peafowl eggs hatching

[old commando]

my peafowl are hatching m i am so nervous , 9 eggs shipped in , day 28 99.6 F 60% humidity , one of them was out the shell before i locked down , had its little leg caught , i think i freed it ok. pretty much dried out m under the red light , dipped beak , it sipped , not jumping around but only out the shell a day or 2 , another one hatched ,, 7 eggs no pip . no unpleasant odor . there is a 6 week golden pheasant in the room with them sure is looking around hearing the peeping , i will try to keep you posted

 

[sourland]

Good luck for more peafowl chicks. Keep us updated.

 

[KsKingBee]

What di you see when you candled the eggs?

 

[SouthernParadise]

Have the others internally pipped? What does the air cell look like? I usually don’t “lock down” until I see a good portion of the chicks head moving around in the air cell. This year all my chicks hatched at day 26/27. Keep us posted

 

[old commando]

candling above my skill level just now lost #2 no pipin day 29

 

[KsKingBee]

Pea eggs are one of the most difficult eggs to hatch, and being shipped makes it even harder. Shipping will lower the number of eggs that will develop because of the rough handling and vibration they endure in transit. To be successful you are going to need to know how to observe the internal development of the eggs.

 

[Artistickatt]

Pea eggs are one of the most difficult eggs to hatch, and being shipped makes it even harder. Shipping will lower the number of eggs that will develop because of the rough handling and vibration they endure in transit. To be successful you are going to need to know how to observe the internal development of the eggs.

This was the advice I got too. I started with 7 and only hatched two. Candling really helped me out a lot. If I do this again, I know what to look for. Although I have no idea how I would have identified the internal pip from what I saw at lockdown. Two of my eggs were chirping at me and coincidentally they were the two that hatched healthy. The one that was moving at lockdown, pipped but didn’t zip never made a sound, and didn’t survive.

7 to 2 is a good percentage that survived seeing mine with mailed, got stuck an extra day in transit in rather warm temperatures. I lost 4 by day 10 of incubation.