PEAFOWL MAY/JUNE HATCH ALONG!!!!! COME JOIN THE OBSESSION!

[zazouse]

Oh and i have a bator full of eggs left to hatch still be glade when that is over too.

 

[PlatteRiverPs]

I'm ready for everything to be over also.

I lost a baby overnight. It was odd, I could see it had pipped the air cell yesterday so I gave it 12 hours. I chipped away a bit of shell and couldn't see its beak. It ripped the membrane with its foot or something and was positioned upside down. I chipped away until I thought it could untuck its head and put it back to rest. Didn't help.

2nd chick is out and looks pretty good.

 

[casportpony]

Sorry for your loss.

 

[frenchblackcopper]

95% of the battle raising peafowl is getting them to actually hatch. This discourages many very early on but in time tweaking this, and adjusting that and keeping very detailed records helps. Over the past few years I've experienced many new peachicks hatch with curled toes. Out of all the peachicks we've hatched so far this spring only one had to be taped and I'm sure they would have been fine in another day,but why risk it? My "quitters" rate is close to 15% better than last year due to making feed adjustments with higher protein levels on some colors. But my Midnight b/s pen has been amazing. The fertility rate on this pen of 4 hens and the actual hatchrate is right at 90% starting from the first eggs they laid. I'm currently overrun with Midnight b/s peachicks. Had 6 of this pens eggs due to hatch this past weekend and everyone of them hatched. And it doesn't take them 2 days or more from pip to hatch,,these chicks pip and were all out within about 12 hours time.

 

[BYC-user-174785]

I have never had a chick hatch with curled toes. I only had a cause with a splayed leg. This questions can be answered by anyone, but this is more towards frenchblackcopper. Are color mutations of IB weaker when it comes to hatching and take a longer amount of time?

 

[Raven1]

I have never had any luck hatching. This year has only yielded 2 chicks one of which was killed, so 1. I am doing everthing I know how but still they quit usually not long before hatch most are fully formed. I hatch chicken eggs with no problem mostly Marans and they are tuff for some,but these are making me pull my hair out!!

 

[Raven1]

Sorry double post

 

[frenchblackcopper]

Blue Creek, first off only on one occasion has it taken 28 days for any of my peacock eggs to hatch. And the time it did happen was once we lost power for over 6 hrs. This year mine for the most part pip around day 24-25 and are out by the next day. About the same as last year. But by the 28th day my chicks are hatched and fluffy and out of the hatcher.
I don't and won't own green species of peafowl so all my peas are genetic mutations from IB. I'm once again fighting the dreaded Charcoals at Pea Palace. This color is a constant struggle here and although I know the issues associated with this color mutation as far as premature aging, reproduction is an issue here. My male is 3 years old and the fertility rate is less than 50% and quitters with this color is at 100% so far. I'm just hoping my male is like his father was, and that is once he gets another year older I will start to get consistant fertile eggs that indeed hatch. This color really hurts my statistics of the entire flock in terms of everything except number of eggs laid by the hens. Cameo is another color I'm having issues with but this trio was new this spring and are supposed to be 3 years old but the hens egg size looks much more like a 1 year olds. I know next year the Cameos will improve but I'm still in doubt about my Charcoals.

 

[zazouse]

Mine pip and hatch on the 27th and 28th but yesterday I locked down a batch and when I was filling up the reservoir I noticed one piped already and it is day 25

 

[BYC-user-174785]

Aren't all of your eggs hatched in an incubator? Over here I use broody chickens, and this year I let a peahen incubate her own eggs. The thing that made me think that the color mutations are weaker and take longer is that when my peachicks from my more common colors were hatching, they externally pipped on day 27 and were dry and out by day 28. With the bronze peachicks, they internally pipped on day 28 and they could not externally pip for a whole day. It was on day 29 that holes had to be made in the egg for the chicks to just have to push out of the shell. When holes had to be made, it seemed like the shell was really hard since the hen cannot really increase the humidity...They were out and dry by day 30. In two days, I have 6 (i think) peachicks supposed to hatch. One bronze egg was moved to a little giant incubator that will be imprinted. I am wondering that if with increased humidity it will hatch timely. Four of the eggs are from my peafowl. One bronze egg is still under a broody hen, so I will have to see how that one does compared to the one in the incubator.