need Advice incubating Peafowl eggs

[AngryRWH]

ok, I will try I havent heard the chirp from inside yet jut tapping noise.

 

[AngryRWH]

No chirpping from inside . Candling shows some blood vessels tiny amount near air cell and the shadow of the chick moving around.the air cell has not dropped yet. I think all is good. I will wait for a internal chirpping

 

[DylansMom]

I am thinking maybe it isn't quite at the internal pip stage yet. I usually don't see any vessels anymore when they are that far along. The little scratching and clicking noises can be heard before any chirping or peeping starts.

 

[AngryRWH]

That scratchy noise scared me. I have never candled the quail eggs I found in the yard ,I always waited for chirping noise within the egg , this is my first time with peafowl eggs. thanks so much for taking time to explain hatching eggs.

 

[sseabass]

 
24 hrs ago one egg started internally pipping, The eggs are moved  in another havabator 99.8 and 75% humidity, 2 vents open. No external pip on that egg that internally pipped. should I be worried? did it die? please let me know! Eggs candled looked good. can I open the incubator and check on this egg?

​I would pull it out and put it up to my ear. Make some peeping noises at it and tap with you fingernail over the air cell, if it peeps back put a small air hole in for it. This will buy it another 24 hrs to start unzipping. After they pip internally they only have about 24 hours worth of oxygen to make the external pip.

I lost my last Peachick in the shell and I hadn't learned about BYC. If I had, I would have drilled a hole. I gave it 4 extra days, don't know if this is too much or too little, and then gave up. When I op n d the egg, it look d fully form d but I didn't really check it for things that I have read about since then.
The other three hatched out quickly together. I did lose one of them on day 3. but I feel that if I had found BYC before she started failing, that I would have had a good chance of saving her.
Good luck with your hatch. You are lucky to have found BYC.
seabass

 

[barkerg]

I lost my last Peachick in the shell and I hadn't learned about BYC. If I had, I would have drilled a hole. I gave it 4 extra days, don't know if this is too much or too little, and then gave up. When I op n d the egg, it look d fully form d but I didn't really check it for things that I have read about since then.
The other three hatched out quickly together. I did lose one of them on day 3. but I feel that if I had found BYC before she started failing, that I would have had a good chance of saving her.
Good luck with your hatch. You are lucky to have found BYC.
seabass

If you FB heres our page it has a tutorial on assisted hatching.
https://www.facebook.com/bobsgreenpeafowl/

Gerald Barker

 

[AngryRWH]

Update on the two eggs: put up to my ear a constant clicking noise which stopped two days after being put at 80% humidity. After that silence eggs five days overdue. Day 5 of overdue my egg candler arrives I look inside no movement no drawdown of air sack . I opened the eggs to see the membrane never punctured . Heads still tucked under wing. So heartbreaking. I have 7 more eggs waiting to hatch over the next 20 days l lowered the humidity to 50% for the 24 day incubator and for the second incubator I will use 65%. Yesterday I did a hatch assist on a peababy after 24 hr internal drawdown pip as it was too weak to get out of shell. That one also made this constant click noise in shell prior to internal pip. It is still making the click noise I think it will die. I must figure out the proper incubation or the last 7 eggs are doomed.

 

[AngryRWH]

I now have a real candler before I candled with a flashlight. I can see pretty good inside the eggs now all eggs show good development and movement. I have an egg now 22 days old almost filling up entire shell, few blood vessels can be seen, I don't want to mess this hatch up so any advice is appreciated!

 

[casportpony]

I now have a real candler before I candled with a flashlight. I can see pretty good inside the eggs now all eggs show good development and movement. I have an egg now 22 days old almost filling up entire shell, few blood vessels can be seen, I don't want to mess this hatch up so any advice is appreciated!

How big is the air cell?

-Kathy

 

[Ballyhoo]

What Ho Chums,

I have been reading this thread with great interest as it is quite close to a potential problem I have at the moment. (I hope you don't mind me asking another question using this thread)

I have three eggs on the go at the moment, but I have committed the foulest of foul errors, I forgot to note the day they were started. Its either the 30th June/1st July or the 7th ish. I have candled them using a rather primitive method - toilet roll on a torch - and it shows a small aircell at the base of the egg in all three, the rest of the egg is dark. The question is, do I stop 'rocking' them in the incubator and lay them on their sides, or, continue for a few more days and re-assess?

Cheers! Mark