Lost little peas before/during hatch...help!

[Peanut59]

Our first time trying to hatch peas. We put 3 eggs in a Brinsea mini advance incubator, temp. set at 99.6, turn every 180 minutes, kept reservoir with water (doesn't give humidity reading), and added 2 more eggs a few days into incubation. We moved the first 3 eggs to my Hovabator Genesis incubator for lockdown, keeping the 2 eggs in the Brinsea. We kept temperature at 99.6 and humidity about 65-70%. One egg pipped, but the chick died. The other 2 eggs did not pip. Both eggs had chicks, one almost fully developed and the other was quite a bit smaller. The 4th egg, due tomorrow is in lockdown in the Genesis now. We will leave the last egg in the Brinsea, due to hatch in another week. What happened?? What should we do next time??

 

[frenchblackcopper]

Thats the million $$ question.It could have been the feed the parent birds was eating.Could have been the protein levels were not high enough.Few of us here can say we have a 90% hatch rate on their entire flock.I doubt anyone here can.I would say in the best flocks maybe 75% hatch rate is excellent.Shipped eggs that drops to maybe 20%. Did you own the parents the eggs came from,or did you buy them and have them shipped?
You have now entered the "abyss" of the Peafowl community,,the problem everyone has faced yet noone has a definate answer.Mother natures way of weeding out the weak? Using an incubator vs. a broody hen can equal the same results.

 

[Peanut59]

We have the parents. The hen is 2 years old, and these are the only eggs that she has laid since we got her about 6 weeks ago. We don't know the actual age of the male. He has a longer tail with eyes. We're guessing about 3 years old.