Pea Eggs Scheduled to Hatch?

[kuntrygirl]

Nothing on this end yet. WIth my luck all of the eggs are probably not fertile. :/ We'll see how the weekend goes. :/

 

[zazouse]

Fresh out of the Brinsea,,Zazouse these are 4u!!

I am in love

they are soo soo beautiful!!!!

 

[frenchblackcopper]

Zazouse,,have 5 more bssp eggs due in about 5 more days,,,be a lot of yellow birds in my dining room brooder box! I was hoping the pic would make your day.The middle one in those pics was so tired it kept falling alseep with it's head hanging down.I have to relocate about 15 chicks in the brooder box to make room for these 3 newbies today.It's Peacock heaven here now.Overrun with peas!! But still could easily handle a lot more of them. Now the feed bill may be another thing.

 

[new 2 pfowl]

Congrats fsb, those guys are so cute!

Keep up the excellent work! (you and the little guys who have to do all of the pipping)

 

[peafowlmom]

Great job! They are gorgeous!!!

 

[new 2 pfowl]

Hey fbc,
I never thought to ask this before, but you have your peas separated by color, right?
Is there some reason you don't let the gals hatch their own eggs (= would be a lot easier than if you have to do it!!!)?
Just wondering, maybe you have mentioned this before...

Edited to add:
Sorry fbc! I must have been dozing.
Unless you are a member of the The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB)???

 

[frenchblackcopper]

Who's fsb?? Whats an FSB? Now why would I let my hens sit on maybe 3-4 eggs and stop laying for the rest of the season? Very unproductive and costly feed wise to allow a hen to hatch out a few peachicks in a years time when if she is not allowed to sit she keeps laying.My 2 Opal B/S hens laid a total of 36 eggs in the month of May,,if allowed to set on them in early May that would have cut egg count down to nothing for the rest of that month.My incubator is much more reliable than a 2 year old unproven broody peahen. If you take a value per egg laid that money can buy a very nice incubator in a very short time if the hens are not allowed to set,and keep laying while eggs are put in the bator. This is still a "Hobby" in the sense that all my expenses so far for building and buying some adults did not come from a savings account or a bank loan.Like everyone else I went thru the 2 year wait and see until birds was old enough to start breeding so now it's time to get back some of that 2 yr feed expense. 3-6 peachicks hatched by 1 peahen all season,,or 20 or more peachicks hatched in my bator by the same hen all season long,,,guess it all matters if you don't care about hatching or getting anything in return for your expenditures,,I'm at the point now it's time something starts coming back instead of always going out for the past 2 years.

 

[peafowlmom]

My free-range hen has been missing a few days. I heard her yesterday on my neighbors property but didn't get permission to go on it til dark. My son and I will go looking soon he has to finish some chores first. I pray we find her I will take her eggs. I doubt they are even fertile. our male's trains have been gone for weeks!

 

[new 2 pfowl]

Hello fbc,
Sorry about that typo!

Thanks for the explanation, it certainly makes sense.
I hope that you are at the point where something starts coming back, considering all of the hard work that you clearly put into it.

 

[frenchblackcopper]

Zazouse,,here is a outside pic update from the same 3 BSSP chicks I uploaded back at post 438,,if you look close the two chicks on the left are already showing rust color in their wing feathers,and the one on the right is still all white on every wing feather.I'm guessing here but sure the two on the left will be hens,,that already have rust color showing,,and the one on the right will be a male BSSP or an all white chick.They are now 3 days old and already a very noticable color change is occuring.They are by far the tamest,most inquisitve,people loving peas I've hatched all summer.Maybe it's because it's only these 3 on the dining room brooder box along with a last hatched Midnight B/S,,? I also know the parents of these chicks was spoiled very rotten at Bigcreekpoultry before they came to Pea Palace in late May.Never have I had an adult peahen voluntarily fly and land on my arm to eat a piece of bread (and this peahen was not hatched here and has only been used to me for maybe 3 months tops).