Those who need help in sexing peafowl

[DylansMom]

In all seriousness I would like to express a couple of opinions based upon the wretchedly laughable continuation of this thread:

1. I do believe that lack of protein intake during the laying season can cause the curled feet and toes issue. This is an issue when people collect the eggs and make the hens produce the maximum number of eggs she will produce. We do that. Increasing our protein content last year cured the problem in all but the last 50 or so eggs.

2. Humidity, I believe, or lack thereof, during incubation is the other big cause of curled toes and feet. Not so experienced with this.

3. If anyone thinks that mice cannot exist with peafowl, you need to come down here. There ain't no way on gods green earth that we can get rid of all the mice. I don't lose any peafowl to the mice. Peafowl will kill the mice, however. At one time we used lots of the closed traps. Then we witnessed a peahen killing a mouse. Now we actually flood the underground nests on a regular basis as the only control.

I've got to agree on the mice! We've tried everything we can think of and we cannot keep them out. Our food is stored in custom made steel bins with lids that I can barely lift so it is safe in there, however once the food is in the pen the birds throw it all over the place. The mice then show up to clean up the excess. Our Peas have never shown any inclination to kill or eat mice,( our barn cats don't do a real bang up job either). I cannot beat them...... so I have joined them. Meet Shrimpy, threw him under the brooder light after all the chicks were done for the year, guess I wasn't quite ready to close up shop for the season. He now lives in a condo in my bedroom.
Yes I know it is a sickness, but I can't help it.

 

[frenchblackcopper]

#890 above,,,very funny,yet very inaccurate I will tonight go back and copy-paste your reply about 80 degrees,,,please invite your aunt and get some popcorn with salt and pepper per Yoda. And if your incubation practices are 102 degrees either your hatchrates are terrible or your thermometer is off.99.6 degrees is what temp is under poultry that self incubates their own eggs,but if they were 102 degrees the hen would die from heat stress and dehydration.

 

[Birdrain92]

My incubator is set at 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Under a bird it's around high 80 low 90. They shift the eggs so they will hatch around the same time. All my eggs that get a developed embryo it hatches if no embryo then it doesn't hatch.

 

[casportpony]

Didn't I read something about five eggs to start? Two hatched? Both died? Something ain't right..

-Kathy

 

[Birdrain92]

If you think you can get rid of mice completely then you must be crazy. Once the food gets to the birds then they can find their way to the food.

 

[DylansMom]

My incubator is set at 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Under a bird it's around high 80 low 90. They shift the eggs so they will hatch around the same time. All my eggs that get a developed embryo it hatches if no embryo then it doesn't hatch.

I'm not arguing, just some thoughts here. You said that coco's egg was the only 1 out of 5 that developed and hatched, correct? Would it not be unusual for only 1 egg out of 5 to be fertilized when they came from the same pair and were laid in the same clutch? You also said coco hatched at 24 days, that is very early for a peacock, could a slightly too high incubator temp. have hastened her hatching?

 

[margaret8]

Ok I have heard several different ideas. So ... Which us correct? I have Abrams new incubator. It has auto egg turner, auto humidity ( as long as I keep it full of water) and temp controls. What temp and what humidity do I use

 

[casportpony]

Not to add fuel to the fire, but I think I had a couple hatch at 24 days under a broody and almost all others were 26 or 27 either under broodies or in the incubator. One or two out of five? That set-up needs some tuning and someone needs to hit the books and do his homework.

-Kathy

 

[new 2 pfowl]

All eggs DO_NOT_Have salmonella, and it was the raw egg in the cookie dough that made those people sick.

-Kathy

This statement seems completely clear, but since some choose to misunderstand, may I parse:

Statement 1. All eggs do not have salmonella.
Statement 2. If an egg does have salmonella, it will only make someone sick if they eat it raw; as in raw cookie dough.

 

[casportpony]

Ok I have heard several different ideas. So ... Which us correct? I have Abrams new incubator. It has auto egg turner, auto humidity ( as long as I keep it full of water) and temp controls. What temp and what humidity do I use

I am no expert, but I think the factory recommended setting on my Rcom20 is 99.5. I also have a secondary thermometer/hygrometer made by incubator warehouse. I can't recommend a humidity because I've only used it once on pea eggs.

-Kathy