Peafowl for 2013

[msmolly]

We've had so much rain this spring that I had to put a patio umbrella up, inside the chicken run, to protect the feeders and dust bath. I also have a tarp over top of a corner of the run, and that is where my hen keeps her babies since they hatched. My pen has flooded in the past, so I had to build up the floor with hardwood mulch(woodchips), and its worked really well.

 

[chickendeal]

Minx I have one or two young hens (2 yr old) hens that will lay an egg in the rain, the rest won't. Rain screws up my schedules LOL In my charcoal pen I have 2 hens one lays on odd days the other even. When it rains I end up getting eggs from both hens the same day after the rain stops. Then one doesn't lay for 3 days so she is back on schedule like she knows LOL. I was told it has to do with the low front coming through. Today it rained and I should've gotten 6 eggs but I got 2. Tomorrow I will get eggs from everyone except those 2 hens. Then my hens who lay on even days will not lay for 3 days to get them back on track. Sounds strange but it is true. I write the date the egg is laid on everyone. I can look at the eggs and tell you what days we had bad weather LOL

Chickendeal
When the hen starts laying her first egg or two she doesn't do it on cycle. She can miss a week then start laying regularly. For me rain or a heat wave will trow the hens off schedule. Heat waves are the worst cause most of my hens will stop completely until the heat wave passes.

thank you so much I was thinking that all the rain and now the heat that makes it so hot and steamy right now had made everything stop for the season I have a wellsummer that has laid everyday even on christmas we had a mild winter here it only snowed 3 times the last time the middle of may a week after it was 80 degrees and the week before was in the high 70s. Missouri weather if you don't like it wait a few hours it will change ugh but my wellsummer has stopped laying as well so here is looking forword to a real cycle of eggs she is a ib so she should lay every other day or every three days right??

 

[AugeredIn]

2013 chick. Dont take too many photos so I thought I would share.

 

[new 2 pfowl]

Very very cute chick there...

 

[casportpony]

Great pictures, everyone!

-Kathy

 

[Momhunter]

After only getting 1 live chick from my first eggs set, I now have 4 hatched and 1 zipping out of the 15 eggs in the hatcher!! Can't stop checking the incubator!!

 

[MinxFox]

2013 chick. Dont take too many photos so I thought I would share.

I really love the markings on that peachick. I am excited to breed my pied peahen to my white peacock next year. I have been wanting to breed my own pieds for a long time now. (I know you said in the other topic this is a silver pied but it makes me think about pieds!)

 

[casportpony]

After only getting 1 live chick from my first eggs set, I now have 4 hatched and 1 zipping out of the 15 eggs in the hatcher!! Can't stop checking the incubator!!

Update?

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Thought I was going to get five live chicks, but the smallest one looked like it lost too much moisture and was probably already shrink wrapped when it pipped. I candle it when it piped and there was a huge air cell, but I could still see lots of veining around the chick, so I left it alone for 28 hours. When I opened the very small pip I could see that the chick was shrink wrapped and there was still lots of blood, so I put a small amount of saline on the membrane, drained off the excess and put it back under mama. When I checked it two hours later, it was dead. Of course I had to inspect it and it had not absorbed it's yolk.

Good news is that the other four that hatched yesterday and this morning are fine.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Here are the four that hatched 6-8, numbers 5,7,11 and 9.



-Kathy