My Peachicks Of 2013 **Will Have Lots Of Pics**

[Yoda]

Another pic

Very cute pic! Congrats!
All the eggs in my backup incubator are dead. I opened the lid to fill the water and the thermometer said 106.4 I do not know what happened but suspect the cat

She seems to be attracted to that one incubator and I do not know why? She lays on the top of it and goes crazy. I think she might have hit the temperature control a few times. She did it last year and I lost chicken eggs. I moved the incubator upstairs in the spare bedroom and adjusted it and it is now at 99.8 and holding. Lost 20 eggs that were in there about 11 days old

 

[Momhunter]

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Very cute pic! Congrats!
All the eggs in my backup incubator are dead. I opened the lid to fill the water and the thermometer said 106.4 I do not know what happened but suspect the cat She seems to be attracted to that one incubator and I do not know why? She lays on the top of it and goes crazy. I think she might have hit the temperature control a few times. She did it last year and I lost chicken eggs. I moved the incubator upstairs in the spare bedroom and adjusted it and it is now at 99.8 and holding. Lost 20 eggs that were in there about 11 days old 
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That is terrible!! This peachick hatching is so much harder than quail or chickens. My other eggs still haven't don't anything, today was day 28. So I have one out of my first 8 that were laid. Now have a week with nothing due to hatch. Then have a big hatch mid June o the 21 eggs I bought from another breeder. When I candled them at 10 days looked like 19 developing and two clears. My fingers are crossed.
I bought some turkey poults (a week old) that I had been wanting to share a brooder with my single peachick and it seems to be doing well.

 

[Yoda]

I have a question??? can baby pea chicks really get so stressed out by seperating them from their bonded mom that they will die ......

History: I was given a peachick when I bought my eggs along with several other chicken chicks.... I have held it often the first few days, but then did not want it becoming to attached to me so I have tried to hold off with holding it, and it was find, not calling for me too much unless it wanted something... it seems very intellegent..... anyways.....I put it along with the chicks it was with under a broody mom that had just hatched out eggs.... She took them all great.... but the peachick not so much so.... it was 5 days old and at first it sat up under the mom fine and did not leave her for at least 12 hours.....the next morning I noticed that it only kinda was pecking at food (the chicks were going crazy) and it was no longer staying close to the mom.....and then at lunch it was behind the moms next box all by itself.... I have a heat light in with them but not behind the box..... I put it back with the mom and it just seemed depressed... this continued till this morning when I brought it back into the house with one chick for company.... I fed it some bread soaked in water which it ate off my fingers and it seems content now....

could I be overreacting? I do not want it to die! but for the life of me I do not think that it was acting right... it was not getting picked on, but it kept seperating itself even from the chicks it was raised with....

any advice????

Most likely it was the hen pushing it away. Hens don't always peck, they use the wings as well. The peachick in my opinion is worth more then a chicken and I would not risk losing the chick when a brooder indoors is safer. The little one bonded with the chicken chicks and he could not get near them. Keeping a couple in the house with him is the best thing you can do. Loneliness is so despressing to a chick. Remember if you put your peachick on the ground your risk sickness. It can get some nasties just ask Casportpony.

 

[Yoda]

Quote: What are your settings? When in doubt put in another thermometer just to be sure. Candle them and see how far they are. Remember pea eggs should be on the side not pointy side down. I do not do lockdown, never believed in it cause my birds do not do lockdown. I watched a chicken get off the eggs and one was zipping and she got back on them and rolled them around. I open my incubator everyday to check water and let in fresh air. I also check for pips. If pipped then I place on the floor of the incubator to hatch but I do not raise my humidity cause I still have eggs in there. My chicks hatch no problem. I am also opening the lid to see if any hatched. If an egg shows no sign of life or looks like it quit I will give it a couple days and if it looks the same out it goes. Bad eggs can ruin your hatch, never leave a non fertile or quitter in the incubator. The problem most have is shipped eggs. Shipping can sometimes give you a perfect all egg hatch or none at all. Depends on how they handle the eggs. I always ask for Post Office to Post Office shipping and I will pick up the eggs. Most of the time I got a better hatch this way. No tossing and banging inside a hot delivery truck.
Also check the temp of each shelf, the lower the temp the longer the hatch.

 

[Momhunter]

What are your settings? When in doubt put in another thermometer just to be sure. Candle them and see how far they are. Remember pea eggs should be on the side not pointy side down. I do not do lockdown, never believed in it cause my birds do not do lockdown. I watched a chicken get off the eggs and one was zipping and she got back on them and rolled them around. I open my incubator everyday to check water and let in fresh air. I also check for pips. If pipped then I place on the floor of the incubator to hatch but I do not raise my humidity cause I still have eggs in there. My chicks hatch no problem. I am also opening the lid to see if any hatched. If an egg shows no sign of life or looks like it quit I will give it a couple days and if it looks the same out it goes. Bad eggs can ruin your hatch, never leave a non fertile or quitter in the incubator. The problem most have is shipped eggs. Shipping can sometimes give you a perfect all egg hatch or none at all. Depends on how they handle the eggs. I always ask for Post Office to Post Office shipping and I will pick up the eggs. Most of the time I got a better hatch this way. No tossing and banging inside a hot delivery truck.
Also check the temp of each shelf, the lower the temp the longer the hatch.

Maybe I need to open my door daily for fresh air. The digital sportsman is so automatic that I have only been opening to put eggs in once weekly or to put eggs down in the hatching tray, which would be once weekly and to remove the live chicks & unhatched bad eggs. I have auto top off water so don't have to check daily.

 

[Yoda]

Ok I caught the cat on top of my main incubator rolling all over it but she did not hit the tempature controller like she did on my backup one. I lost alnost 20 eggs from her playing on my incubator! Well today I had two hatch. Chick 9 and chick 10 both pieds. Pictures coming as they are drying. Good news, the 2 eggs that survived from my backup incubator are hatching as well. One is pipped and I can hear the other one inside the egg.

 

[Yoda]

Ok here's chick 9. It is a IB pied split charcoal, father Hades - charcoal w/e split silver pied and mother is Aphrodite IB pied

 

[Yoda]

Here's chick 10 IB Pied split charcoal. Again from the same pair as above





And I had this little bugger hatch as well. It is a pheasant but I do not know what kind. The egg was given to me to see if I could hatch it same as peafowl - I guess so! LOL

 

[msmolly]

Wow, very cool, and congrats. Whats a charcoal look like- never heard of that? Cant wait to see what little pheasant turns out to be- always was a sucker for the "surprise-grab bag"!
How many more to hatch? Your cat needs catnip and a heating pad of her own! Good luck.

 

[Yoda]

Wow, very cool, and congrats. Whats a charcoal look like- never heard of that? Cant wait to see what little pheasant turns out to be- always was a sucker for the "surprise-grab bag"!
How many more to hatch? Your cat needs catnip and a heating pad of her own! Good luck.

67 more eggs to hatch and breeding season is still going strong LOL A Charcoal is similar to a bronze except it has no iridescent (shine) on the feathers at all. Charcoal hens do not lay eggs and if they do they are infertile. The only way to breed charcoal is through a split to charcoal hen. Like the chicks above. I should get charcoal, charcoal pied, charcoal white eye, IB pied and possibly whites when these chicks are at breedable age and bred to my charcoal male Apollo in a few years

Here is my Charcoal white eye:

Here is another from Leggs Peafowl Farm: