Peafowl eggs and candling reposted here

[KsKingBee]

Make sure you sterilize your incubator and give it plenty of time to air out before you put new eggs in it! You don't want bad bacteria from this batch to transfer to the new ones and kill them. I assume you are always washing your hands before you touch the eggs, and that you know not to have lotion on your hands when you handle them.

Also, you may want to tinker with the heat a bit, so you can run it just a hair warmer next time.

If you know anyone there in Australia who hatches, it would be great to talk to them and see what has worked for them down there.

You learned a lot about candling, that will be easier next time. If you can fix a way for your torch to seal up against the egg (sometimes there's a rubber ring), you will be able to see better.

So sorry, better luck next time

He may have to set his turner to go the opposite direction than ours.

 

[Garden Peas]

this lot was, about a 20 min drive away

I'm pretty ridiculously picky about stupid stuff, but I would make sure they were cushioned with towels on the trip and that I tried to maintain whatever temperature they were at when you picked them up ... unless they are chilled, in which case you could let them start warming up. I would make sure there weren't any air conditioning vents blowing on the eggs and that they didn't get bumped around. It's small stuff, but maybe it will help them not get too shaken up on the trip.

The most recent batch of eggs that were shipped to me had ruptured air cells... they were pretty much scrambled eggs when they got here. But I have hatched chicks from shipped eggs too... it's a roll of the dice every time.

 

[Garden Peas]

He may have to set his turner to go the opposite direction than ours.

Hey @KsKingBee maybe you could go down there and help him get it set up?

Actually, I've wondering about the turner... I couldn't use one in my h3llbator because it put the eggs too close to the heating element. I haven't tried one in the new bator. My concern would be if it puts the eggs too close to a heating element, the eggs can get too hot and unevenly warmed. Gruber, do the instructions for your bator say that the turner will work for goose eggs?

 

[Gruber12]

 

[KsKingBee]

Hey @KsKingBee maybe you could go down there and help him get it set up?

Actually, I've wondering about the turner... I couldn't use one in my h3llbator because it put the eggs too close to the heating element. I haven't tried one in the new bator. My concern would be if it puts the eggs too close to a heating element, the eggs can get too hot and unevenly warmed. Gruber, do the instructions for your bator say that the turner will work for goose eggs?

Do you know what editing your post as I am quoting you does to the editor?

OK, I'll start over. Gruber, some people prefer to lay the pea eggs on their side in the turner and then rotate them end for end once per day. You will need to fashion a cage to your turner rack but it will get the egg further from the heating element and hold the egg in a more normal incubating position. You will still have to play mother hen and flip them over once or twice a day but you may increase the hatch rate.

 

[thndrdancr]

Gruber

Did you open that first egg you took a picture of, or any of them? To me that one looked like it at least developed all the way.

I like to see what happed, but it's a risk for opening a stink bomb.
All that you took pics of look like they stopped halfway or didn't develop at all, except that first pic. After candling a lot, you pic up on the skill after a while.

It's real hard at first though, I know I was like "ok, that's a blob. And there is another blob"

I never had a good enough bator to hatch pea eggs, Iso I use my chickens. Only thing is they will push them out as they hatch, so I have to wTch t hatching time. My chickens are weird, they will raise them but they won't cover them at hatch.

 

[Garden Peas]

Do you know what editing your post as I am quoting you does to the editor?

OK, I'll start over. Gruber, some people prefer to lay the pea eggs on their side in the turner and then rotate them end for end once per day. You will need to fashion a cage to your turner rack but it will get the egg further from the heating element and hold the egg in a more normal incubating position. You will still have to play mother hen and flip them over once or twice a day but you may increase the hatch rate.

oopsies. (I've actually found several ways to foul up the editor, there should be an award...)

Ok, so does this mean you aren't going to Australia to help him out?

 

[Gruber12]

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no idea

its a jn12 egg incubator

 

[KsKingBee]

oopsies. (I've actually found several ways to foul up the editor, there should be an award...)

Ok, so does this mean you aren't going to Australia to help him out?

Oh, I love to go 'down under',

, send me a ticket? Preferably not one way...

 

[Garden Peas]

no idea

its a jn12 egg incubator

I was just wondering... one of my bators (the h3llbator) actually said, don't hatch goose eggs with a turner... well it actually said, "not recommended," which basically meant, if you want hatched eggs don't use it, cause you will have cooked eggs if you do...