It's Official...

[Mmmatt13]

Have you gotten more Pied peas, Peeps? I still think that's odd coming from your otherwise solid IBs.

 

[bemba]

I love Love LOVE this incubator! It served me beyond well this season. Stable is an understatement, rock solid fits better, lol.

I was able to get the hatcher put together and working about a week or so after i got the incubator. It did a great job too, it was just as stable.

I have one more small setting of Silkie and Showgirl eggs, then 2 small settings of Peafowl eggs in the incubator left to go... then I am done hatching for the season !!! (IF I can keep myself from setting the last dozen Silkie and Showgirl eggs I have sitting in my egg storage area, lol). My Turkeys and Peafowl are FINALLY done laying for the season (phew!) and all my Guinea eggs have been either going into the fridge or sold for eating eggs lately.

I'm still getting between 16 and 18 eggs from the Guinea girls, and 2-3 Silkie and Showgirl eggs a day... sheesh they all need to quit! I feel super guilty every time I'm putting eggs in the fridge, but I am just too burned out on brooder cleaning to keep hatching more keets

Oh wow! That is fantastic ! I have to rely on clucky hens and although I have about 40 I don't always have enough at any give time, last season was the exception though. I love the fact that we alternate our breeding seasons, so when we are off you are on! I get my keet fix all year round! But less work So did you get the colours you were after this season? I know you were hanging out for a couple of combo colours.

 

[PeepsCA]

Have you gotten more Pied peas, Peeps? I still think that's odd coming from your otherwise solid IBs.

I have hatched a total of 5 Pied IB Peachicks so far, plus 1 that has some white flights on both wings and 1 that has a couple of white flights on just 1 wing (last time I checked them anyway, lol).

I talked to the breeder of my Peacock a while back, and he said there's a probability that he is either split to Pied or split to White, but if I remember correctly he wasn't sure which breeding pen he came out of to know for sure which he might be, lol.

I have no background info on the Hen that's laying the eggs the Pied chicks have been hatching from, but there is no sign of white on her at all (not that that means anything, the Peacock has no white showing anywhere either, lol). This Hen does have a tan spot on one side of the top of her head (I thought it was a scar, but who knows)... but she's something besides just an IB. She has a light/scattered dusting of dark feathers on her chest that goes all the way down to her legs, whereas my other 2 "pure" IB PeaHens do not have that dusting, their chests are just plain, cream colored. If I can't see her chest or her pink zip tie leg band she looks identical to the other 2 PeaHens. I'm clueless when it comes to Peafowl genetics... lots to learn still.

I'm pretty sure the next 2 settings of Peafowl eggs I have left in the incubator are from my younger 2 "pure" IB Hens, so I'll be really surprised if I see any more Pieds this season. I'm happy to have the 5 that did hatch out tho, and so far I'm fairly positive that I have 1 (Pied) PeaHen and 1 Pied Peacock in the older bunch... so now let's just hope for a couple more Pied PeaHens from the younger bunch

 

[PeepsCA]

Oh wow! That is fantastic ! I have to rely on clucky hens and although I have about 40 I don't always have enough at any give time, last season was the exception though. I love the fact that we alternate our breeding seasons, so when we are off you are on! I get my keet fix all year round! But less work So did you get the colours you were after this season? I know you were hanging out for a couple of combo colours.

I did get a few here and there of what I was hoping to hatch out, and I am keeping quite a few new pretties for next season, but... I kind of got distracted hatching other kinds of eggs (besides the usual 500+ Guinea eggs), and I didn't really follow thru on my "Guinea goals" this season, lol. I plan on streamlining my Guinea breeding flocks for next season so my Guinea goal (or goals, plural) will stay more on track tho (deja vu?)... but of course that's easier said than done when there's constantly a ton of eggs coming at me from all directions every day, LOL. Sigh... so many eggs, so little time (more like so little brooder and grow out pen space, lol). I am already missing my cute little keet hatches tho... and with as many eggs as I am still getting from my girls I am very tempted to set a giant batch before I really officially call it quits for the hatching season. But with brooder and grow out pen space already being at full capacity as far as what I am keeping and have left to sell, and a vacation coming up... I really do not want a huge batch of young keets to worry about/deal with this late in the season