QUESTIONS on incubating peahen eggs...

[AugeredIn]

......My question is which way do i set the trays ... like do i set them where the eggs are turned side to side or pointy then to the round end.

When we put ours on their sides we turned side to side.

 

[zazouse]

So just being in this position in the turner is all they need, i believe the turner roatatess every 45 minutes, works wonderful for all my other kinds of eggs.

 

[Yoda]

I am going to place some pea eggs in my cabinet bater with auto turner, i found that my goose trays are great for holding the pea eggs in place on their side as i have read a few times that this is better.

My question is which way do i set the trays ... like do i set them where the eggs are turned side to side or pointy then to the round end.

side to side so the chicks are not being pulled down into the pointy end

 

[Frosty]

This will be my first year incubating any type of egg, so I'd love hear what others are doing.

Really?!? Somehow I thought you incubated eggs before! Prepare for the addiction to begin!

There is nothing like when you candle and see the veins forming, then when you candle and see that little life moving around...

 

[casportpony]

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Really?!? Somehow I thought you incubated eggs before! Prepare for the addiction to begin!

There is nothing like when you candle and see the veins forming, then when you candle and see that little life moving around...

I guess I should have been more specific... This will be my first year using an incubator, last year I used turkeys and chickens to hatch my first ever pea eggs, but been doing chickens and ducks for a few years now the "natural" way.

We just finished a test run in our incubator with 11 chicken eggs from two different OEGB hens. Five were not fertile or bad, I can't tell, lol. Locked down on day 18, all pipped the same day and hatched by day 19, including one that pipped at the wrong end. The duck was from a nest outside and looked like it needed more humidity, so I put it in with the chick eggs.

The duck.


The first chick.


The egg with pip at wrong end.

 

[critters]

thanks for the info...

should be seeing a pea egg soon and I can't wait!!

PEA TIME!!

WILL KEEP YOU UPDATED....

 

[johnskoi]

keep notes ... good or bad .. pea eggs can be notoriously tough to hatch (you'll be10 steps ahead if you don't repeat the same mistakes expecting diff results) .. after 3 years of putzing w/ the same bators, i'm STARTING to learn what's working for ME --- not saying it's gonna work for everyone.... diff bators, diff climates, diff sources .... i SHOULD"VE asked (like you're doing) before i set my first pea egg .... hatching chicken eggs in YOUR bator first, MAY help you figure out how to make it work for peas...

 

[critters]

I've been hatching guineas and ducks for years...right now I have chicken eggs in the bator..
just warming up for my guinea season and want those pea eggs badly... can't wait....

 

[johnskoi]

i've got circulating air incubators -- (still air intimidate me too much with peas) -- when i replaced one with a slightly more powerful fan due to a fan failure,it seems to have ended up being a good thing for my pea eggs ---they stay in the higher circ. air inc until lockdown --- hand turning 2-3 times a day, 1/3 to a 1/2 turn one direction one day, the other direction, the next day-- then i put in the factory set fan speeds at a humidity of 65-75 % (increasing as they pip) ... if you've hatched ducks (which i haven't, but i'm assuming they require a higher humidity), i'd think you'll have better luck following the duck-hatching procedure .. that being said, i've hatched 27 of my own this season -- ignoring MY screw-ups, it was a 90+% , if not 95+% hatch rate on the fertile eggs... and YES ...some still required assistance hatching... past seasons, i was lucky if i got a 10-20% hatch

right now, i've got some shipped eggs in there growing nicely, but i'm dealing with the distorted air cell demons (cranking the hum early in hopes it'll help)

.. my 2cents on whats working for me -- i'll see if i have the same luck with the shipped eggs...

 

[zazouse]

side to side so the chicks are not being pulled down into the pointy end

Thank you Yoda that is how i set them, so much confusion for such a little change

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