Peafowl for 2013

[casportpony]

Awwwwwwww. Poor baby. What are you going to do?

This is the fourth one like this and they get better in 24 hours if you make a little nest/donut for them. Seems like the ones from larger eggs are more likely to do this. Egg weight when laid was 110 grams, chick weighs 74 grams.

-Kathy

 

[zazouse]

This is the fourth one like this and they get better in 24 hours if you make a little nest/donut for them. Seems like the ones from larger eggs are more likely to do this. Egg weight when laid was 110 grams, chick weighs 74 grams.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Here it is at 6pm.



-Kathy

 

[new 2 pfowl]

Such a cute guy!

 

[zazouse]

I love babies

 

[Trefoil]

Well we can all uncross our fingers on the hatch. I have royally screwed up. SO I wake up and notice that my calendar on my phone pops up with a reminder. So I take a look to see. I was devastated when I saw a reminder to put pea eggs on lockdown TODAY!!!!! They have been on lockdown since SATURDAY!!!!!!! I had an entry on my calendar that said pea eggs lockdown SATURDAY. So I had 2 lockdown dates!!! NOOOOOOOOO!!! I went back to check the dates and recount and the Saturday date was wrong. I am sooooooooo angry!!! I messed this up. I am ready to throw the eggs away, unplug the incubator, clean it up and put it away. I'm done!

But I won't. I'll see this thru and see what happens but I dont see them hatching. 3 days of not being turned. No way they will hatch. They are all probably stuck to the shell. I am so mad that I could bite a nail

One of the speakers at last yrs or the yr befores' guinea fowl extravaganza told us that turning the eggs (of guineas at least) was optional after 13 days.

 

[casportpony]

The chick in egg #76 got shrink-wrapped and died before it could pip internally. But egg #75 is starting to zip, so I think it will be
fine.

-Kathy

 

[kuntrygirl]

Sorry to hear about egg #76.

I think I heard pipping last night in my 5. Not sure. I didn't candle, so I don't even know if they are fertile. If they are not fertile, I will NOT be disappointed. I will be happy with my 1 lonely pea. Well, it's really not lonely because it will have it's bator mates. I had put about 7 chicken eggs with the pea eggs and all of the chicken eggs hatched.

 

[kuntrygirl]

Well we can all uncross our fingers on the hatch. I have royally screwed up. SO I wake up and notice that my calendar on my phone pops up with a reminder. So I take a look to see. I was devastated when I saw a reminder to put pea eggs on lockdown TODAY!!!!! They have been on lockdown since SATURDAY!!!!!!! I had an entry on my calendar that said pea eggs lockdown SATURDAY. So I had 2 lockdown dates!!! NOOOOOOOOO!!! I went back to check the dates and recount and the Saturday date was wrong. I am sooooooooo angry!!! I messed this up. I am ready to throw the eggs away, unplug the incubator, clean it up and put it away. I'm done!


But I won't. I'll see this thru and see what happens but I dont see them hatching. 3 days of not being turned. No way they will hatch. They are all probably stuck to the shell. I am so mad that I could bite a nail

One of the speakers at last yrs or the yr befores' guinea fowl extravaganza told us that turning the eggs (of guineas at least) was optional after 13 days.

This is great information to know. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Trefoil]

Kathy- what do you keep your humidity at during incubation, and lockdown? Everybody?