggs togeather .....

 

[casportpony]

Annabell, sorry for your losses.

I'm having the same sort of luck here... Started with 15 eggs, all fertile. Lost six in the incubator and the one little one under the broody.

-Kathy

 

[Angelak]

It being my first peacock eggs put 5 in incubator,3 were due first this week,no sucess frim them ,next 1 due next week,n 1 due the following week,im just praying I get the last 2 to hatch n live.....or I will be soooo depressed to have 100% failure for 1st yr.

 

[casportpony]

It being my first peacock eggs put 5 in incubator,3 were due first this week,no sucess frim them ,next 1 due next week,n 1 due the following week,im just praying I get the last 2 to hatch n live.....or I will be soooo depressed to have 100% failure for 1st yr.

for you! This is my first year using an incubator and losing 6 of 10 was tuff.

-Kathy