Please tell me how to hatch peacocks!

[chickenzoo]

Hatching peacocks is a lot like hatching turkeys. I have hatched them in a Hova or an LG before, although a little more difficult. Best is under a turkey, but you have a good bator.

, I kept temps and humidity the same as for the chickens.
When they hatch you have to teach them to eat, unlike chicks. I die their starter with green and red food coloring and place a chick or two w/ them to teach them to eat. They can be delicate, so if you are keeping them for any length of time after hatching I'd get my times worth out of it. I know standard Indian blue chicks start about $35 here and often sell for 440 or so up to $60 or more for colored chicks.

 

[KattyKillFish]

yeah i agree on the difficulty level thing too. some eggs are harder to hatch or have low fertility.

appearently, this is a peacock egg... they are supposed to be similar in size to turkey eggs.

 

[LilRalphieRoosmama]

OMG those are big eggs!!!!

I don't have trays anywhere NEAR big enough for those! Can't believe you have to teach them to eat?? Well, hatch and GO...if they even email me back. If not, I'll stick with chickens and quail

Holy moly those are big eggs.

 

[Bettacreek]

The only thing with this is that the guy is bringing her the eggs. He either has to feed his flock, or he had to purchase the eggs, so that cost money in the first place. It's a little different hatching someone else's eggs, when compared to hatching your own eggs and selling the offspring. You just need to cover incubation fees, not the fees for producing the eggs yourself. So, that's why I would check to see how much of a PITA they would be to hatch, as incubation/hatch work is really only that you should be charging him for, not for the actual chicks, since he's supplying them.

 

[Bettacreek]

Here we go...
http://www.thefeatheredegg.com/catalog/item/4295640/5182636.htm

 

[KattyKillFish]

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dying to food is a really great idea! i should try that with my quails, they need to be taught as well... the button quail anyhow. i've always found it rather difficult, but never lost a chick of any kind to this day!

 

[LilRalphieRoosmama]

Katty your pic didn't work...

They said their hen isn't a good mother but will be laying soon, so that's why they are trying to find someone to incubate them. I wouldn't mind as long as I was able to do it - at the same temp and humidity as my other eggs - but they seem waaaay to big and how would I do that on the auto turners? Do you need those basket ones? I'm not willing to buy those but DBF could probably build some sort of holder out of wood blocks...always thinking!!!

 

[Bettacreek]

If he's maybe giving you a ton of eggs, can you buy a goose turner? Sounds like they're not too much smaller than goose eggs, so they might fit, depending on how the trays are, kind of like putting banty eggs in a regular chicken turner on the hovabators (I'm only familiar with the hova turner, lol).

 

[LilRalphieRoosmama]

Hmmm....buy goose racks, hatch peacocks...then progress to goose eggs!!!! Always a possibility...brain is spinning...

 

[monarc23]

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just wanna put my two cents in here. When I hatch for someone its either eggs I bought or eggs they bought. If its eggs I bought all they pay is per chick (normally $1 per chick *chicken chick*) Quail same thing except I charge $1.50 each for them at hatching (my quail are more valuable to me than layer chickens in my personal/emotionalness lol).

Now if they want me to order eggs fro them all i charge is whatever the eggs cost from the breeder (or they bring he eggs to me and ofcourse theres no fee they got the eggs themselves).

I charge no incubation fee, and I only charge per chick always.

Now lets say I hatch BC marans in the future and have excess chicks to sell (more than likely i wont sell any chicks) but if i did, ofcourse they'd cost more as they ar ea more valuable bird. However if someone sent me their BC marans to hatch i'd probably charge like $5 per chick, or ask for a few chicks to keep myself. Theres still a value thing IMO so I price according to what they are and how long they incubate even though i really do not charge for incubation.

My fees are normally

$1-1.50 but could be as much as $5 no more though unless i bought the eggs myself.