just set 4 pea eggs and 4 more tomarrow any one with me?

[SuperPeacockman]

Jeeze that is a lot of eggs

 

[frenchblackcopper]

I know the risks and poor hatch rate results for shipped eggs,,,even locating sellers within 250 miles does not always help. I always try to buy no less than 6 eggs,allowing for the US Postrashal Office to ruin 1-2,possibly more,,and expect or only hope for 2-3 to hatch out of the six.

 

[Phage]

First chick of the year is just out

A white, and the java next to it has pipped/is unzipping. It is day 26/27 in California.
What is amazing is the power went out for about 12 hours at day 14 and all the eggs continued to develop, but are starting to hatch about 12 hours later than would be expected. They usually hatch during day 26 here. Hopefully they will all still hatch.

Edited to say JAVA IS OUT TOO!!!!

 

[poultryfan73]

Congratz!!! I just hope I can get one to hatch

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

Woohoo!!

My three pea eggs didn't hatch.

Major Bummer...hope I can get somemore eggs from my friend sometime.

~ Aspen

 

[SunBaked]

One of the 3 eggs I set for this thread wasn't fertile but 2 are developing nicely. I only saw one moving around but wow was it going crazy. Hope it hatches out okay. I have 1 egg due this weekend. The egg was full of chick but I didn't see it move so I hope it's alive.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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Hope it hatches!

~ Aspen

 

[SunBaked]

I had a horrible day

Before bed last night I raised the incubator temp just a bit cause it was at 98 and hubby didn't know I had raised it and he raised it also. Woke up to incubator temp of 104. I don't know how long it was that high. First time we ever had the temp spike. Spent the whole day at work worrying about it

I hope we didn't kill the eggs, there are only six but they are my first pea eggs. Trying to decide if we should candle them to see if they move, just candled them 2 days ago and worried about over candling them..... so sad

 

[Phage]

I would go check them out then you may know either way, especially if you see movement.
Power went out on mine for 12 hours, and I still got 2 chicks out of 5 eggs, so it may be OK.

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[Barrdwing]

Our best momma, Pea, hatched out five babies on the 3rd. When she left the nest, I realized that some of the other peahens had decided to cash in on the free daycare: there were four more eggs in that nest than Pea had started out with! The incubator was all warmed up for some chicken eggs, so I put the four pea eggs in there. Now I'm on tenterhooks, waiting to see what happens.

Two of the eggs looked like they were halfway through development; I candled them again yesterday (day four in the incubator) and saw movement. The other two are a lot newer; there's a web of blood vessels about the size of a silver dollar in each. So wow, we have activity. If any of these hatch I will be thrilled. Every year this kind of thing happens to Pea, and it's just torn me up to see the abandoned eggs even though I know that she's not a chicken and she can't stay on that nest. Sure would be nice to not have eggy tragedy yet again.

Does anybody else have their peahens laying eggs all over the yard? There must be thirty eggs out there! Like a fool, I left them lie, but now I think I should have at least picked up the ones that weren't in a scrape. It's awfully weird that of five hens of laying age, only three actually chose nest sites. The rest . . . egg-bombs everywhere.