Peafowl for 2013

[casportpony]

Ya know, we could just start eating their eggs, right?

-Kathy

 

[kuntrygirl]

Ya know, we could just start eating their eggs, right?

-Kathy

Yea but I have enough eggs already to eat.

No one in my area can seem to hatch the pea eggs. I have had a few people buy eggs and they have hatched NADA!! I don't know what they are doing wrong but they just can't hatch them. They are wasting a LOT of money. One guy bought $100.00 worth of egg and couldn't get any to hatch. They were all fully developed.

 

[casportpony]

Chick number 20 (egg # 61) is out!

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Chick number 21 (egg #58) is out!

-Kathy

 

[BYC-user-174785]

Congrats! To answer your question about fertility after a peacock drops his train, I did ask a peafowl breeder a while ago and he said they are like chickens. The peahens can store the peacock's sperm for around 2 weeks to a month, and that is also a similar range for long a peacock will remain fertile after molting his train. I may have wrong estimations, but that is what I was told and it may give you at least an idea about fertility.

 

[kuntrygirl]

Congrats!  To answer your question about fertility after a peacock drops his train, I did ask a peafowl breeder a while ago and he said they are like chickens.  The peahens can store the peacock's sperm for around 2 weeks to a month, and that is also a similar range for long a peacock will remain fertile after molting his train.  I may have  wrong estimations, but that is what I was told and it may give you at least an idea about fertility.  

CRAP! Then that means my pea's eggs are fertile.

Thanks for posting this information.

 

[kuntrygirl]

Congrats Kathy !!!!!!!!! e

 

[BYC-user-174785]

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Your welcome. But that does not guarantee that they are fertile, it just means there is a good chance that they are!

 

[casportpony]

Congrats!  To answer your question about fertility after a peacock drops his train, I did ask a peafowl breeder a while ago and he said they are like chickens.  The peahens can store the peacock's sperm for around 2 weeks to a month, and that is also a similar range for long a peacock will remain fertile after molting his train.  I may have  wrong estimations, but that is what I was told and it may give you at least an idea about fertility.  

Lol, I was afraid it would be something like that. Thanks for the info!

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

With a little assistance, chick #22 (egg 57) is out.

-Kathy